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MADURAI, May 21 2006 (IPS) – Subhadra Santosham, a retired schoolteacher, was about to turn in for a siesta when she noticed a gang of school children entering her yard. Thinking they were probably trying to solicit money for a cause, she was all ready to shoo them off, when one of them asked: Isn t your granddaughter visiting from Chennai?
Every day, Santosham reads the newspaper and watches TV too. But she had entirely missed the daily ads and TV spots urging people to make sure that all children under five are immunised on May 21, she admitted. She would most likely have missed taking her four-year-old granddaughter to the polio booth between 9am to 4pm.
India s nation-wide 12-year-old Pulse Polio Immunisation (PPI) campaign has enlisted everyone from ic…
Sep 20 2019 – Women Deliver President/CEO Katja Iversen discusses women in leadership and links between sexual and reproductive health and rights and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to advance gender equality with the first female President of Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde.
Katja Iversen: You have had a remarkable career, breaking down barriers as the first woman to hold several and now as President of Ethiopia. How did you find the strength, the power, and the resilience to pursue this pathway to change?
President Sahle-Work Zewde: For me strength, resilience and power are all learned and accumulated over time. The more you know about yourself, excel at th…
Jun 19 2020 – Ms. Amina J. Mohammed is the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Mohammed served as Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria where she steered the country’s efforts on climate action and efforts to protect the natural environment. Ms. Mohammed first joined the United Nations in 2012 as Special Adviser to former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the responsibility for post-2015 development planning. She led the process that resulted in global agreement around the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the creation of the Sustai…
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LONDON, Apr 3 2020 (IPS) – Suppose we wanted to estimate how many car owners there are in the UK and how many of those own a Ford Fiesta, but we only have data on those people who visited Ford car showrooms in the last year. If 10% of the showroom visitors owned a Fiesta, then, because of the bias in the sample, this would certainly overestim…