Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Dec 6 2006 (IPS) – Hopes that the world will finally be able to immunise people against malaria received a shot in the arm, this week, as leading health experts unveiled the blueprint for a preventive vaccine in the Thai capital.
Yet, the architects of this new global strategy the Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap – launched Wednesday at the end of a three-day conference, warn against too much optimism.

Scientific caution was written all over Dr. Carlos Morel, director of the Rio de Janeiro-based Centre for Technological Development in Health. We know a vaccine is possible, but in reality we are still on the floor with blind eyes. This is a failure of science, he told IPS in an interview.

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Pratap Chatterjee*

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 2007 (IPS) – Today, almost four years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq s healthcare system is still a shambles.
While most hospitals lack basic supplies, dozens of incomplete clinics and warehoused high-technology equipment remain as a testament to the U.S. experiment in Iraq.
Today, almost four years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq s healthcare system is still a shambles.

While most hospitals lack basic supplies, dozens of incomplete clinics and warehoused high-technology equipment remain as a testament to the U.S. experiment in Iraq. Meanwhile the hospitals are grappling with an unexpected health crisis the daily toll of bombs and sectarian clashes, which leaves over a hundred dead each day and more seri…

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Claudia Ciobanu

BUCHAREST, Feb 19 2007 (IPS) – About two million of Romania s 22 million people are carrying some form of hepatitis, in the highest infection rates in Europe.
Between 6 to 8 percent suffer from hepatitis B, and between 8 to 12 percent from hepatitis C. Hepatitis is the main cause for hospitalisation.

Hepatitis B is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis C is a more aggressive liver illness transmitted usually through blood transfusion. Hepatitis B can also be transmitted this way, but also more through sexual contact.

Medical reports suggest that most people in Romania got infected during the 1980s because of poor conditions in hospitals and polyclinics and negligent medical practices such as using non-sterile syringes and t…

Mark Weisenmiller

TAMPA, United States, Mar 28 2007 (IPS) – As a nine-member commission prepares to investigate allegations of ineptitude at the United States largest and most prestigious military hospital, politicians in Washington are waiting to see if any more colleagues associated with the scandal will lose their jobs.
Numerous problems at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre including mouse feces, dead cockroaches and mould in the residential outpatient buildings, and an often-numbing level of red tape first came to national attention in February when the Washington Post published a series entitled The Other Walter Reed.

Reporters Anne Hull and Dana Priest spent approximately four months investigating the living conditions and standards of care for soldiers recup…

Joyce Mulama

NAIROBI, Apr 30 2007 (IPS) – With working conditions around the world set to be placed in the spotlight on May Day (May 1), Emily Mugo has an axe to grind about her place of employment in one of Kenya s Export Processing Zones (EPZs).
One has to collapse from sickness to be allowed to seek medical attention. However sick one may be, you cannot afford to miss work: you will be sacked, she noted of the textile factory located on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi.

To the managers it is production, not one s health condition, that matters. Besides, we have to work standing over long hours. This applies to pregnant women too.

Mugo claims that one of her colleagues asked permission to be allowed to work seated while she was pregnant, this after b…

Julio Godoy

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 8 2007 (IPS) – The Group of Eight industrialised countries (G8) agreed to allocate 60 billion dollars in new aid to Africa in the coming years , to beef up the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and to improve primary education across the continent.

G8 working session with Africa representatives. Credit: Federal Government of Germany

But the summit of the heads of government of the G8 (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,…

Aaron Glantz

SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 6 2007 (IPS) – Cody Miranda joined the U.S. Marine Corps when he was 17 years old. He loved the military and hoped to spend his entire career in the service.
Miranda has served more than 16 years in the Marine Corps. Over the years, he s been deployed to the Middle East six times, including stints in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

But when he returned from a tour in Iraq in 2003, his stepmother Jodie Stewart says, he was a changed man.

He always used to be over focused on time as the military trains you to be, she said as an example. He s never on time for anything anymore. I don t know how to explain it to you. How do you explain it when a man who used to behave one way has gone abstractly and profoun…