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Mario de Queiroz

LISBON, Feb 12 2007 (IPS) – It took more than three decades of struggle by activists for Portugal to give the green light, via referendum, to parliament to make the country s strict anti-abortion law more flexible.
In Sunday s referendum, 59 percent of voters responded yes and 41 percent responded no to the question Do you agree with the decriminalisation of abortion if it is performed in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, at the request of the woman, in a legal medical establishment?

Turnout stood at 44 percent of the country s 8.7 million voters.

The vote revoked a 1998 referendum in which voters decided against legalising abortion, in the first attempt to modify the 1984 Portuguese law that makes abortion illegal unless the mother s life is …

Joyce Mulama

NAIROBI, Mar 21 2007 (IPS) – Kenya s capital, Nairobi, takes its name from a Maasai word meaning place of cool waters . In parts of the city, however, this term is less descriptive than ironic as demand for water is outstripping supply.
Kenya s capital, Nairobi, takes its name from a Maasai word meaning place of cool waters . In parts of the city, however, this term is less descriptive than ironic as demand for water is outstripping supply.

The Athi Water Services Board (AWSB), a governmental body that manages water provision in Nairobi and surrounding areas, says demand for water currently stands at 337,487 cubic metres daily, while only 248,000 cubic metres is reaching consumers.

Worse, demand is set to increase to 573, 871 cubic metres per day …

Diego Cevallos* – IPS/IFEJ

MEXICO CITY, Apr 24 2007 (IPS) – Amidst a little pushing and shoving, dozens of girls and boys order fried potatoes, soft drinks, hotdogs and candy at the shop in a private school in Mexico. Similar scenes can be found across Latin America, where junk food sales are strong.

Junk food reigns at snack time. Credit: Photo Stock

But gradually, in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Panama and Mexico, legislative bills or initiatives of governments, cities and parents associations are making inroads in making junk food a little hard…

Ali al-Fadhily*

BAGHDAD, Jun 1 2007 (IPS) – Reports of the poor health among high-ranking Iraqi politicians are being seen as symbolic of the popular mood here about the U.S.-backed government.
In late February, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was flown to neighbouring Jordan for medical treatment amid conflicting reports about his health. Sources in Amman and from Talabani s office in Baghdad told reporters that the 73-year-old had suffered a stroke, but in a televised interview his son said that Talabani was suffering from fatigue or exhaustion.

Meanwhile, Shi ite leader Abdul Azizi al-Hakim, leader of Iraq s largest Shia party, recently arrived in Iran for treatment for lung cancer after being diagnosed at a hospital in the southern U.S. state of Texas.

This…

Christi van der Westhuizen

GENEVA, Jun 30 2007 (IPS) – Only about 30 percent of Mozambicans think that their quality of life has improved since 2000, the year when the international community agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while about 42 percent believe life has not changed.
This emerged in a study conducted by the Mozambique Non-Governmental Organisations Survey Consortium, a group of Mozambican non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which decided to investigate public perceptions of development as defined by the MDGs.

The NGOs include the Mozambican Debt Group and G20, an alliance of 20 organisations involved in the fight against poverty. They were supported by the North-South Institute, a Canada-based development research body.

Researcher…

David Vargas

ASUNCIÓN, Aug 1 2007 (IPS) – A thousand inflated transparent plastic bags labelled Pathological Garbage cover the floor of one of the exhibition rooms at the Juan de Salazar Cultural Centre in the Paraguayan capital.
The bags form part of artist William Paats Asepsia (asepsis) exhibit, which is aimed at drawing attention to the serious problem of hospital waste disposal in this South American country.

The exhibit opened in early July, a year after the government s declaration of a health emergency when the two obsolete incinerators that disposed of the waste generated by the city s public hospitals were closed down.

That coincided with the Asunción city government s decision to cancel the contract with the Sudamericana company, which was in char…

Peter Ischyrion

PORT OF SPAIN, Aug 30 2007 (IPS) – Among the frequently asked questions on the website of the National AIDS Coordinating Committee (NACC) in Trinidad and Tobago is one dealing with the use of condoms in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Can a condom protect me from getting HIV the AIDS virus? YES, used correctly and consistently, condoms are the only available barrier to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. Abstaining from sex is safest, but if one chooses to be sexually active, use a condom each and every time.

Now, having reported significant progress in addressing the rates of HIV/AIDS over the last five years, the Trinidad and Tobago government says it will purchase condom vending machines as one of several initiatives to deal with the virus.

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Alexandra Stahl

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2 2007 (IPS) – A global coalition of governments and organisations has launched a new campaign to drastically improve pre- and post-natal healthcare in places like India, which alone accounts for a staggering 25 percent of the world #39s child deaths and 20 percent of maternal deaths.
Called Deliver Now a reference to the pledge made by 189 world leaders meeting at the United Nations seven years ago to reduce child deaths by two-thirds and maternal deaths by three-quarters by 2015, among other goals it brings together local government agencies, civil society, media and others to allocate existing health resources more effectively.

Halfway toward the deadline to achieve the so-called Millennium Development Goals, more than 10 million…

Interview with Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA

LONDON, Oct 22 2007 (IPS) – The Women Deliver conference held in London last week has reminded a lot of people in the world of healthcare how much more they need to deliver to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for women.

Thoraya Obaid Credit:

More than 1,800 delegates from 109 countries, among them 70 ministers and parliamentarians, met in London Oct. 18-20 to work out new ways of improving maternal health. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) since January 2001, will inevitably be a leading figure in taking the new m…