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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 25 2005 (IPS) – For the first time since 2001, Afghanistan has made a dent in its opium poppy cultivation, but experts warn that the illegal crop could easily flourish again next year unless the country makes real progress toward sustainable economic development.
According to the U.N. s 2005 Afghan Opium Survey, poppy cultivation fell 21 percent this year. One field out of five that had poppies in 2004 was planted with a legal crop in 2005, meaning that the total area of poppy fields fell from 134,000 hectares to 104,000 hectares.
According to the survey, some 50,000 Afghan farmers refrained from planting opium poppies last year because of fears of eradication, the civil and religious campaign against the drug, and stepped up law …
IPS interviews CARLOS BRITO, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev
MONTEVIDEO, Sep 27 2010 (IPS) – Some two billion people around the world drink alcohol, a practice that has been around since time immemorial. Responsible drinking is only part of the picture; the WHO reports that the harmful use of alcohol affects tens of millions of people and kills two and a half million people every year, from causes ranging from illnesses to traffic accidents.
Carlos Brito Credit: Courtesy AB InBev
Industry self-regulation was one of the components of a global alcohol strategy launched by the WHO (World He…
Credit: Paul Nevin.
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2019 (IPS) – Describing it as an “important landmark” on our “journey to health for all”, Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday welcomed the UN Political Declaration on universal health coverage, or UHC, which commits countries to advance towards full coverage for their citizens in four major areas around primary care.
During a meeting of heads of State, ministers, health leaders, policy-makers, and universal health coverage champions, the UN chief UHC “the most comprehensive agreement ever reached on global health – a vision for Universal Health Coverage by 2030”.
World leaders made the public commit…
A medical officer preparing to give a COVID-19 vaccine in Somalia in May 2021. Credit: Mokhtar Mohamed/AMISOM
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 2022 (IPS) – With the outbreak of Monkeypox in non-endemic countries leading to a scramble for vaccines, global health advocates are again calling for equity to be prioritized in the international response.
Equity was a top concern during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency health response. The World Health Organization (WHO) helped spearhead several in an attempt to reduce disparities between nation…