Emad Mekay
WASHINGTON, Jul 6 2007 (IPS) – Despite strong verbal commitments to reproductive and sexual health, the so-called multilateral development banks (MDBs) that lend to poor nations have spent relatively little money on such projects and, in some cases, have followed policies on the ground that in fact impeded women s empowerment and improved public health, a new study charges.
The study by Gender Action, a Washington-based group that monitors the banks policies towards women and gender equality, examines both the quantity and quality of funding for reproductive health during a four-year period from 2003 to 2006 by MDBs that include the World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, as well as the restrictive fiscal an…
For HIV positive pregnant women, WHO recommends a course of the antibiotic Septrin, and for HIV negative women, the three tablet Fansidar.
Malaria in pregnant women is dangerous as it lowers their immunity. WHO calls it a major health problem, with adverse effects such as anaemia, low birth weight, prematurity, maternal death, stillbirth and miscarriage.
Zulu says it’s worth enduring side effects for a couple of days, considering this could save lives.
“I have seen too many mothers and babies die or suffer because this simple regimen was not adhered to,” she says.
For HIV positive women like Nalishupe, the situation is especially precarious. In a compromised immune system, acute malaria increases viral load and quickens progression to…
Linda Eckerbom Cole is the Founder and Executive Director of . She shuttles between Santa Barbara, California and Uganda.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Apr 7 2020 (IPS) – We are living in uncertain times. All of us are experiencing the Corona pandemic in various ways. For most it means quarantine and physical isolation. We worry about family members, loss of income and not knowing what the future will look like- or how long this will continue.
While the spread of Covid-19 across Sub-Saharan Africa is a few weeks behindwhat is happening in the US and Europe, the situation in Uganda and other east African countries has begun to shift dramatically in recent days.
A month …
Naomy Kolian and Jane Kaliko share light moments after a tiring day of engaging the community at a public forum on the need to stop FGM. Credit: Robert Kibet/IPS
NAIROBI, Jul 15 2024 (IPS) – In the heart of Empash village, a fragmented community nestled in Suswa, Narok County, some 62 miles northwest of Nairobi, Naomy Kolian s story unfolds like a gripping saga of pain, resilience, and unyielding determination.
It was here, amidst the familiar surroundings of her home, that she was subjected to female genital mutila…
The UN commemorated World Aids Day on 30 November. Credit: UNAIDS
GENEVA, Dec 1 2021 (IPS) – This week I called out to the world to warn them that inequalities are making us all unsafe. I noted starkly our new analysis that we face millions of additional AIDS deaths – 7.7 million in the next decade alone – as well continued devastation from pandemics, unless leaders address the inequalities which drive them. We have to treat this threat as an emergency, as a red alert.
To end AIDS, we need to act with far more urgency to tackle these inequalities. And it’s not just AIDS. All pandemics take root in, and widen, the fissures of society. The world’s failure to …