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BUENOS AIRES, Sep 16 2011 (IPS) – Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay have all made progress in the area of child health. But some are celebrating significant achievements while others are plodding slowly towards the goals adopted by the U.N. member countries in 2000. This was the outlook reflected by the reports of … Read more

LAHORE, Feb 15 2012 (IPS) – A knock on her front door throws Beenish, a 28-year-old housewife from Lahore, into a fix: should she allow the female volunteer vaccinators to administer the oral polio vaccine (OPV) to her two-year-old son, or not? The decision has not always been this hard. Last year, Beenish had no … Read more

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 9 2020 (IPS) – Within weeks, the Covid-19 epidemic was classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an epidemic of international significance, triggering a pre-agreed WHO response. By the end of the first week of April, more than across the world. Anis Chowdhury Many governments of developing, especially poor … Read more