Health
Keeping It Real - Protecting the world's poor from fake drugs
Martes, Mayo 5, 2009
The EU's Nasty Bite
Jueves, Enero 8, 2009
This study discusses the potential consequences of new EU regulations that prohibit production of certain chemicals used in the manufacture of pesticides.
Educating Women Saves Children, Study Finds
IPN News coverage
IPN Senior Fellow, Philip Stevens, urges caution about research that shows links education to greater longevity for women.
Stolen African medicines
IPN News coverage
Julian Harris discussed the issues surrounding African medicines “going missing” on World Today, BBC World Service, last night.
AP: Africans text message to check if drugs are real
IPN News coverage
Julian Harris comments on a technological solution to the fake drug problem in Africa.
What do AIDS activists want more money for?
IPN Opinion article
UNAIDS has inflated its HIV/AIDS figures for years and now claims the natural decline of AIDS as a victory (it started before UNAIDS was set up): Bill Clinton at the international AIDS conference in Vienna attacked the waste of money but this analyst says UNAIDS should just be shut down. In fact, AIDS is not even the top killer in Africa, let alone anywhere else.
Wrong Tax, Wrong Disease
IPN Opinion article
Officials and activists (and a slightly equivocal Bill Clinton) at the recent world AIDS conference in Vienna want a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions to fund HIV/AIDS relief. This well-published analyst explains why this is a bad and counter-productive idea.
UN: HIV declines among young people in Africa
IPN News coverage
The number of young people infected with HIV in Africa is falling in 16 of the 25 countries hardest hit by the virus, according to a new report by a U.N. agency...
