Health

The new boom in malaria

Author: Philip Stevens

World Malaria Day, 25 April - The biggest threat is the rise of drug-resistant parasites due to fake and sub-standard medicines. As with other drugs before, this resistance is emerging all along the Mekong, from Cambodia to Myanmar, where the wonder-drug artemisinin is already failing: this threatens malaria victims everywhere.

Killing the malaria killer

IPN Opinion article

Author: Richard Tren

On World Malaria Day, activists and governments discuss many weapons against the disease except one of the most effective: DDT 

The new boom in malaria

IPN Opinion article

Author: Philip Stevens

The outlook for malaria remains poor because of fake drugs and bad governance

Maternal instincts

IPN News coverage

Author: Philip Stevens

Good news on maternal health issues was stifled, but the public deserves better says this editorial

Chair seeks to tackle bias in WHO swine flu review

Author: Philip Stevens

Frank Jordans of the Associated Press quotes IPN's Philip Stevens on the WHO swine flu review

Politics of aid seen in clash over maternal deaths

IPN News coverage

Author: Philip Stevens

IPN's Philip Stevens is quoted by Maria Cheng in an Associated Press story on disputed figures for maternal mortality.