Health
Curb the Population Myth
IPN Opinion article
President Obama has ended the ban on federal funds imposed by the Bush Administration on groups that promote or perform abortions abroad and on the United Nations Population Fund. He must take this opportunity to put pressure on the UNFPA to concentrate on the health of women and babies ó and to stop wasting money assaulting the poor with wrongheaded population-control schemes.
Drowning a single illness in cash will do more harm than good
IPN Opinion article
Donors are beginning to realise that spending disproportionate sums on AIDS is undermining overall primary healthcare.
What population apocalypse is affecting us now?
IPN Opinion article
World Population Day: The problem is not population, but poverty.
Obamacare failed in Europe
IPN Opinion article
President Obama's health reforms envisage a far bigger role for government. France and Britain demonstrate that this direction of travel will neither save money nor improve patient care.
Europe's free, state-run health care has drawbacks
IPN News coverage
IPN's Philip Stevens comments on what lessons the US can learn from Europe as it reforms its health sector.
Fueling waste and corruption: U.S. aid hurts poor more than helps
IPN Opinion article
President Obama has revamped the Bush policy of heath aid to poor countries by widening its scope beyond AIDS to all diseases: it looks like a great idea but it is full of unintended consequences.
