By Neeta Lal NEW DELHI, Jun 20 2016 (IPS) – Sunita Pal, a frail 17-year-old, lies in a tiny bed in the women’s ward of New Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. Her face and head swathed in bandages, with only ...
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Feed SubscriptionDespite Mass Shooting At Gay Nightclub ‘Gay Blood’ Donation Banned
By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer When the call went out for people in Orlando, Florida to donate blood to help the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting carried out by Omar Mateen at Pulse, a gay nightclub, many formed lines ...
Read More »Letisha Ghanbari: 2016 Dispatcher Of The Year
By Jordan Maxwell PRIDE Contributing Writer An expecting mother is in an emergency situation, dealing with a breech birth that was coming too early in the back of a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado in Kite, Georgia. Enter Letisha Ghanbari, an emergency ...
Read More »Allen Chastanet Sworn In As New St. Lucia PM
By Peter Richards St. Lucia Correspondent CASTRIES, St. Lucia, (CMC) – An emotional Allen Michael Chastanet was sworn in, today, as the sixth Prime Minister of St. Lucia since the island attained political independence from Britain in 1979, vowing to ...
Read More »Stepping Up The Fight To End Cholera And Chikungunya Outbreaks In Mandera County, Kenya
By Siddharth Chatterjee Mandera County, Kenya, Jun 5 2016 (IPS) – Mandera’s double whammy, the concurrent outbreaks of cholera and chikungunya, is bringing to the fore the need for accelerated epidemic preparedness and prevention systems. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal ...
Read More »World Oceans Day – A Death Sea Called Mediterranean
By Baher Kamal ROME, Jun 6 2016 (IPS) – While the United Nations identifies 17 major regional seas in its planning, the Mediterranean is perhaps the most dramatic case as it has gone from being the so-called cradle of civilization ...
Read More »An Example Of African-Canadian Youth Achievement
At the May 31 convocation for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto (U of T), Asians and Caucasians dominated the field of graduates and newly accredited doctors. But, among the more than 340 students, who also included ...
Read More »African Leaders Make An Economic Case For Increased Nutrition Investments
By Friday Phiri LUSAKA, May 31 2016 (IPS) – Africa’s contribution to global malnutrition statistics is miserably high, with 58 million children under the age of five said to be too short for their age, while 13.9 million weigh too ...
Read More »UNFPA Funding Cuts Threaten Women’s Health In Poorer Nations
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, May 26 2016 (IPS) – The UN Population Fund (UNFPA), which has played a key role in ensuring maternal health and promoting reproductive rights of millions of women world-wide, is expected to suffer over $140 ...
Read More »Restaurant Week Launched In Guyana To Help Boost Tourism Development
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 27 (GINA) — Restaurant Week was launched, today, under the theme “Explore, eat and repeat”, to facilitate the high influx of overseas visitors expected in the country for the 50th Independence anniversary celebrations. The event, which will ...
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