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Enrique Iglesias – IPS Award 2008

 

IPS Award 2008 Slideshow

 

If clinical trials are successful, the new tenofovir microbicide gel that protects women against the HIV virus will be manufactured in South Africa.

Dr Henry Gabelnick, of CONRAD, says licensing makes it possible to produce the topical gel to fit in to several price structures. Tinus de Jager asked Gabelnick what rights the South Africans received.

Lao Theatre Serves Up Creative Menu of Advocacy, Arts

Khaoniew puppet theatre group, whose name translates into the ‘sticky rice’ that Laos is so known for, serves its audience a homegrown mix of creative social messages through the use of tools that locals are well familiar with.

South Africa is going ahead with clinical trials of the tenofovir microbicide gel that has showed a 39% effectiveness in preventing HIV transmission to in women.

South Africa is going ahead with clinical trials of the tenofovir microbicide gel that has showed a 39% effectiveness in preventing HIV transmission to in women.

The latest statistics on HIV and Aids show large numbers of youth in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the pandemic.

The latest statistics on HIV and Aids show large numbers of youth in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the pandemic.

Sewing project gives women a chance to empower themselves

Sewing project gives women a chance to empower themselves

Healthier Kids Healthier Development by Vannaphone Sitthirath

 

South African civil society organisations are calling on the Government, churches and communities to join forces in the fight against corrective rape.

South African civil society organisations are calling on the Government, churches and communities to join forces in the fight against corrective rape. Zukiswa Zimela reports from Johannesburg.

The results of the South African local government elections results have been declared and, while turnout is the highest since democratic elections started in 1994, women are falling way short of 50% representation in local government.

The results of the South African local government elections results have been declared and, while turnout is the highest since democratic elections started in 1994, women are falling way short of 50% representation in local government.

Xayaburi Dam: An Unfinished Story in the Mekong

Say ‘Mekong dams’ these days and the first thing that comes to mind is the controversial Xayaburi dam project in Laos, which in recent years has been the subject of worries among neighbouring – especially downstream -- communities and governments.

South Africans are voting for new municipal councillors, with more than 200 thousand special ballots expected to be made before Election Day.

South Africans are voting for new municipal councillors, with more than 200 thousand special ballots expected to be made before Election Day. The chief electoral officer, Advocate Pansy Tlakula, is happy with the preparations and progress, but she is concerned about the lack of women candidates.

South Africans go to the polls on Wednesday 18 May to elect new local government representatives.

South Africans go to the polls on Wednesday 18 May to elect new local government representatives. But some gender advocates say more than an election is needed to make women equal to men in South African society.

DEVELOPMENT: Women Leading Bangladesh Away from the LDC Tag | LDC-IV

“In the garments sector we have a revolution," Nasreen Awal Mintoo, president of the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Bangladesh, told IPS. A women-led revolution, she says, that will help uplift the entire country. Sanjay Suri reports from the fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul, Turkey. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55656

DEVELOPMENT: Chinese Step In, Efficiently | LDC-IV

For Jany Chen, CEO of Shanghai Environmental Group, concern often raised in Europe and North America about the Chinese invasion of Africa is a lot of wasteful talk that deserves to be flushed down the toilet. Sanjay Suri reports from the fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul, Turkey. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55652

SOUTH UNITES FOR LDCs, Sanjay Suri reports for IPS from LDC-IV in Istanbul

Within the broad failure of the weeklong Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul that concluded Friday, many delegates are taking heart in a strengthening South-South front that has emerged. “We would like to push for greater South-South cooperation because in our opinion it's one way for LDCs to have more political autonomy to design their own policies and formulate their own priorities, and to implement policies that are in the best interests of their citizens.” ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55629

BIZARRE BAZAAR: Market Forces Rise Above Declarations | LDC-IV

At the Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul, a battery of Turkish companies set up stalls at a bazaar, eager to sell to businesses from the LDCs. Sanjay Suri reports on this “private sector track” of the conference that ran parallel to the meetings' gabfest.

LDCs CANNOT CONTINUE TO WAIT FOR WTO DEAL, Sanjay Suri from IPS speaks with Valentine Rugwabiza of the WTO.

We are not at the origins of this impasse, we are not the ones preventing the round from progressing, but we are the ones who are going to pay the highest cost,” Rugwabiza told IPS. LDCs are seeking a mini trade deal ahead of any worldwide agreement under the Doha Round of trade negotiations. The talks - underway since 2001 - have slowed to almost a halt, and the rise of emerging Southern economies has made the donor-client rhetoric of many players in the talks increasingly irrelevant. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55590

The Search for Water

Summer brings with it the search for better access to drinking water, especially in the Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar that was hit by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008. More than 5,000 ponds and 3,000 hand-dug wells in the delta area, the usual sources of water for local communities, were also destroyed by Nargis.

A lack of funds in Mozambique is hampering access to medicines in the southern African country.

A lack of funds in Mozambique is hampering access to medicines in the southern African country. IPS reporter Johannes Myburgh speaks to Mozambique's health ministry about shortages at public health institutions.