Health

DOHA, Apr 1 2013 – India s highest court has dismissed Swiss drug maker Novartis AG s petition seeking patent

Young women on a Damascus street. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS UNITED NATIONS, May 21 2013 (IPS) – When thousands of participants

The continuous transport of coal for export through northern Colombia offers little more than dust and noise to the rural

An elderly TB patient at the Srinagar-based Chest Diseases Hospital in the Indian state of Kashmir. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPS SRINAGAR,

The Bakassi Peninsula, an area bordering Nigeria and Cameroon, lacks basic resources. Although primary education is free, enrolment rates are

GAMBELLA, Ethiopia, Nov 25 2013 (IPS) – Chiang Both from Gambella, a remote and a traditionally non-circumcising province in Ethiopia

A Palestinian family from Yarmouk camp in Syria now living on the fringes of Ein el Helwe camp in the

Many women in Pakistan qualify to become doctors, and then do not practice. Credit: Fahim Siddiqi/IPS. BOSTON, United States, Mar

An annual pow wow in honour of the old fishing village of Neerchokikoo. Photo courtesy of NAYA Family Centre. PORTLAND,

Nadezdha Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina (fourth and fifth from the right) with activists from the Andrei Rylkov Foundation for Health