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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

Tank trucks being filled with water in front of Osman Bin Affan Mosque in Beirut. Credit: Oriol Andrés Gallart/IPS BEIRUT,

H.E. Mrs Hinda Deby Itno, is the First Lady of the Republic of Chad and President of the Organisation of

Concern is being raised by civil society and the public about how Sierra Leone’s government is handling the Ebola pandemic.