Mario Osava

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 13 2006 (IPS) – Brazil s minister of health, Agenor Álvares, has admitted that the public health system is imbued with racism, stirring up more controversy over policies for specific treatment plans targeting Brazilians of African descent.
There are clear signs of discriminatory practices, one possible factor in the higher incidence among Afro-descendants of a number of illnesses, the minister said at a seminar on the special policies two weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro.

There have been similar critical responses to other programmes designed to correct social inequalities in Brazil. Some say that poverty, not ethnic origin, is the reason that health indicators are worse among blacks, while others argue that Brazil s racial mix has eliminat…

Francesca Colombo* – Tierramérica

MILAN, Dec 8 2006 (IPS) – In Italy just 10 ill people have authorisation to use marijuana as therapy against pain. But that number could grow in the coming months if parliament approves a law for using this usually illegal plant for medical purposes.
Federico Fantoni, 58, is a doctor and a quadriplegic. For the past eight years he has used a wheelchair and suffers pain in his arms due to muscle contraction caused by his illness. To fight the pain he tried all possible medications, including opium patches, but he couldn t stand the side effects.

After learning more about the therapeutic use of marijuana (Cannabis sativa), he decided to try it. In five hours I didn t feel any discomfort, he said in testimony for the Italian Association…

Moyiga Nduru

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 27 2007 (IPS) – This year s rainy season has brought some mixed blessings to farmers and aid agencies operating in Southern Africa, which experienced a spell of drought and famine last year.
In most of the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC), the rainfall on which most farmers rely unable to afford irrigation starts in November and ends in March.

We had a poor start to the season. But since late December we have experienced some good rainfall. This doesn t mean that all is well. The southern and eastern parts of the country are not having good rainfall, Ajah Vashee, president of the Trustee of Zambia National Farmers Union, told IPS from the central town of Ndola by phone.

Some farmers, because rains started…

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Zofeen Ebrahim

KARACHI, Feb 21 2007 (IPS) – Pakistan has intensified efforts to eradicate the polio virus with a new vaccination drive that targets 12 high-risk districts in southern Sindh province where three new cases were reported recently, bringing the total number of polio incidents countrywide to four since the start of the year.
The door-to-door anti-polio campaign from Feb. 20 to 22 is part of the Health Ministry s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). Pakistan s Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) was launched in 1994 in collaboration with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPI) which was begun six years before.

But despite a gargantuan effort by an army of some 60,000 frontline health workers in Pakistan, who go from house to house to administer two…

Ruth Ansah Ayisi

MAPUTO, Mar 30 2007 (IPS) – Six hours of terrifying explosions and projectiles flying everywhere, killing people indiscriminately, are over but the fear and the trauma live on.

Credit: Ruth Ansah Ayisi

A week ago, a depot storing armaments exploded in the middle of 14 densely populated poor neighbourhoods in the Mozambican capital of Maputo. Explosions went on for several hours with bullets and rockets blasting off in all directions.

Currently over 100 people are confirmed dead and about 500 injured, many of them serious and requiring amputations. Nobody escaped the impact. Maputo residents at least …

Milagros Salazar

ALGAMARCA, Peru, May 7 2007 (IPS) – While two companies are disputing a hill rich in gold in the extreme northwest of Peru, more than 3,000 informal sector miners are working there without the most basic safety or environmental protection measures.

Miners on Algamarca hill Credit: Office of the President of Peru.

The hillside is dotted with the blue, yellow and red plastic roofs of the miners tents and shacks. The miners settlement on Algamarca hill is a 15-minute drive from the village of the same name, home to 200 famil…