Istanbul is renowned for its superior clinical centers, skilled practitioners, and price-powerful approaches. Many worldwide sufferers are interested in the town for its mixture of first-rate hospital treatment and inexpensive pricing. The cost of living and running a clinical practice in Istanbul is lower than in many Western countries, which translates to decrease charges for sufferers. Additionally, the town s wealthy cultural history and beautiful environment offer an added incentive for the ones seeking both clinical treatment and a memorable travel experience

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Rik Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative for Palestine, briefs the media on the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza. Credit: Naureen Hossain/IPS

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 2024 (IPS) – The UN’s multi-agency polio vaccine campaign in Gaza is set to begin this weekend. It will do so under continued constraints on humanitarian operations and mobility, but with the assurance from Israel to pause fighting for the campaign to go ahead.

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Mario Osava

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 28 2005 (IPS) – Brazil, the world s largest exporter of chicken, has been making efforts to ease fears that bird flu could spread to Latin America. But closer to home than the H5N1 virus that has decimated flocks and killed dozens of people in Asia is the scare caused by the reemergence of spotted fever, a rare tick-borne disease with a high mortality rate.
Although the disease is nothing new for doctors, many Brazilians heard of it for the first time this month when three people died after staying in a hotel in Petrópolis, a mountain retreat about an hour away from Rio de Janeiro, in October.

The incident has had repercussions for tourism in the city, the summer residence of Brazil s emperors and aristocrats in the 19th century, and t…

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Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 9 2006 (IPS) – The United States, a major funder of the United Nations and its myriad agencies, has a longstanding notoriety for exercising its financial clout to threaten U.N. bodies refusing to play ball with Washington.
Back in 1984, it withdrew from the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), citing disagreement over its management, and also opposing a proposed plan for the creation of a new international information order.

The withdrawal resulted in a substantive 25 percent U.S. cut in UNESCO s annual 180-million-dollar budget. But despite the sharp cut, UNESCO continued to survive minus the United States. In 2003, however, Washington returned to the fold, arguing it could live with the then new…

Moyiga Nduru

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 16 2006 (IPS) – Johannesburg is the financial heart of South Africa, and for those who gain a share of the city s wealth, affluent homes await.
Far less fortunate is Johannesburg s homeless population, variously put at between 500,000 to 800,000 people. In all, there are some 3.2 million people in the city, according to official figures.

The number (of homeless persons) is very dodgy; there are no official statistics. The homeless move about a lot, so it s difficult to keep record, Ndai Mncedisi, director of the Johannesburg-based Paballo ya Batho, a homeless outreach programme administered by the Methodist Church, told IPS. (Paballo ya Batho is a Sotho name which translates as Caring for the People .)

Those without homes still …

Catherine Sasman

WINDHOEK, Mar 20 2006 (IPS) – The sight of an elderly person caring for children with AIDS-related illnesses and grandchildren who may have been orphaned by the pandemic has become a common one in Namibia, and the Southern African region as a whole.
According to the 2004 Common Country Assessment prepared for Namibia under the auspices of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), grandparents provide care for most orphans under the age of 18 who live in rural areas. These children accounted for up to 75 percent of the 156,000 children orphaned at the time of the assessment. (UNDAF enables U.N. agencies to plan development programmes for individual countries; the framework also allows for cooperation between the U.N. system, governments and …

Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 19 2006 (IPS) – Concerned about the enormous risks that nuclear technology poses to the environment and the questionable role it has played in heightening political conflicts, some leading European politicians are suggesting that the time has come for the United Nations to stop promoting nuclear technology as an effective tool to meet the world s growing energy demands.
Key European leaders who once served their countries as environment ministers are urging U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to reform the mandate of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which they consider to be outdated and conflicting .

The task of nuclear arms proliferation seems to be growing rapidly, said Satu Hassi, a member of the European Parliament an…