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Julio Godoy

PARIS, Nov 30 2006 (IPS) – Immigrant women are becoming some of the main victims of new HIV transmissions in several European countries, especially in France, according to official figures.
The French Institute for Health Surveillance (InVS, after its French name) said in a report published this week that 6,700 people were diagnosed with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in France last year. This included a substantial number of women from sub-Saharan countries.

HIV is a retrovirus that causes the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

According to the report by InVS, 57 percent of the new HIV cases are women, and among those, 48 percent are immigrants from sub-Saharan countries.

The paper says that among men, roughly 20 percent of HI…

Peter Richards

PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 22 2010 (IPS) – The full-page newspaper advertisements touting the benefits of a controversial aluminium smelter plant appeared here just as the court of appeal is preparing to rule on whether such a facility is ever built in Trinidad and Tobago.
The advertisements feature prominent people and groups from the La Brea community in Trinidad s south, where the Alutrint Smelter Plant would be located. In one, Arthur Forde, identified as a La Brea community elder, says the smelter plant would allow Trinidad and Tobago to build ships, planes and every other thing that can be done here in Trinidad .

But anti-smelter activist Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh believes the ads and other activities are designed to prejudice the court process.

The …

KARACHI, Pakistan, Apr 12 2012 (IPS) – It was personal experience that turned Gul Bano and her cleric husband, Ahmed Khan, into ambassadors against early marriage and its worst corollary – obstetric fistula which allows excretory matter to flow out through the birth canal.

Bano and her cleric husband campaigning against child marriage. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS

As is the custom in the remote mountain village of Kohadast in the Khuzdar district of Balochistan province, Bano was married of…

The item below is a transcript of an editorial written in 1952 by T Keith Glennan, then Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission.

The editorial makes unmistakably clear that the birth of the nuclear electricity program was necessarily based on the production of plutonium for bombs. One key sentences states that:

there now exists a basis for the creation of semirisk industrial
nuclear- power enterprise while the military demand for plutonium
continues.
Semirisk meant subsidised.

Ironically, the editorial, toward its conclusion, says:
A multitude of other factors also must be considered, such as preferential position, adequate security measures, suitable safety precautions, public liability, and international relations. None of these probl…

Rashmi Chopra is a fellow in the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch.

Monica Wambui, 37, who is deaf, receives HIV/AIDS information in sign language. Wambui was among more than 40 people with disabilities who attended a workshop organised by the USAID-funded APHIAplus Nuru ya Bonde project in Nakuru, Kenya. Credit: USAID/George Obanyi

NEW YORK, Nov 28 2014 (IPS) – Jane is a young Zambian mother with a physical disability in Lusaka, who uses a wheelchair to get around. She does not let clinics without ramps or without wheelchair accessible toilets and equipment stop her from claiming her right to health care, including HIV prevention services.