Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 23 2009 (IPS) – The colourful new magazine of the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) in Latin America and the Caribbean has a modern look and provides not only information but articles on fashion and entertainment. It is also the perfect size to carry in a purse.
Magazines in doctors offices often show HIV-positive women in the role of victims, leading tragic lives. But the ones I know are happy, full of energy, and living healthy smoking-free lives, keeping close track of their immune systems, María Mansilla, the editor in charge of content for the publication No estás sola (You Are not Alone) told IPS.
The name of the magazine emerged from the slogan of an ICW Latina campaign targeting pregnant women livi…
This story is part one of a three-part series on the challenges faced by people living with disabilities in a world where intense storms and other natural disasters are expected to become the “new normal”.
NEW YORK, Aug 14 2013 (IPS) – Like many people living in the path of Hurricane Sandy last fall, Lauren Scrivo needed more battery power. Despite a call offering help from the mayor of Fairfield, New Jersey, where Scrivo lives with her family, her concerns went far beyond extra water bottles and flashlights.
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 1 2020 (IPS) – The experience and interpretation of the Coronavirus pandemic oscillates between the personal and the general spheres. The official discourse and measures taken by authorities have a direct impact on our lives, change our daily existence and foster worries for the future. A dark cloud of uncertainty hovers above us. What do decision makers know? What can they do? What can we do? Many of us are secluded in our own homes, others in wards or hospitals, or even alone and far away from the ones they love:
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hands to left or right,
And emptiness above –
Know that you aren’…
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 2020 (IPS) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has that developing countries would need more than the US$2.5 trillion to provide relief to affected families and businesses and expedite economic recovery.
Anis Chowdhury
With their limited fiscal capacities, developing countries will need to borrow more, increasing their often already high public . Developing country debt has grown rapidly since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis (GFC), reaching historical highs even before the pandemic.
A deep pandemic induced depression may also require governments to take over huge private debt liab…
Beirut, Lebanon; Tuesday, September 1st, 2020. Credit: Photojournalist Rahib Yassine
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb 1 2021 (IPS) – Humankind is no stranger to the destabilizing events of 2020. The state of the global economy and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic hit the headlines. In this ever escalating global crisis, Lebanon, has been facing what can only be described as unimaginable hardships. For the past year the c…