Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN , May 28 2010 (IPS) – Two small boys play quietly on a jungle gym, some distance away from other children. The six-year-old twins, who live at the Masigcine children s centre in Mfuleni township, 35 kilometres out of Cape Town, are severely traumatised from being orphaned at the age of one and have difficulty relating to their peers.
The number of orphans in South Africa has risen by 4.9 percent since 2005. Credit: Kristin Palitza/IPS
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 17 2019 (IPS) – Malnutrition remains a formidable challenge in most societies, with less than a tenth of countries in the world not experiencing at least one major malnutrition problem.
In relatively more food secure countries, where almost everyone has enough to eat, and few live in fear of a sudden loss of access to food, micronutrient deficiencies and diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) often still loom large.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
One such country is Malaysia where rice is, by and large, available and affordable to almost everyone. However, what else Malaysians eat is quite problematic, causing to undernutrition in terms of micr…
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ABUJA, Mar 30 2020 (IPS) – As COVID-19 surges globally and leaves fear and panic in its wake, global efforts are underway to find a cure. Yet, the same level of response is lacking for several other infectious diseases that kill millions annually. These kinds of are a broad group of communicable diseases which affect more than two billion people and cost developing economies billions of dollars every year.
is an example and is endemic in Nigeria and other West Afr…