Month: October 2024

Peter Richards

PORT OF SPAIN, Oct 31 2006 (IPS) – The latest sign that the Patrick Manning administration is not about to back down on its plans to permit the construction of smelter plants in Trinidad and Tobago came during the government s presentation of its 2006-7 national budget to the parliament earlier this month.
Prime Minister Manning told legislators that two aluminium smelter plants, including one by the U.S. firm Alcoa, would be built here even though the government understands the concerns raised by citizens regarding the construction of these smelters .

The other plant, Alutrint, is a partnership between the locally-based National Energy Corporation (NEC) and the Sural Group of Venezuela. It is 60 percent owned by the government with the Venezuelan group…

Katherine Stapp

NEW YORK, Nov 30 2006 (IPS) – Smallpox, polio and a host of other contagious, often fatal diseases have been stopped in their tracks by simple vaccines. More than two decades into the quest to untangle the secrets of the notoriously changeable HIV virus, is there still reason for hope?
IPS spoke with Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, and Anjali Nayyar, vice president for country and regional programmes at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), who helped launch the first AIDS vaccine trial in India, about the challenges research scientists around the world are currently facing.

IPS: The head of IAVI, Seth Berkley, said recently that even a partially effective AIDS vaccine given to only 30 percent of …

Mithre J. Sandrasagra

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 2007 (IPS) – The world s response to protect and support HIV-infected and AIDS-affected children remains tragically insufficient , but that is beginning to change, according to a new report by the U.N. children s agency UNICEF.
The Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS initiative was launched in October 2005 by UNICEF with the goal of putting the missing face of children at the centre of the global HIV/AIDS agenda.

This week s report, titled Children and AIDS: A Stocktaking Report , evaluates the world s response to protect and support AIDS-affected children in the year since the initiative began.

One year ago we did not know how many children were on treatment, we did not know how many governments were spending m…

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Ruth Ansah Ayisi

MAPUTO, Feb 9 2007 (IPS) – The school year kicks off in Mozambique with more children enrolling for primary school than ever in the past. But educational prospects remain bleak for orphans like Regina Massango.
Regina was only 12 years old and had barely completed grade two of primary school when her sick mother asked her to drop out. My mother needed me to go work at my aunt s house, says Regina.

She had to pack her bags and leave her frail mother and three siblings in their home in the small railway town of Moamba to offer her services as a domestic worker in the capital, Maputo, some 45 kilometres away. Regina s father had died almost 10 years ago.

At my aunt s home, I would start work at five in the morning until five in the afternoon, wa…

Stephen Leahy

BROOKLIN, Canada, Mar 20 2007 (IPS) – The Pacific region has long been a favourite target of gene hunters, unethical bio-researchers and patent bottom trawlers looking to profit from its unique flora, fauna and human beings.
Pacific Islanders have had their genes patented against their will. T-cells from the Hagahai tribe in Papua New Guinea can be purchased today on the internet for 216 dollars.

Cook Islanders were nearly the subjects of an experiment to transplant pig parts into humans in 2002. Had it proceeded, the U.S. would have labelled the Cook Islands a rogue state over fears about the potential spread of virulent pig retroviruses in humans, according to a new book launched by co-publishers Call of the Earth Llamado de la Tierra, and the United N…

Aaron Glantz

LOS ANGELES, Apr 22 2007 (IPS) – The house lights go down and the stage lights come up on The Wolf , the first production of VetStage, a non-profit theatre company run by veterans of the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It opens with a funeral: a Roman Catholic priest preparing to deliver a eulogy for a U.S. soldier killed by a road-side bomb.
Quickly, the scene changes and we re transported to a group therapy session under way at military mental institution. It s here that we meet our two main characters. Both are members of the Marine Corps facing court martial. The first, a female soldier accused of killing a fellow Marine after he raped her. The second, for massacring an entire Iraqi family in their home.

The therapy session does not go well.