Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, Nov 21 2005 (IPS) – In Haiti, the poorest country in the hemisphere, HIV prevalence fell in urban areas due to changes in sexual behaviour. But in the region as a whole, the number of people living with HIV, the AIDS virus, rose in 2005.
The good and bad news was announced by the AIDS Epidemic Update 2005 , the annual report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), whose Spanish language version was presented Monday in Buenos Aires.

Laurent Zessler, UNAIDS coordinator for the Southern Cone region (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay), underlined that prevention is key to curbing the epidemic, and said governments and civil society are not providing the right solution.

According to the report, the number of people living with HIV in the region rose from 1.6 million to 1.8 million between 2003 and 2005. It also notes that 66,000 people died of AIDS in the past year wh…

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Tito Drago

MADRID, Dec 21 2005 (IPS) – Spain has joined in a growing worldwide trend by adopting strict new legislation that will ban smoking in the workplace and other enclosed public spaces as of Jan. 1, while requiring bars and restaurants to offer non-smoking sections.
A survey carried out by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), a government agency, shortly after the Dec. 15 passage of the new law showed that 25.8 percent of respondents identified themselves as smokers, while another 26.7 percent said they had been regular smokers at some time in the past. Other studies have estimated the proportion of smokers in Spain at just over 30 percent of the population.

Nevertheless, 77.2 percent of the people interviewed in the CIS survey said they approved of the ban on smoking in the workplace, while approval jumped to 94.1 percent for the prohibition on smoking in hospitals, schools, government offices and enclosed sports and cultural venues.

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Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 2006 (IPS) – Despite his administration s growing concerns about preventing the collapse of states in strategic parts of the world, U.S. President George W. Bush has proposed cuts in development and disaster assistance while increasing the defence budget by almost seven percent.
Under his 2007 budget request submitted to Congress Monday, Pentagon spending next year would rise to some 440 billion dollars, not including another 120 billion dollars that the administration is expected to ask for as a supplemental appropriation to fund U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through September, when fiscal 2006 ends.

By contrast, Bush s proposed 2007 foreign-aid request will remain roughly the same as last year s at some 24 billion dollars, the equivalent of what Washington spends in less than five months in Iraq.

Moreover, the president is calling for a nearly 20 percent cut in development aid from roughly 1.5 billion dollars…

Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 2006 (IPS) – The United Nations is calling for international institutions and governments worldwide to ensure equal participation of women in decision-making and to take actions to enhance their role in development.
Concluding its two week annual meeting here, which continued until late on Mar. 10, the 45-member Commission on the Status of Women adopted a number of resolutions concerning women s economic, political and social rights.

Deploring all kinds of violence against civilians during armed conflict, the Commission adopted a unanimous resolution urging the immediate release of all women and children. The resolution stressed the need to end impunity and the responsibility of all states to prosecute those responsible for war crimes.

In another resolution, the Commission demanded that Israel comply fully with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Conventions in order to protect the rights of Palestin…

Moyiga Nduru

JOHANNESBURG, Apr 12 2006 (IPS) – An Africa-wide campaign has been launched to halt HIV infections, this as the continent continues to be the worst affected by AIDS globally.
According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 3.2 million of the five million new infections estimated to have occurred last year were in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 60 percent of all HIV-positive persons (just under 26 million) live in this region, even though it accounts for about 10 percent of the global population.

The Year of Accelerating Access to HIV Prevention was inaugurated simultaneously in Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, Ouagadougou and Khartoum; it is being spearheaded by the African Union and U.N. agencies. The hope is that countries in Africa will intensify and improve efforts to prevent HIV infection.

It is unconscionable that every single day, nearly 2,000 infants are infected with HIV during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding mo…

Constanza Vieira

BOGOTÁ, May 11 2006 (IPS) – Twenty-seven years after Congresswoman Consuelo Lleras unsuccessfully submitted a bill to legalise abortion in Colombia, the country s Constitutional Court has recognised the right to terminate a pregnancy in case of rape, a threat to the woman s life or health, or if the foetus has a deformity that would prevent survival outside the womb.
These were the same three conditions proposed by Lleras. The ruling also includes cases of non-consensual artificial insemination or transfer of fertilised ova, or incest.

Women will have to present a medical certificate when seeking health-related abortions, or file a police report, in the case of rape.

But the response from Colombia s Catholic Church was immediate. In a country where even the Marxist guerrillas fighting a civil war for the past four decades fear excommunication, Cardinal Pedro Rubiano, president of the Bishops Conference, announced that fate Thursday for t…

Gustavo Capdevila

GENEVA, Jun 15 2006 (IPS) – One quarter of the global disease burden in adults is related to environmental risk factors that could be modified with existing interventions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a new report Friday.
And in the case of children, environmental factors are involved in more than one-third of the disease burden, said Carlos Corvalán, coordinator of WHO s department of public health and environment and co-author of the report.

However, the positive message is that we know which type of interventions need to be done in order to reduce that burden of disease and make sure that our health will benefit, said María Neira, WHO director of public health and environment.

We are talking about interventions that are available, Neira told IPS We are talking about reducing air pollution indoors and outdoors, about better access to clean water, about the prevention of chronic acute respiratory infections through the …