LGBTQ+ people have always existed. However, in modern times, they have become louder and more prominent – for several reasons. Fewer and fewer people are afraid of showing their true colors and living their lives being their full selves. Pride Month is a yearly reminder of the progress made and the progress that still needs to be made. At the same time, all of this sounds serious (and it is), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t space for fun in inclusion.
Whether you are a queer person trying to level up their Pride celebration or an ally who wants to learn more about the LGBTQ+ community and support their friends, a gay bar crawl can be an excellent way to experience such things while also having fun. If you’re from Raleigh, you’ll be happy to learn that there is …
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BUCHAREST, Jul 31 2008 (IPS) – Poverty and social displacement, increased availability of drugs, and chaos in the healthcare systems that accompanied transition from state socialism to the market economy have contributed to the spread of HIV in Eastern Europe.
Russia and the Central Asian countries that were once a part of the Soviet Union are today the worst hit by large numbers of new HIV infections. According to UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), between 2001-2007 the number of people living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia increased by 150 percent, from 630,000 to 1.6 million. More than half of the new cases were diagnosed in Russia, and over 20 percent in Ukraine.
In most other countries in Eastern Europe, the HIV …
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CHICAGO, U.S., Feb 19 2009 (IPS) – Climate change is bringing malaria to regions of Africa where the disease was previously unknown, researchers report from the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago this week.
Interestingly, the Arctic, where climate change is happening fastest, is the best place to study how warming temperatures are affecting infectious disease transmission.
Insect-transmitted diseases, primarily malaria, kill 3,000 people in Africa each day, said Andy Dobson of Princeton University in the United States.
Understanding how global warming is altering temperatures and the ecology and ranges of the malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquito is crucial to understanding the dynamics of how insec…
IPS correspondent Joan Erakit interviews DR. BABATUNDE OSOTIMEHIN, executive director of UNFPA.
Shahida Amin, a young Pakistani woman, brings her 10-month-old son to school every day. Credit: Farooq Ahmed/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 4 2014 (IPS) – The Programme of Action adopted at the landmark 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) included chapters that defined concrete actions covering some 44 dimensions of population and development, including the need to provide for women and girls during times of conflict, the urgency of investments in young people’s capabilities, and the importance of women’s political participation and r…
IPS Correspondent Stella Paul interviews MARCUS SAMO Assistant Secretary in Micronesia’s Department of Health Services
Marcus Samo, Assistant Secretary in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Department of Health Services, is concerned that the country has been unable to reduce the prevalence of Hansen’s disease. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS
POHNPEI , Apr 8 2019 (IPS) – During his 22-year career in the health sector, Marcus Samo has seen the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) suffer from an increased burden of disease while at the same time the resources to address them have either remained the same or decreased.
Samo is the Assistant Secretary in the country’…
NEW DELHI, India, Feb 8 2022 (IPS) – The Covid-19 pandemic affected countries and people globally, at the same time exacerbated vulnerabilities such as modern-day slavery. There are over people estimated to be in modern-day slavery, and certain population groups, sectors and geographies such as children, migrant workers, women and girls that were already vulnerable, became more vulnerable to recruitment and exploitation during the pandemic. The has called the pandemic more than a health crisis, “it is an economic crisis, a humanitarian crisis, and a human rights crisis.”
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UN Secretary- General António Guterres the world to go into emergency mode in the COVID…