Mantoe Phakathi
NHLANGANO, Swaziland, Nov 16 2009 (IPS) – Seven-year-old Ntombi* frowns after swallowing the tablets her grandmother has given her. The HIV-positive child has contracted multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
An HIV-positive mother sits next to her 18-month-old baby girl at Kangcamphalala in southern Swaziland. Both mother and bab…
Children in the town of Gueckedou, the epicentre of the ebola outbreak in Guinea. Credit: ©afreecom/Idrissa Soumaré
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 2014 (IPS) – President Barack Obama is under significant pressure to impose a range of restrictions on travellers coming to the United States from West African countries affected by the current Ebola outbreak.
Yet public health experts and development advocates warn that such restrictions would harm the already reeling economies of Ebola-hit countries in the region, and squeeze the international community’s ability to get health workers and goods into these countries.“If we get this wrong and just hunker down and hide, we will make …