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MONTEVIDEO, Jun 19 2006 (IPS) – Quickly and decisively, Matilde, a hyperactive 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome, seems to bond with a horse at the equine therapy ranch run by Uruguayan physiatrist Néstor Nieves.
The interaction with the horse acts as a source of stimulation for Matilde in a number of areas. Guiding her is an expert in psychomotricity, one of the seven children of Nieves and his wife, educator Ana María Reyes. This calming human-equine experience takes place at a rented ranch, just 30 minutes by car from bustling downtown Montevideo.
Therapeutic riding is based on taking advantage of the horse s natural qualities to work towards integral rehabilitation of an individual with one or more disabilities, to harmonically …
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Aug 4 2006 (IPS) – Having succeeded in producing cheap generic drugs to help people with HIV/AIDS enjoy longer lives, Thailand is now ready with generics capable of helping its citizens fight the onslaught of another deadly virus bird flu.
The announcement by Thai scientists that they now have a generic version of Tamiflu, the only known anti-viral drug capable of stopping an epidemic of avian influenza, could not have been better timed. It offers hope for cheaper treatment just as the country is grappling with a virulent outbreak of the H5N1 strain of the virus in its poultry population, after a seven-month lull.
It will not be for commercial purposes. This is for our security, to have the tablets available, Dr. Sirirerk Songsivilai, de…
Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 6 2006 (IPS) – In an unprecedented move, Argentina s Supreme Court held a public hearing with the aim of securing commitments from the State and private companies to live up to the clean-up plan for the Matanza-Riachuelo basin, a byword for pollution in this South American country.
When exactly will the last remaining sewage drains be ready? asked the president of the Supreme Court, Enrique Petracchi, interrupting from the dais, when the secretary of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Romina Picolotti, was detailing aspects of the comprehensive project for the recovery of the Matanza-Riachuelo river, which runs across the city of Buenos Aires and into the Río de la Plata (River Plate) estuary.
Picolotti said that in 15 yea…
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Michael Deibert
KINGSTON, Sep 26 2006 (IPS) – When Jamaica s Health Ministry recently launched an anti-HIV stigma campaign titled Getting on with Life prominently featuring two HIV-positive Jamaicans speaking publicly about their experiences living with the disease, it was something of a watershed moment for groups like Jamaica AIDS Support, formed in 1991 to combat the spread of AIDS and HIV.
There is a general acceptance now that HIV affects everybody, said Anne Marie Dobson, the organisation s public education coordinator The government has enormously supported HIV programmes And overall, there has been improvement in the way people think and feel about HIV.
For those among the 25,000 Jamaicans that the Ministry of Health estimates are living with HIV, an estimat…
Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Nov 6 2006 (IPS) – Climate change will devastate Africa without substantial help from the world community, according to a new report released at the opening of a major U.N. climate change conference in Nairobi, Kenya Monday.
Africa is the least responsible for climate change but will be hit the hardest, said Nick Nuttall, spokesperson for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
New scientific data shows that Africa is more vulnerable to the impacts than previously thought, Nuttall told IPS from Nairobi.
Seventy million people and 30 percent of Africa s coastal infrastructure face the risk of coastal flooding by 2080 linked to rising sea levels, the report found. More than one-third of the habitats that support African …
Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW, Dec 1 2006 (IPS) – The budget for treatment of HIV and AIDS has been doubled in Russia, but patients are complaining they still do not have access to adequate treatment.
Chief epidemiologist Gennady Onishchencko has blamed the bureaucracy for acute shortage of AIDS/HIV medicines. A problem in the sufficiency of antiretroviral drugs in Russia exists, he said in a statement. We know about this issue and are trying to regulate it, but I will say that it won t be solved right now.
In all 11,861 people have died of AIDS in Russia in the past 20 years, the Russian Federal Consumer Protection and Human Welfare Control Service (Rospotrebnadzor) reports. More than 362,000 HIV infection cases had been registered by Nov 30, 80 percent of them aged 1…
Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI, Jan 21 2007 (IPS) – We were told to come for this celebration because it is a celebration to end poverty, Edward Njeru, driver of a tuktuk (a three-wheel vehicle used as a taxi in urban areas), said about the World Social Forum (WSF) that opened here Saturday.
He told IPS, I hope this poverty really ends. Njeru, who takes home between 14 to 43 dollars per month, barely enough to meet his needs, was with about 30 of his colleagues who paraded their colourful tuktuks in Uhuru Park, where the WSF opening ceremony took place.
Besides the tuktuks, bicycle taxi drivers displayed their boda bodas , which have become a popular means of transport in many parts of the country.
The parades of tuktuks and boda bodas reflected the theme for the sevent…
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