The Week With IPS 11/7

	The Young, Female Face of HIV in East and Southern Africa Miriam Gathigah Experts are raising alarm that years of HIV interventions throughout Africa have failed to stop infection among young women 15 to 24 years old. “Prevention is failing for young women,” says Lillian Mworeko, HIV expert with International Community of Women Living with HIV in Eastern Africa, based ... MORE > >
	More Women Managers in Argentina, But They’re Still Doing the Chores Fabiana Frayssinet In Argentina there are more and more women in management-level positions in the public and private sectors, although they still have to forge their way amidst gender stereotypes, while shouldering the double burden of home and work responsibilities. After earning a university degree, ML started ... MORE > >
	Choosing Between Death and Death in Pakistan Ashfaq Yusufzai Residents of the Khyber Agency, one of seven administrative districts that comprise northern Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), are in the worst possible predicament: either course of action they choose now, they say, could result in death. As Pakistan’s military offensive ... MORE > >
	Children in Aleppo Forced Underground to Go to School Shelly Kittleson Winter has not yet hit this nearly besieged city, but children are already attending classes in winter coats and stocking hats. Cold, damp underground education facilities are less exposed to regime barrel bombs and airstrikes but necessitate greater bundling to prevent common seasonal viruses ... MORE > >
	Hopes of Controlling Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak Remain Grim Lansana Fofana The fight against the deadly Ebola epidemic ravaging West Africa seems to be hanging in the balance as Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health and Sanitation Dr Abubakar Fofana told IPS that the government is overwhelmed by the outbreak. “We were not prepared for this Ebola scourge. It took us by ... MORE > >
	Inside Pakistan's Untapped Fishing Industry Zofeen Ebrahim If you want to know what ‘sea traffic’ looks like, just go down to the Karachi Harbour. Built in 1959, the dockyard houses close to 2,000 big and small boats anchored in the grey sludge at the edge of Pakistan’s southern port city, which opens into the Arabian Sea. Life on the jetty, an all-male ... MORE > >
	Middle-Income Kenya Still in Need of Aid Miriam Gathigah Coffee farmer Gabriel Kimwaki from Nyeri County, in central Kenya, is considering “giving up farming altogether”. He told IPS that the returns are too low “and with every harvesting season, I am making less and less profit.” His is not a unique story. Francis Njuguna, an agricultural ... MORE > >
	Dirty Energy, Dirty Tactics Stephen Leahy “Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher than ever, and we're seeing more and more extreme weather and climate events….We can't prevent a large scale disaster if we don't heed this kind of hard science.” Question: Is that statement about the latest Intergovernmental Panel on ... MORE > >
	Growing Up Among the Dead Karlos Zurutuza The walls of the Association for the Martyrs of Serekaniye are covered with the portraits of those fallen in combat in this northern Syrian town. Ali Khalil has buried everyone and each of them with the help of Diar, his 13-year-old son. Inside this building west of Serekaniye, 680 kilometres ... MORE > >
	Lacklustre Early Warning System Brings Tragedy to a Languid Mountainside Amantha Perera When early warning systems fail, death comes quickly to unsuspecting victims of natural disasters. It is a reality that millions of Sri Lankans have experienced repeatedly in the last decade, and yet those responsible for preventing human fatalities continue to make the same mistakes. The latest ... MORE > >
	OPINION: One Mexico, or Many? Joaquín Roy Mexico can charm, irritate, wound, inspire and confuse the casual visitor as well as the informed researcher. But no one is ever left indifferent by it. Mexico leaves an indelible mark. To understand it properly, one has to assume that there is not one Mexico, but many. This is partly what made ... MORE > >
	Child Poverty in Spain Seen Through the Eyes of Encarni Inés Benítez “I would like to have a big house, and I wish my family didn’t have to go out and ask for food or clothes,” Encarni, who just turned 12, tells IPS in the small apartment she shares with five other family members in a poor neighbourhood in the southern Spanish city of Málaga. This girl with ... MORE > >
	Fighting the “Neighbour’s Disease” in Mozambique Mercedes Sayagues Mozambique is reeling under the twin burden of HIV and cervical cancer. Eleven women die of cervical cancer every day, or 4,000 a year. Yet this cancer is preventable and treatable, if caught early. Among African countries, Mozambique vies neck and neck with Malawi for the saddest ... MORE > >