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12 Countries that Kicked Child Mortality in the You-know-what

From On September 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Some may have seen my most recent article providing some highlights of a new UNICEF report on the global progress in reducing child mortality since 1990.

As always with rich reports like these, there is too much valuable info to squeeze into one article, so I’m making use of this space to draw [...]

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Uruguay on the Verge of a Marijuana Revolution

From On July 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Diana Cariboni

Reactions were prompted worldwide, from Time magazine to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, when this small South American country said it would legalise, control and tax the marijuana market.

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A New Year for Gender Masala

From On January 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This is truly a New Year in many ways: Gender Masala and I are in transition in 2010.

I am moving to Maputo, Mozambique,  to work in health reporting. Gender Masala will remain in the IPS Gender Portal with a more collective identity,  infused by several  IPS writers.

I like the word transitions: it evokes [...]

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Out of darkness: facing breast cancer

From On December 28, 2009 · 9 Comments

Guest blogger: Paola Rolletta, IPS stringer in Mozambique.

I feel neither more “good” nor more “patient”. I am a hard-headed woman, as always. Attached to life, as ever!

The day when my friend Pigi, my oncologist, told me that I had breast cancer, I cried desperately. The first thing I did was to phone my [...]

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Famous and infamous births

From On December 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

When is a photo of a woman giving birth considered pornographic? Take your pick:

A. When it is shown in a pornographic magazine, film or website.
B. Never.
C. When it is emailed to government officials urging action to improve public health.

One could argue about A and B but this blog is [...]

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A spiritual gift

From On November 23, 2009 · 1 Comment

What drives a 17-year-old girl to enter a monastery? Today she is 30, and still happy about her choice. Her eyes sparkle and her laughter comes easy. She exudes peace.

I will call her Gabra (gift, in Amharic), for our conversation was private. I met her at a monastery near Lalibela, the mystical city of [...]

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Family health managers

From On November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Children’s health and the invisible Ethiopian men

From On November 17, 2009 · 4 Comments

Guest posting by Gifti Nadi. After ten years with the International Women in Media Foundation in Washington DC, she is back in her home country, Ethiopia.

This was not an ordinary polio vaccination day for the children of Babile and Kombolcha, small towns about 500 km East of Addis Ababa.  Ferenjis (foreigners in Amharic) [...]

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HILARIOUS CONDOM ADS

From On September 21, 2009 · 1 Comment

Gender Masala has been dealing with serious topics seriously …it’s time for a fun break!  Check out these hilarious condom ads from several continents. They make safe sex fun.

Ranging  from sassy dialogue to black humour, these are one-minute comedies with a smart punchline. The Mother from Hell and the Spoiled Brat skits have [...]

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Missing the Point? A critical review of MDG

From On September 14, 2009 · 4 Comments

Next time you read a story or a press release moaning about how country X will not reach the Millennium Development Goals, think twice – whose goal and whose target is it? We know the deadline but do we know the baseline?

Instead of striking a balance between ambition and realism, the MDGs have become [...]

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