Mother Robin Lim named 2011 CNN Hero
International news network CNN named Robin Lim, a Filipino-American midwife who helps poor women have healthy pregnancies and safe births, as 2011 CNN Hero of the Year.
DEBBY NG
Action Against Dengue Begins to Pay Off
Sri Lanka makes progress in the battle against mosquito-borne dengue fever.
IRIN
Sex, not drug users, causing most new HIV infections in Bali.
Bali’s numbers fall below the average condom use among sex workers nationwide.
IRIN
HIV/AIDS: "Unprecedented progress", Despite Poor Funding
Latest figures from the 2011 UNAIDS World AIDS Day report.
IRIN
HIV response at a crossroads
Despite improved access in Asia-Pacific region, there are still nearly two new HIV infections for every person who starts treatment.
IRIN
A Snip in Time
Vasectomies are slowly gaining favour as a family planning method in North Sulawesi.
VICTORIA NGANTUNG & DESTA PRATAMA
Drugs Flushed Out
Hospitals in Thailand fear floods will hit drug supplies.
IRIN
Extreme Rehab
Resource-strapped villages in Nepal chain up child drug addicts.
IRIN
Neonatal Care for Refugees by Refugees
Staff at the maternity clinic in the Mae La refugee camp learn about special care for newborns.
IRIN
Digital Vaccine for Malaria
Cambodia uses text messaging as weapon in malaria war.
IRIN
Menstrual Quarantine
Monthly imprisonment for women in Nepal.
IRIN
Nepal: Paying the Price of Urbanisation
A health crisis is brewing as diseases such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease spread with urbanisation.
IRIN
Nuclear Crises Then and Now
The Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan triggers memories for a young man whose father was, along with thousands of other Ukrainian workers, sent by the Soviet government to help clean up after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.
ROSTISLAV GOLYAK
Bribes against Breastmilk
NGOs flay Nestlé’s infant formula marketing strategy in Laos
IRIN
A Nonya’s Beauty Rituals
Have a bird’s nest facial at the only Peranakan spa in the world.
VIVIENNE KHOO