BUENOS AIRES, May 12 (IPS) - Argentina is one of the countries in Latin America with the highest levels of vaccination coverage. But experts are concerned about the growing campaign by vaccine critics against immunisation. "Vaccines have saved as many lives as clean water. Risking not giving shots is like playing Russian roulette," Dr. Carlota Russ, secretary of the Argentine Paediatric Society’s Committee on Infectious Diseases, told IPS. Russ said that in industrialised countries, immunisation Read more [...]

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — One of the pleasures of writing a column in this Age of the Internet is that people from all over the world write to me to express their views and feelings about Argentina. But the pleasure of correspondence with readers since I resumed writing in the Herald some two-and-a-half years ago has become agony. These days, people are writing to me to express their fears that the government is stamping out democracy and, worst of all, hope. Most heartbreaking of all are the Read more [...]