WHO: 5 Million Lack Basic Supplies
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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health care, the United Nations health agency said Thursday.
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Flooding in India and Bangladesh has now left some 1.5 million people homeless, officials say.
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The Bush administration is more than $400 million short in its plan to send emergency food aid to developing countries, leaving 9 million people at risk of going hungry, a coalition of aid groups said on Friday.
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The World Health Organisation has estimated that at least 70,000 people have died in the camps, most because of poor conditions. The number does not include those killed in militia and government attacks on villages and fleeing refugees.
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Rugged terrain, downed bridges, and the sheer volume of aid are slowing supply distribution.
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A third of children aged under five in Myanmar are suffering from malnutrition because of the failure of the military regime to reform the country, the World Food Program (WFP) said.
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Indebtedness of $5.5 billion will limit future US spending options.
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Global AIDS treatment will fall far short of a universal target to have five million people being treated by 2010, due to a continued lack of access to drugs by many of the world's impoverished people, said a new report.
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30 December 2004 - With the United Nations health agency warning that up to 5 million people in Southeast Asia are without basic services after Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today chaired a top level emergency meeting to
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People across South Asia struggle to cope with severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq is suffering a shortage of state-supplied wheat, sugar, and rice because of logistics and security problems, officials and traders said yesterday.
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MEXICO CITY -- African countries are facing a health crisis because they lack enough medical personnel to attend to the sick, a top international health official told a summit of government ministers and researchers Thursday.
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Basic supplies have not reached many parts of quake-ravaged Indonesia,  where the death toll is now 52,000.
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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The International Red Cross says more than a million people are without basic shelter five weeks after a devastating cyclone struck Bangladesh's low-lying coast.
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A panel has found that an additional $5.6 billion must be spent on schoolchildren every year to provide a basic education.
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More than 12 million families last year, about the same as in 2002, either didn't have enough food or worried about being able to feed everyone, the government reported Friday.