UN Reports Progress on Health, Poverty
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LONDON Sept. 15, 2004 - Progress toward boosting the status of women and providing reproductive health care to all has been steady over the past decade, but billions more dollars are needed to reach goals
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UNITED NATIONS: A global effort to fight poverty with better population management that UN officials once hoped could &quot;change the world&quot; has made limited progress after one decade, a new UN study said on Wednesday.
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The coming year is critical for the United Nations to make the necessary reforms to deal effectively with global threats, from HIV/AIDS, nuclear proliferation and genocide
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Each year more than one million babies in sub-Saharan Africa die before they are a month old because of a lack of essential health care, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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Developing countries are making real gains in promoting reproductive health and womenâs rights, but they are hampered by inadequate support from rich nations and serious problems persist, Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations
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Thailand has made substantial progress on the health of women and children, but needs to provide more education on preventing HIV and close the health gap between rich and poor, a UNICEF study found Friday.
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Some countries have taken major strides to improve the rights and reproductive health of women but more must be done to meet goals set at a UN conference a decade ago, according to a report released Tuesday.
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President-elect Hifikepunye Pohamba says good health in a country contributes to its economic growth, while poor health can drive any nation into poverty.
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The world is meeting targets on improving access to clean drinking water, but falling behind on sanitation goals fixed at a summit four years ago, the United Nations said Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - A combination of environmental and nutritional programs that target the poor can substantially reduce childhood mortality globally, new research suggests.
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23 September 2004 - Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year - more than any other cause - and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today as it published
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More than 1 billion children suffer from poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS, a new UNICEF report says, indicating that gains in reducing child deaths in
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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Tuesday, December 1 is World AIDS Day, and in anticipation of this event, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization has released a report documenting the increase in the spread of AIDS worldwide.
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The World Bank and member countries are moving to help poor nations tackle corruption, after months of discussions.
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15 September 2004 - The world has made genuine progress towards achieving the ambitious programme outlined at the 1994 Cairo population conference, a United Nations review released today finds, but a serious funding shortfall is obstructing efforts to
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The United Nations is closely following the situation in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is reportedly ill, a UN spokesman said Thursday.