Britain launches plan to boost healthcare in poor countries
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched an international initiative Wednesday to improve the quality of healthcare in some of the world&#39;s poorest countries.
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs has a novel way to tackle African poverty: Shower more aid on the world's poorest continent.
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The World Health Organization launched on Monday its first intergovernmental review of the pharmaceuticals sector to try to find ways of making medicines more easily available to the world's poorest people.
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Prime Minister Paul Martin announces plans to improve health care for Canada's indigenous people.
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Britain's finance minister Gordon Brown began a week-long mission to Africa to pitch his ambitious proposal for a "new Marshall Plan" to help lift the continent out of chronic poverty.
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LONDON -- The British government offered a sweeping plan yesterday for the Group of Seven nations to dramatically increase aid to the developing world and to forgive 100 percent of Africa's $70 billion in debt.
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Details of the government's plan to tackle vulnerable children before they are born are to be revealed.
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Britain is on course to surpass the United States and could have the best health system in the world, an American health strategist said on Thursday.
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Global health leaders meeting in  Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on  medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make  those now on the market available to the poor.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown pledged over 2.0 billion pounds (2.9 million euros, 3.7 million dollars) to help eradicate poverty in the developing world and give a brighter future for millions of children.
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War, poverty and diseases such as AIDS are adding to mental health problems in poorer countries, which are generally ill-equipped to respond to depression, schizophrenia and other such ailments, according to health officials.
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Better financing of public services like water and health care will ease developing world poverty, says Oxfam.
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Seven developing countries in Africa and Asia will be the first to take part in a new global health campaign aimed at directing aid more effectively at the basic needs of poor countries, Britain said on Wednesday.
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The UK must do more to help support the health systems in developing countries, the former chief of the NHS says.
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Britain will provide more debt relief for the world&#39;s poorest countries and challenge other rich governments to do the same, Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government said Sunday.
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Gordon Brown says the UK will back a multi-million pound battle to ensure poorest get a new malaria vaccine.
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The countries plan to raise at least $300 million next year to help pay for the treatment of children with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.