Breaking the desease and poverty cycle
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The first effective malaria vaccine promises to save millions of lives. Scientists were jubilant last Thursday when results of the trial involving children between one and four years in southern Mozambique
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate says we need to devote global resources to education to end poverty.
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The health of about 2 billion of the world's poor is being damaged because they lack access to clean energy, like electricity, and face exposure to smoke from open fires, scientists said on Thursday.
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It is rare for a foreign doctor to get to China&#39;s rural areas, where its AIDS epidemic was born and takes a horrible toll. But recently, two nurses and I ventured into a poor farming area, Nizui
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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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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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Our urban future, from Third World slums to the virtual Panopticon.
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Elizabeth Adak Shindu paid a high price to return home. She walked for 30 days, endured hunger and disease and used up the last of her life savings. When she finally reached this sprawling, dusty town, she found another family living on her land.
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ECONOMIST Roger McLean says that the Caribbean needs to take note of the effect that the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been having on both pillars of growth in the region - the labour force and investment.
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The evidence is in: we can stop diseases like malaria and TB from killing millions of people each year.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 27  (IPS) - Encouraging and rewarding good policies that lead  to sustainable economic growth is  key to poverty reduction, says  Paul Applegarth, chief executive officer of the  Millennium  Challenge Corporation in the United States.
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A growing international trade in discarded mobile phones is helping the worldâs poor. But will it poison the earth?
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One of the biggest reasons that very poor countries can&#39;t provide decent education and health care is that they are stuck in a cycle of debt owed to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and regional development banks, much of it dating to the
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In the gloomy shade deep in Africa's rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.
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WAR, poverty and HIV/Aids are causing more than half of the worldâs children to suffer, effectively denying them a childhood, according to a report today.
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A QUARTER of a billion people in some of the worldâs poorest and most populous countries in East Asia have been lifted out of extreme poverty by rapid economic growth over
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Working in poverty-stricken areas  gives corporate travelers an up-close look at global problems  such as disease, illiteracy or injustice. It also puts them in  a position to bring about change.