HEALTH: Global Agenda Increasingly Disease-Driven By Michael J. CarterSEATTLE, Washington - At the end of last month, U.S. President George W. Bush signed a global health package that effectively tripled U.S. spending over the next five years to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in poor countries, to 48 billion dollars. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: South Africa Beats Deadline on Water, Sanitation By Thalif DeenSTOCKHOLM - South Africa and Madagascar, two African nations participating in the Stockholm International Water Conference currently underway in the Swedish capital, provide a contrasting picture of where they stand -- or fall -- in achieving the U.N.'s heavily-trumpeted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Wastewater Crops Feeding Millions By Thalif DeenSTOCKHOLM - Vegetables, rice and other cereals in at least 53 cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America may someday come with warning labels that read "this is a byproduct of raw sewage". MORE >>
Q&A: 'If You Feed the Land, It Will Feed You Back' Interview with UNCCD Executive Secretary Luc GnacadjaBONN - Luc Gnacadja, who took over as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) last October, is a man with a mission -- a mission that goes beyond explaining that his job is not to battle deserts. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Water Progresses, Sanitation Regresses By Thalif DeenSTOCKHOLM - The world's poorest nations are making halting progress in water, but little or no tangible improvement in sanitation -- two of the basic necessities of life. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Escaping the Poverty Trap By Mercedes SayaguesPRETORIA - What do they have in common -- the landless widow with a deaf son in Bangladesh, the 12-year-old miner in Kyrgyzstan, the Ugandan farming couple with 12 children and the South African domestic worker who loses her home when her husband dies and her job when she breaks a leg? They, and their children, are trapped in chronic poverty, even as their countries show economic growth. MORE >>
POLITICS: U.S. Debates Putin’s Ambitions Analysis by Daniel LubanWASHINGTON - Just days after the outbreak of war between Russia and Georgia, the debate in Washington over how to view the crisis historically has become nearly as contentious as the debate over how to respond politically. MORE >>
Q&A: Women Do Most, With Least Assistance Interview with Lennart Båge, President of the International Fund for Agricultural DevelopmentROME - The international debate on effective aid that is shaped by developing countries' needs rather than donors' priorities will be resumed when ministers from over 100 countries, and members of development agencies, donor organisations and civil society gather for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra Sep. 2-4. MORE >>
HEALTH: Safe Sex With HIV - and Without a Condom? By Daniela Estrada*MEXICO CITY - The Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS set off a small firestorm of debate by asserting that people living with the virus can have sexual relations without a condom and without endangering their uninfected partners, under certain conditions. MORE >>
POLITICS: ‘UNAMID In Boxing Ring With Hands Bound’ By Haider RizviUNITED NATIONS - Calls for an increased U.N. peacekeeping presence are growing as warring parties in Sudan’s troubled region of Darfur remain mired in a vicious cycle of violence that has taken about half a million lives in the past four years. MORE >>
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