Agriculture & Nutrition

AIDS funding binds longevity of millions to US

by David Brown Washington Post July 26, 2008

President Bush plans to sign a bill next week that commits the United States to spending about $40 billion over the next five years to fight AIDS overseas, a major expansion of what many consider his most successful foreign policy initiative....

AIDS drugs reaching more people in developing world, UN says

by Colum Lynch Washington Post June 10, 2008

UNITED NATIONS, June 9 -- About 3 million people infected with the AIDS virus in the developing world received life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs last year, a 42 percent increase over 2006 in the number with access to the medicines, a U.N. report said Monday....

In Sri Lanka, local government workers, like this man from the Colombo Municipal Council, are regularly deployed to spray insecticide in homes, gardens and along roadways islandwide. Photo: Christine Jayasinghe/IRIN

Eradicating malaria worldwide seen as a distant goal, at best

by David Brown Washington Post April 26, 2008

A generation after the first attempt failed, people are once more talking seriously about eradicating malaria. ...

Sri Lanka: on track to eliminate malaria

by IRIN April 24, 2008

Sri Lanka, once among Asia’s worst affected nations for malaria, is now close to eliminating it. The sharp drop in the number of reported cases to 196 in 2007 - with no deaths - demonstrates that the national malaria control programme has been effective even in the traditionally disease-prone nort...

Children orphaned by AIDS and aged between 11 and 18, living in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, were given cameras to document their lives. Irenio, 18, took this photo of his brother looking outside their home. Irenio and his 16-year-old sister Saquina have headed their family since March, when they lost their mother to AIDS.  Photo: BBC See more pictures

Administration and House leaders agree on bill authorizing a tripling of AIDS funding; money must still be appropriated

by David Brown Washington Post February 28, 2008

House leaders from both parties and the White House yesterday reached agreement on a bill that would more than triple funding for the Bush administration's global AIDS program, already the largest foreign aid initiative aimed at fighting a single disease in U.S. history....

Drug resistant TB ‘at new high’

by BBC News February 26, 2008

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The one-child policy was introduced in the 1970’s to reduce population growth. Photo: AP

China may revamp one-child rule

by BBC News February 26, 2008

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Nutritional supplements and education are helping to save the lives of displaced children in the Central African Republic. Photo: © UNICEF/Holtz

Governments fail to invest enough to prevent malnutrition

by IRIN February 22, 2008

Nutrition experts say governments are not investing enough to prevent and treat malnutrition in women and children in poor countries....

African AIDS crisis continues despite $15 billion US initiative

by Craig Timberg Washington Post February 20, 2008

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced by...

Bush highlights malaria campaign

by BBC News February 19, 2008

President George W Bush has said the US will help provide 5.2 million mosquito nets as part of a broader campaign to tackle malaria in sub-Saharan Africa....

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