Agriculture & Nutrition
ZIMBABWE: Five year plan to battle HIV/AIDS on farms launched
Mali’s largest union sent a shot across the government’s bows on Monday by making good on a promise to hold a 24-hour strike, describing it as a “warning” and vowing to press on until its demands were met....
Why children die for lack of a toilet
(Cape Town, November 9, 2006) Simply installing a flush toilet in the home increases by almost 60 percent a Peruvian child’s chances of surviving to her first birthday, according to data in the 2006 Human Development Report documenting the often-fatal consequences of inadequate sanitation in devel...
In South Africa, a dramatic shift on AIDS–treatment, prevention get new emphasis
JOHANNESBURG -- The South African government is seeking to shake off years of international denunciation for its handling of the AIDS epidemic -- including a fixation on the supposed protective powers of beets and lemons -- while expanding treatment, testing and prevention programs, officials and ac...
World Health Organization backs DDT for malaria control, reversing 30 year policy
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reversed a 30-year policy by endorsing the use of DDT for malaria control.The chemical is sprayed inside houses to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes....
Africa gives ‘ABC’ mixed grades. AIDS abstinence plan raises awareness but has small effect on behavior.
TORONTO, Aug. 14 -- "ABC," the AIDS-prevention strategy widely promulgated both here and abroad, got a distinctly mixed report card as African countries reported their experiences to delegates at the 16th International AIDS Conference here....
Largess with clear limits: in Africa and elsewhere, Gates Foundation takes focused approach to giving.
KHAYELITSHA, South Africa -- Bill and Melinda Gates came to the cramped tin shack of Nkosebaca Thingathinga one day this month to understand how the 61-year-old man had contracted tuberculosis -- a major focus of research for the couple's foundation -- an astounding four times. ...
U.N. group sets compromise on AIDS policy. Document sets no targets, cites risks to women.
UNITED NATIONS, June 2 -- Delegates to a United Nations conference on AIDS reached agreement Friday after difficult negotiations on a policy declaration that sets no targets for the number of people who should be treated and makes only indirect reference to high-risk groups such as homosexuals, pros...
Food or drugs? How famine and hunger compound Africa’s AIDS crisis.
Delegates at the UN summit on Aids have been hammering out the finer details of a declaration to combat HIV/Aids.Meanwhile, 40 million people worldwide are living with the disease.In countries like Kenya, the prospect of getting anti-retroviral drugs is improving - there has been a six-fold increase...
AIDS vaccine testing goes overseas. U.S. funds $120 million trial despite misgivings of some researchers.
CHONBURI, Thailand -- Inside a ramshackle Buddhist temple here on the country's southeastern coast, curious villagers gathered last fall as part of the United States' biggest gamble yet on stopping the AIDS pandemic....
Cure for neglected diseases: funding. Large doses of donations will lead to new drugs, report says.
Drug and biotechnology companies have launched more than 60 projects in recent years to discover new treatments for a wide array of neglected diseases, a report has found, and the result could be nine or 10 drugs by the end of this decade with the potential to improve the lives of the world's poores...
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