Agriculture & Nutrition
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...
AFRICA: Health worker migration–can it be stemmed?
Millions of people remain in abject poverty in Ethiopia as a result of the impact of the country's border dispute with Eritrea, a UN envoy to the region said on Friday....
BOTSWANA: Diarrhea epidemic kills 470 children
Tens of people have died and thousands more are threatened with starvation in the Burundian provinces of Kirundo in the north and Muyinga in the northeast, according to local administrative officials....
UGANDA: Global Fund probe reveals massive graft
An upbeat New Year's message by Prime Minister Themba Dlamini has been rebutted by Swaziland's pro-democracy groups, with labour unions calling for a general strike in January to protest lavish royal spending and a controversial draft constitution....
Saving millions for just a few dollars: cost-effective health measures for poor nations
Who would have thought those annoyances were one of the great health-care investments of our age? At a cost of $5 for every year of life they save or year of disability they prevent, speed bumps are a bargain that no health minister in a poor country is going to want to pass up. It's in the same lea...
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