by Beth | Jul 6, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Africa Phone is a project inside Motorola, triggered by people who have discovered a remarkable statistic: that when 20 percent of a population has secure phone communications, dictators get overthrown. Take a country like Zimbabwe in Southern Africa—one where the...
by Beth | Jun 30, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Internationla Poverty newsletter has compiled some new resources on HIV/Aids and Development.”Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Development and Humanitarian Programmes” AIDS has radically changed the context in which development and humanitarian organizations...
by Beth | Jun 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The researchers said their findings were particularly important for areas where both HIV and malaria were rife… Malaria kills over one million people a year, with more than 90% of cases reported in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV drugs block malaria in tests Resistance...
by Beth | Jun 24, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
One of five children die before they are five years old. About 30% die from malaria, around 45 000 a year.Freeman said one reason for the high death figures was the problem of access to health facilities in a country where about 60% of the population live more than...
by Beth | Jun 10, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a finding that may open promising new ways to attack malaria, scientists are reporting today that two fungi that are harmless to humans and the environment can be used to kill mosquitoes. The fungi are already licensed in Western countries to control aphids,...
by Beth | May 30, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In the recent letter reporting on their meeting in Paris leaders of many branches of the Vincentian Family propose the following as among the more vulnerable populations in the world today.1. Children 2. Indigenous Peoples 3. Migrants 4. Women 1. The State of World’s...
