by Beth | Mar 28, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Combatting malaria made business sense.March 27, 2005 EDITORIAL In 1998, the Australia-based mining company BHP Billiton began building a huge aluminum smelter outside Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. The company knew that malaria plagued the region. It gave all its... by Beth | Mar 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
More than 10 million youngsters under the age of five die each year from a variety of preventable causes, the World Health Organization says. More than 40% of the deaths occur in southern and western Africa, based on mortality rates from 2000 to 2003, with pneumonia,... by Beth | Mar 21, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
AKAR, Senegal – As far as causes go, malaria may well be the least trendy. Luckily, when more than a dozen African musical superstars converged on this coastal capital to strut their stuff against the disease, Africa’s most persistent scourge, the... by Beth | Mar 14, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The number of cases of the most serious type of malaria around the world has increased to an estimated 515 million, according to a study in the journal Nature, making the disease possibly more deadly than AIDS. The study, which counted nearly twice the number of cases... by Beth | Mar 8, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“We as an organization are able to engage individuals on any level that they’re comfortable with and interested in,” says Jewell.”You can do anything when you volunteer with us,” says volunteer manager Rebecca Jewell. “Everything... by Beth | Mar 7, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a world of plenty, 1 billion people are so poor, their lives are in danger. How to change that for good. Time Magazine (USA)This is a story about ending poverty in our time. It is not a forecast. I am not predicting what will happen, only explaining what can...
