by Beth | Jan 22, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Janu 22, 2004 – Malaria, a disease forgotten in wealthy countries, is advancing, killing a million people or more a year, at least 700,000 of them African children. … The lack of a global lobby against malaria has brought the world to the sad, absurd point...
by Beth | Jan 18, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Making the poor a priority is a defining element of the church’s contribution to the environmental debate. The poor are vulnerable to environmental hazards.” “Poor families often live on the margins of society: in urban areas where their housing is...
by Beth | Jan 17, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
LONDON (AP) – The World Health Organization and other aid agencies are undermining the battle against malaria by funding cheaper and less-effective drugs, contributing to tens of thousands of deaths of children in Africa, researchers asserted. The scientists,...
by Beth | Jan 15, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Chemicals which had been sitting on a shelf at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) for more than 80 years could hold the key to finding a cure for the killer disease malaria. In 2001 scientists at the NIMR in The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, stumbled across the...
by Beth | Jan 14, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Online Volunteering and its very real impact on developing countries… and on volunteers themselves . The UN Volunteers program (www.unvolunteers.org) featured two new articles about online volunteering in international settings in the December 2003 issue of UNV...
by Beth | Jan 11, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Tim Williams, CM alerts us to ….MELBOURNE, “We must begin to understand poverty as a multi-dimensional concept that goes beyond just material deprivation. “MELBOURNE, January 9, 2004 (theage.com.au): Patrick McClure, chief executive of Mission...
