by Beth | Oct 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
UNICEF, UNAIDS and other partners launched a global campaign focusing on the enormous impact of HIV/AIDS on children, saying it was a disgrace that fewer than 5 per cent of HIV-positive children receive treatment and that millions of children who have lost parents to...
by Beth | Sep 20, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Hospitals run by Sisters of Charity in South Carolina and Billings Montana are in the News.Providence Hospital Northeast has scaled back its expansion plans after state health officials last month rejected a request to add 50beds. The facility’s owner, Sisters of...
by Beth | Aug 17, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Editorial: Create malaria fund to lower drug cost One of the most effective ways of battling malaria in Africa would be for wealthy countries to create a fund to purchase anti-malaria drugs developed from the Chinese herb wormwood, this Los Angeles Times editorial...
by Beth | Aug 10, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A big jump in malaria cases in Ethiopia is raising fears of a new epidemic of the dangerous disease sweeping the Horn of Africa country, the United Nations warned yesterday. Ethiopian health officials are working with UN agencies to distribute medicine and...
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...
