by Beth | May 20, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
With significant help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the aid group PATH is seeking to bolster UN efforts to combat malaria in Zambia, where it hopes to cut malaria-related deaths by 75%. The initiative, which received $35 million from the Gates...
by Beth | May 4, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
… critics argue that the WHO, UNICEF and its partners in the Roll Back Malaria program have been ineffective in fighting the disease. Voice of America UN: More People Getting Malaria Treatment By David McAlary Washington 03 May 2005 The World Health Organization...
by Beth | May 4, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
NEW YORK, 3 May 2005: UNICEF and the World Health Organization have jointly launched the first-ever ‘World Malaria Report’, at UNICEF headquarters in New York. United Nations Children’s Fund Officiating at the event were UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman,...
by Beth | May 3, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
At their meeting last February the leaders of the Vincentian Family addressed the following letter to the Italian government.Political Action Declaration Against Malaria To the Italian Government The Vincentian Family is present almost everywhere in the world and in...
by Beth | Apr 8, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a story in the New York Times one can think about the unintended consequences of technology. These flowers are cheap, thin plastic bags that are tossed to the ground by consumers. This kind of litter has reached a critical mass in Kenya – clogging streams,...
