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SIERRA LEONE: A Quarter of Vital Donated Drugs Missing or Stolen
- Inter Press Service
Three-year-old David bolts up from his feverish stooper as a needle pricks his thumb, producing a tiny bead of blood. He looks down horrified but is too exhausted to cry and falls back into his mother's lap as the blood is wiped away.
JAPAN: Aid Cut to Hit Health Campaigns
- Inter Press Service
International campaigns against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are headed for cuts in funding assistance, now that Japan is reducing its Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budget in the wake of the disaster that hit the country in March.
AIDS Funding Gap Threatens Treatment Targets
- Inter Press Service
A staggering nine million people are still awaiting HIV treatment, yet the 22 billion dollars the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) says is needed to give them access to medicine and care has far from materialised.
INDIA: Despite Fears of a Bubble, Microfinance Needed for Growth
- Inter Press Service
Sambari Naik never went to school and is determined to give her daughter Rebati an education. But 13-year-old Rebati seldom did well in her studies, often dozing over her books beside a flickering and smoky kerosene wick lamp in their house, which had no electricity.
BRAZIL: Haiti Is Here
- Inter Press Service
In the powerful verses of the song 'Haiti', Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil described similarities between two countries at different ends of the development spectrum in Latin America, summed up by the words 'Haiti is here'.
PERU-US: Washington Urged to Cooperate with Humala
- Inter Press Service
The United States should seek cooperative relations with Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala, a number of Andean specialists urged here Monday.
SRI LANKA: Peace Dividend Skips Remote Villages
- Inter Press Service
The road to Unnichchai in eastern Sri Lanka makes for a nerve-wracking journey trying to avoid large crater-like potholes, squeezing across narrow bridges, and passing by a patchwork landscape of paddy fields - both abandoned and cultivated - with not a building in sight.
World Bank Calibrating its Measurement of Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
The World Bank is working to update the mechanisms it uses to measure the effects of the financing it provides, particularly in environmental and social terms, now that it is gearing up to administer the new Green Climate Fund.
IBSA: India Stakes Its Bets on Training Africa
- Inter Press Service
Of the various cooperation programmes Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, plans for an India-Africa Virtual University (IAVU) take pride of place.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Boosting Small Enterprise to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Small and medium-sized companies in Central America are the targets of foreign development aid programmes aimed at fighting the region's high poverty levels.
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