This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 13 program resources with Web links, and 13 journal article summaries on research from China, El Salvador, Namibia, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia.
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UNICEF’s yearly flagship report, The State of the World’s Children, launched 22 January 2008, makes a call to unite for child survival. Here is one in a series of related stories. LALITPUR, India, 19 February 2008 – Her name, ‘Abhilasha’, means ‘wish’ in Hindi. Not so long ago, she showed all the characteristic symptoms of severe undernutrition. Weighing just 4.5 kilograms, two-year-old Abhilasha had sunken eyes, a swollen belly and shriveled skin. The toddler might have died in a more...
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GURAVAL VILLAGE, Madhya Pradesh, India. In the pre-monsoon heat, the Akushwah family gathered under a Neem tree on their most important mission since a boy was born to the family a year ago. As the group waited for an auto rickshaw at the side of the main road from Bhopal to Delhi, they talked excitedly about how they had saved for a full year to fill their large steel bucket with a feast of chapattis, lentil dahl and channa, or chick peas.
If not for the huge food price increases that have more...
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The triple punch of rising food and energy prices, climate change and lagging investment in agriculture is posing fresh challenges for international development programmes and requires the United Nations to enhance cooperation worldwide, UN agency heads agreed at a panel in New York on July 11. The panel opened the 2008 operational activities session of the UN Social and Economic Council, also known as ECOSOC. It featured the expertise of UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman, along with the more...
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From Poverty to Power is a major new book from Oxfam International thatargues that ending the scourges of extreme poverty, inequality, and threatened environmental collapse is the greatest global challenge of the twenty-first century. The best way to tackle them is through a combination of active citizens and effective nation states.
Why active citizenship? Because people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny, fighting for rights and justice in their own society, more...
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By Alexandra Fullem, Policy Series Manager, Global Health Council .The Global Health Council Influentials Study Tour highlighted the work of the 2007 Gates Award for Global Health winner during a visit to Thailand Feb. 18-23, 2008 as it focused on the work of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA).
Since 1974, PDA has helped improve lives and strengthen communities in Thailand through its innovative approach to community development that has benefited more than 10 million p more...
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Latin America and the Caribbean is a region with enormous wealth disparities. even in countries with strong economic growth, the main characteristic is a concentration of wealth among small groups and the remaining distribution among a large number of increasingly impoverished people. In the last few decades, the increase in poverty has mainly affected women and girls and this feminization of poverty has translated into the feminization of HIV/AIDS. Women who are young and poor are increasingly more...
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