Monday, 27 December 2010

MALARIA: MYANMAR: Bullets not the main killer in conflict area

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  Photo: Steve Sandford/IRIN Saw Kwe, a medical officer with the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army MUN RU SHAI, 24 December 2010 (IRIN) - Saw...

POVERTY: The silence on EU subsidies is a gift to Eurosceptics

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Julian Glover guardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 December 2010 By not fighting to reform the common agricultural policy pro-Europeans are helping t...

POVERTY: Agricultural subsidies which may not be agricultural

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A most useful reference if you want to learn about the farm subsidies that skew the world's markets. http://farmsubsidy.org/

POVERTY: A Who's Who of Indian sleaze. Leaks of tapped phone conversations reveal how corruption propels India's booming economy.

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Praful Bidwai: Guardian.co.uk, 26 December 2010 The leak of nearly 6,000 tapped telephone conversations between corporate lobbyist and Bri...
Saturday, 25 December 2010

POVERTY: Suffer the Little Children: Poverty in the First World

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CHARLES M. BLOW :  December 24, 2010 As we celebrate this Christmas with the sound of tiny feet rushing toward a tree to rip open presents,...
Friday, 24 December 2010

POVERTY: Grameen Bank operation in question

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Dhaka, Dec 23 (bdnews24.com)—A parliamentary watchdog has sought explanation why Grameen Bank is not yet being operated under the Microcr...

POVERTY: China's ability to feed its people questioned by UN expert

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Jonathan Watts in Beijing guardian.co.uk,  23 December 2010   Vegetable sellers wait for customers at their stalls in a street market in...
Wednesday, 22 December 2010

MALNUTRITION: In Northern Thailand

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OUSA THANANGKUL M.D., JO ANNE WHITAKER M.D.and ELEANOR G. FORT Department of Pediatrics, Chiengmai Hospital, University of Chiengmai, Chien...

POVERTY: SOMALIA: UK Announces Emergency Humanitarian Assistance

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15 December 2010 Nairobi — The British government is to provide food, water, shelter and urgent medical assistance for hundreds of thousands...

MALNUTRITION: The silent killer -- Malnutrition stalks urban poor

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December 22, 2010 There is overwhelming evidence to establish a symbiotic relationship between malnutrition and children of migrant laboure...

MALNUTRITION: On the move in a warming world: The rise of climate refugees

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Geoffrey York (The Globe and Mail's Africa bureau chief.) Dec. 17, 2010  Five-year-old Fatime moves in slow motion, barely able to li...

MALNUTRITION: Malnourished Children in Yemen Need Plumpy'nut

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 William Lambers:  Dec 17, 2010   A severely malnourished child being treated in Yemen. Foods like plumpy'nut can bring children back t...

MALNUTRITION: Sudan: An Overview of MSF's Work in 2010

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December 16, 2010 “I was only six months pregnant. I could feel myself go into labor. I had really bad back and abdominal pain. I was wor...

MALNUTRITION: Peru nears goal of reducing child chronic malnutrition to 30%

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 Children from Apurimac region, southern-central Peru. Photo: ANDINA/ Vidal Tarqui. Lima, Dec. 14 (ANDINA). Peru is about to achieve its g...

MALNUTRITION: What is malnutrition?

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Diana Nabiruma : 15 December 2010 Malnutrition manifests in two forms; under-nutrition and over-nutrition. Under-nutrition, according to ...

MALNUTRITION: Thousands of South Sudan children in 'desperate' condition

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GENEVA — Thousands of children in south Sudan are living in "desperate" conditions due to serious malnutrition, as well as a lack ...

MALNUTRITION: Another Face of Hunger: Malnutrition and Stunting in Guatemala

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/slideshow/guatemala-devastating-effects-malnutrition-12387162

POVERTY: Millennium Development Goals & India

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October 20, 2010 K. S. Jacob (Professor K.S. Jacob is on the faculty of the Christian Medical College, Vellore.) PTI External Affairs M...

MALNUTRITION: Mumbai slum children facing acute malnutrition

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File photo: Paul Noronha Malnutrition, illness and abject poverty have taken a severe toll on children in Mumbai's Rafiq Nagar slum. ...