Saturday, 11 February 2012

POVERTY: PHILIPPINES: Mindanao hospitals on alert for Leptospirosis

›
CAGAYAN DE ORO, 5 January 2012 (IRIN)  Photo: Ana Santos/IRIN Cagayan de Oro City has a recorded 173 cases of leptospirosis Hospitals i...

Malaria: Where’s the problem?

›
4 Jan, 2012:  Wellcome Trust : Catherine Moyes The spatial distribution of Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity in 2010. Around...

POVERTY: Ethiopia: Frankincense trees under threat

›
Source: Press Association : 23 December 2011  Flickr/Alexbip Boswellia trees could see a dramatic drop in numbers The production of fra...

MALNUTRITION: Climate change killing trees across the Sahel

›
Busani Bafana : 19 December 2011  Flickr/Marco Bellucci Trees in the Sahel are disappearing fast Trees throughout Africa's Sahel re...

POVERTY: ZIMBABWE: Growing risk of waterborne diseases in rural areas

›
MHONDORO, 3 January 2012 (IRIN)  Photo: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) An aid worker treats a cholera patient in Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, on...

POVERTY: PAKISTAN: "An unforgiveable sin"

›
LAHORE, 3 January 2012 (IRIN)  Photo: Kamila Hyat/IRIN A Pakistan charity has put up cradles with an appeal to place infants in them ra...

POVERTY: India: The poverty game

›
Barun Roy / Dec 29, 2011, Deep down, our rulers don't want the aam admi to get out of his rut In this largest of all democracies – I...

POVERTY: SAHEL: Thousands of Touaregs flee into Burkina Faso

›
OUAGADOUGOU, 10 February 2012 (IRIN)  Photo: Tugela Ridley/IRIN A group of Tuareg men in traditional dress silhouetted on the crest of a ...

POVERTY: MYANMAR-THAILAND: Dying for lack of reproductive healthcare

›
BANGKOK, 10 February 2012 (IRIN)  Photo: Contributor/IRIN Disadvantaged at birth Lack of access to reproductive health services in Myan...

MALNUTRITION: East Africa: Fears of a new drought as La Niña returns

›
JOHANNESBURG, 10 February 2012 (IRIN)  Photo: Kate Holt/IRIN Families queue for food at a feeding point in Mogadishu last year The clim...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012

POVERTY: Where Afghan humanitarianism ends and development begins

›
KABUL, 30 January 2012 (IRIN) -  Photo: Heba Aly/IRIN Many Afghans are dependent on aid year after year Afghanistan suffers from cycli...

MALNUTRITION: Weather data for all

›
JOHANNESBURG, 1 February 2012 (IRIN) -  Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN More information to prepare for what the weather will do Disaster...

TUBERCULOSIS: NIH-Funded HIV Clinical Research Sites to Join Pediatric TB Vaccine Study

›
Several U.S. government-funded HIV/AIDS clinical research sites in Africa will join other collaborators in an ongoing clinical trial testing...

Malaria mortality "underestimated"

›
LONDON, 3 February 2012 (IRIN) -  Photo: Wendy Stone/IRIN The reverses of the 1980s and 1990s signal the fragility of the gains in the wa...

POVERTY: COTE D'IVOIRE: Leprosy fight still flagging

›
DIMBOKRO/TOUMODI, 8 February 2012 (IRIN) -  Photo: Olivier Monnier/IRIN Samuel, who lives with leprosy, is learning how to become a shoem...

MALARIA: WHO reaction to IHME paper in The Lancet

›
 Craig Moscetti cmoscetti@globalhealth.org  February 3, 2012 WHO urges the malaria global health community to exercise caution when inte...

MALNUTRITION: SAHEL: Donors learning funding lessons - slowly

›
DAKAR, 6 February 2012 (IRIN) -  Photo: ILRI/Steve Mann Niger is worst-hit by the 2011 Sahel-wide drought This year donors are stepping...

POVERTY: SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Pressgangs "still operating in Khartoum"

›
JUBA-KHARTOUM, 8 February 2012 (IRIN) - Rebel groups fighting South Sudan’s government have bolstered their ranks through the forced recr...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012

POVERTY: UGANDA: Charcoal boon a bust for forests

›
GULU, 7 February 2012 (IRIN)  Photo: Charles Akena/IRIN Uganda loses some 80,000 hectares of forest every year Once a fortnight, Moses ...

POVERTY: The Global Fund at Ten Years: Not a Happy Birthday

›
Bernard Rivers Last week, the Global Fund celebrated its tenth anniversary. These past 12 months, which ended with the Board persuading the...