Category: South Asia
There are 13 entries in this category.
May 02, 2007
How Do You Empower Women?
Some recent efforts focused on empowering women have in fact had the opposite effect.
Mar 28, 2007
TB Rates Decline, But XDR-TB Lurks in the Wings
The World Health Organization has announced that worldwide tuberculosis cases as a percentage of the population held steady in 2006. Yet more cases of tuberculosis are identified as extensively drug-resistent (XDR-TB).
Jan 24, 2007
Urban Migration: A Solution Bred from No Alternative
More than 200 million Chinese from rural areas are migrating to cities in search of work, often leaving their children behind. While this move toward the city seems inexorable, some creative people are thinking up ways to present the rural poor with alternatives.