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“Permanent” Funding for AIDS Drugs for Children; Challenge Remains in Delivery

A group of five countries plans to tax airline tickets to raise $300 million for medicines to treat children with HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This initiative has a lot of potential for good, and long-term success will hinge on the logistics of delivering those medications and getting patients to take them.

Sep 19, 2006

A Breakthrough for Fighting Malaria—But Dangers Too

The WHO is expected to overturn the ban on the use of DDT, recommending its use as a part of a comprehensive approach toward preventing malaria infection in Africa.

Sep 15, 2006

Google.org: Not as Innovative as it Sounds

Google.org, the philanthropy launched by Google, is noteworthy, apparently, on account of its structure: it is a for-profit entity positioned to invest in other for- and non-profit ventures. Yet what Google.org is doing is not novel: Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, already did the same thing when he co-founded the Omidyar Network in 2004 with his wife.

Sep 13, 2006

Child Labor Rates on the Rise in Sub-Saharan Africa

In developing countries around the world child labor rates have declined rapidly over the past decades. Sub-Saharan Africa is the one exception.

Sep 08, 2006

Low-Tech Approaches to Water Yield Better Results

Governments have tried to alleviate irrigation challenges in water-poor areas by investing in high-cost, high-tech irrigation projects. But the large-scale route is not the solution according to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, as reported by The Economist.

Sep 04, 2006

Without UN Peacekeepers, What Hope for Darfur?

In an escalation of its long-held position that UN peacekeepers will not be granted permission to enter the country, the Arab-led government of Sudan has insisted this week that the African Union force currently in Darfur leave unless it agrees to accept a proposal blocking UN access to the region.

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