News tagged with poor countries
India's global pharmacy role threatened by EU pact
(AP) -- Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver lifesaving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides push through protracted ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 10, 2012 |
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200 million use illegal drugs: Lancet estimate
About 200 million people around the world use illicit drugs, according to a study published on Friday in The Lancet.
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Nepal's child malnutrition 'silent emergency'
Padma Biswokarma covers her young son with a blanket as she breastfeeds, a broad smile spreading across her face.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Climate conference approves landmark deal
(AP) -- A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change.
Dec 11, 2011 |
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Tropical disease experts report missed opportunity to transform global HIV/AIDS fight
Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts are missing a major opportunity to significantly improve health conditions in poor countries by simply adding low-cost care for the many other chronic and disabling diseases ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 09, 2011 |
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National interests hinder climate accord attempt
(AP) -- Delegates attending a 194-nation climate conference agree the world needs to send less carbon into the atmosphere, but national interests and economic worries have so far hindered attempts to reach an agreement that ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Climate talks see some progress as clock ticks
World climate talks late Thursday inched towards common ground that would bring China, the United States and Europe into a deal on tackling global warming.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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'Most poor people don't live in the poorest countries'
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Oxford University study of 1.65 billion of the world's poor shows that over twice as many live in 'middle-income' countries as in 'low-income' countries.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Philippine solar light bottles offer hope
Filipino entrepreneur Illac Diaz is aiming to help a million poor people in a year, and with the help of some plastic bottles and a clever social media campaign may do even better.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Get ready for climate change, says UN panel
The toll from ever-more intense floods, drought, and heatwaves will crescendo this century unless humanity anticipates the onslaught, according to a UN report set to be unveiled on Friday.
Nov 16, 2011 |
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7 billion people are not the issue - human development is what counts
As the global media speculate on the number of people likely to inhabit the planet on Oct. 31 an international team of population and development experts argue that it is not simply the number of people that matters but more ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Climate talks inch ahead on aid despite discord
Climate negotiators said they made progress on laying out ways to help poor countries but deep differences remained on core issues ahead of a make-or-break talks in South Africa.
Oct 08, 2011 |
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Climate talks eye revenue from shipping
With nations facing gaping shortfalls meeting pledges on climate change, several governments and activist groups are pushing to put a price on shipping emissions to fund aid to poor countries.
Oct 06, 2011 |
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How do you bring health care to the poor?
If you want to provide poor people in developing countries with decent health care, you need to overcome several barriers at the same time. That is the conclusion of researcher Bart Jacobs, based on years of research in Cambodia ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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New study on poor financing in developing countries explains sluggish growth
Though economists have long suspected that developing countries struggle to emerge from poverty because they lack robust financial sectors, few economists have tried to determine just how this phenomenon occurs – until ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 27, 2011 |
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