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  • AIDS and Development Discussed at White House Summit

    By Joe DeCapua
    Washington
    21 October 2008
    [...]
    HIV/AIDS has hindered development in many countries.
    “HIV/AIDS is actually somewhat unique in development when you talk about disease anyway. Most diseases kill young and old, whether it’s cancer or heart disease. HIV/AIDS uniquely infects and kills 15- to 50-year-old people. That means it’s knocking out a generation of the most productive [...]

  • Bush: aid to poor nations especially needed now

    21/10/08 WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid global economic turmoil, President Bush said Tuesday that it’s more important than ever for the United States and other prosperous nations to help the less fortunate.
    “During times of economic crisis, some may be tempted to turn inward — focusing on our problems here at home while ignoring our interests around [...]

  • HIV-positive girls still living in hospital

    21/10/08 By ADOW JUBAT
    Two HIV-positive girls are languishing at the Ijara District Hospital after they were disowned by their community.
    The girls, aged six and nine, have survived on the hospital’s meagre provisions for the last year, even after The Standard highlighted their plight in July.
    According to MOH Mohamed Sheikh Abdi, the girls were taken to [...]

  • People living with Aids criticise HIV Bill

    Evelyn Lirri
    Kampala
    People living with HIV/Aids have criticised a proposed Bill that criminalises the spread of the disease, saying it will only perpetuate stigma and discrimination.
    According to Ms Flavia Kyomukama from the Global Coalition of Women Against Aids, criminalising the spread of HIV/Aids will lead to less disclosure of status as people will shun voluntary counselling [...]

  • JK launches medical research project

    JAPHET SANGA in Mbeya
    Daily News; Sunday,October 19, 2008 @20:11
    President Jakaya Kikwete has inaugurated the Mbeya Medical Research Programme (MMRP) as a National Institute for Medical Research collaborating centre. He hailed the ultra-modern research programme here on Saturday, saying it would greatly improve health care facilities at the Mbeya Referral Hospital which serves the southern regions.
    The [...]

  • Pakistan close to achieving Millennium Development Goals on Tuberculosis

    ISLAMABAD, Oct. 19 (APP): The Secretary Minisry of Health Suleman Ghani said that his country was close to achieving Millennium Development goals on Tuberculosis. According to a message received here Sunday, he participated the 39th International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (IUATLD) Conference duirng which highlighted Pakistan’s achievement in TB control.
    Pakistan’s delegation at the [...]

  • Migrant groups to declare Oct 29 as ‘Zero Remittance Day’

    10/19/2008 | 09:52 AM
    MANILA, Philippines - An alliance of migrants composed of 112 organizations worldwide will declare October 29 as a “Zero Remittance Day” to signify its opposition to “forced migration and systematic exploitation of cheap labor.”
    In a statement released on Sunday, the International Migrants Alliance (IMA) said its symbolic protest action would coincide [...]

  • Beijing Plans Health Care For Everyone

    20/10/08 BEIJING — China has unveiled an ambitious plan to achieve universal health care. The plan, released for public debate last week, lays out in broad strokes plans to introduce greater health-care funding and control prices. The current system leaves out much of the population and forces the rest to pay heavy out-of-pocket expenses.
    Overhauling China’s [...]

  • Free markets killing global health systems

    Written by Margaret Chan
    October 20, 2008: Thirty years ago in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty, the Declaration of Alma-Ata launched primary health care as the route to health for all.
    This was a deliberate effort to reform inequalities in health status and care.
    Why was this so important? What does health equity [...]

  • $100M for poor nations fighting climate change: PM

    Updated Sun. Oct. 19 2008 9:23 PM ET
    CTV.ca News Staff
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper closed the Sommet de la Francophonie in Quebec City on Sunday by announcing $100 million in aid for developing countries to fight climate change.
    Harper said his government has always been committed to finding a solution to global warming and understands that some [...]

  • After setbacks, hunt for AIDS vaccine pushes on

    19/10/2008 01:51 CAPE TOWN, Oct 19 (AFP)
    One year after a puzzling setback in the hunt for an AIDS vaccine, researchers say their defeats have forced them to look for entirely new ways of creating a defence against the disease.
    After nearly 30 years, 25 million deaths and billions of dollars spent with no vaccine to [...]

  • [Go EU!!!!!!!!] EU urges donors to keep aid promises despite global financial crisis

    EU urges donors to keep aid promises despite global financial crisis
    www.chinaview.cn 2008-10-18 05:31:50
    BRUSSELS, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — The European Union (EU) urged international donors on Friday to keep their aid promises to developing countries despite the global financial crisis.
    “Saving banks at home should not serve as an excuse to go [...]

  • Five million people face starvation in troubled Zimbabwe

    Power-sharing talks deadlocked while UN warns of humanitarian emergency caused by failed harvest

    By Raymond Whitaker
    Sunday, 19 October 2008
    Aid experts are warning that millions of Zimbabwe’s people face starvation as the country’s political leaders remain deadlocked over a power-sharing deal and the economy heads for total collapse.
    While officials of the Southern African Development Community prepare for [...]

  • $600 million needed for Aids

    19 October 2008
    Evelyn Lirri, Kampala
    Uganda will require close to $600 million over the next five years to reduce new HIV/Aids infections and achieve universal access to treatment, a new plan indicates.
    The National HIV/Aids Strategic Plan 2007/8 to 2011/12 was launched at the sixth HIV/Aids Partnership Forum organised by the Uganda Aids Commission on Friday in [...]

  • Super HIV/AIDS laboratory in Africa

    17 October 2008
    A state-of-the-art medical laboratory aimed at finding universal cure to the deadly HIV/AIDS disease has opened in South Africa. The centre would preserve infected cells for decades to give researchers time to study strains of the virus as it mutates. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds it.
    The Aids Vaccine Discovery laboratory, according to [...]


$100M for poor nations fighting climate change: PM

Updated Sun. Oct. 19 2008 9:23 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Prime Minister Stephen Harper closed the Sommet de la Francophonie in Quebec City on Sunday by announcing $100 million in aid for developing countries to fight climate change.

Harper said his government has always been committed to finding a solution to global warming and understands that some poorer countries don’t have enough resources to do the same.

“That’s why I’m announcing that the government of Canada will add $100 million of aid to developing countries particularly vulnerable to climate change,” Harper said.

“This help will go to the countries that are least advanced and small insular states, especially in Africa, the Caribbean and the South Pacific.”

Harper also said he has been working with world leaders to “minimize the effects” of the global economic crisis.

“Now we have to start our follow-up work … concerning our commitments,” he said.

At a press conference afterwards, Quebec Premier Jean Charest said solutions to the financial crisis “must take into account the countries of the south.”

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon also said the summit was a key instrument in bringing up issues important to those nations.

Harper met privately Saturday with world leaders at the summit to discuss the financial crisis that has sent stock markets tumbling worldwide.
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