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• Can health campaigns bring lasting change to rural communities?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Unicef wants to eliminate maternal and newborn tetanus. But how successful can development campaigns like these be and how can any short-term success be maintained? This Christmas, Unicef is, for the fourth consecutive year, teaming up with Pampers to raise money for vaccines against maternal and newborn tetanus ...
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• Road to recovery: voices of the tsunami five years after the disaster

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Ambaragan Vijaya, 32, housewife. Lived on the beach with her mother in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India, at the time of the tsunami "The tidal wave came so quickly. There was nothing left. The water took away my mother, daughter and brothers son. I dont remember much but nothing was left. It was wooden. The ...
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• Copenhagen is a disaster for Africa | William Gumede

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  African countries, worst hit by the effects of climate change, were bullied into a deal that does little to help them Climate change is frequently a matter of life and death for many Africans. From whatever angle you look at it, the climate change "deal" that was bulldozed through by rich nations at the Copenhagen ...
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• Video: Kids for kids | Making a difference in Darfur

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Kids for Kids is aiming to provide a blanket for every child, a donkey for every family and a midwife for every remote village in Darfur
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• Little donkey saving lives

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Kids for Kids is a charity that helps children in remote villages in Darfur. Through providing water, goats and donkeys, and training midwives, a lasting impact is being made
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• Washington to Reduce Funding for U.S. Contractors in Pakistan

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 496
  by Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica The U.S. government will reduce the amount of money it spends on American contractors and nongovernmental organizations working in Pakistan this year, even as Washington begins to spend the first tranche of a new $7.5 billion aid package in that country, according to a report ...
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• Sorghum harvest eases food crisis in Katine

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  After months of severe food shortages in Katine, a good harvest of sorghum has brought some relief to the sub-county. But, as Richard M Kavuma discovers, the area could face more hardship within months When I ask Demita Ajemo if I can take her photo, her main concern is not what the photo will be used for or if I ...
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• Officials question Amrefs future training plans in Katine

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Members of the district steering committee endorse Amrefs activity plans after calling for more money to be spent on infrastructure and less on training District officials in Katine asked the African Medical and Research Foundation ( Amref ) for more money to be spent on infrastructure (hardware) and less on training ...
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• Clinton’s Surprise Announcement Injects New Hope Into Copenhagen Talks

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton breathed new life into the floundering climate talks in Copenhagen this morning with a surprise announcement that the United States would work to help raise $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing countries address the threat of climate change. “Today I’d like to ...
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• Response: This African aid initiative starts with a village... but what happens next?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A dewy-eyed view of charity work in Katine may just end in debilitating dependency Patrick Barkhams overview of the Katine experience covers the familiar mixed pattern seen throughout the Guardians two-year African initiative ( One step forward... , 6 November). The glimpses of village life offer genuine insight into ...
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• Can African countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals without foreign aid?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A UN representative has said relying on foreign aid to achieve the Millennium Development Goals did a disservice to Africa, and has called on governments to find alternative funding sources and clean up their acts African countries need to find alternative sources to money to finance their national budgets, rather ...
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• Nepals silent food crisis | Ed Douglas

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The financial crisis has left the World Food Programme short of funds. For the people of Nepal, the consequences are dire Last April I watched an ancient Russian helicopter landing at a remote dirt airstrip in western Nepal. The chopper had been chartered by the World Food Programme to fly in food to Mugu , the ...
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• Anti-HIV gel hopes dashed by trial results

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Promising microbicide piloted in British-funded trial turns out to be ineffective Hopes of a breakthrough that would allow women to protect themselves from HIV have been dashed with todays revelation from a large, British-funded trial that a promising microbicide has turned out to be ineffective. Britains Medical ...
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• Disease eradication: Yesterdays ambition

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  If ever there was a single moment of lost innocence in global medicine, it came with the triumph of disease over the best efforts of rich nations to transfer their knowledge and expertise to the rest of the world. Yet – as veterans of the campaign to eradicate smallpox will remember at commemorative events next ...
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• Not so fair trade | Andrew Chambers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Fairtrade products, such as the newly anointed KitKat, can offer little extra benefit to farmers and may even hold them back Nestlé has just announced that KitKat – Britains biggest-selling chocolate bar – will carry the Fairtrade logo from next month. But how much do consumers really know about the ...
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• Food rations put Katine residents back on HIV/Aids medication

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  US-based NGO has started distributing food to people living with HIV/Aids in Katine sub-county Katine residents with HIV/Aids who were forced to stop taking their medication because of severe food shortages in the region are now receiving food rations. Domitila Apecho, 50, who is HIV-positive, is one of many in the ...
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• The tsunami – five years later

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 538
  Author: Peter McCawley It is now almost five years since December 2004, when the great tsunami swept across more than a dozen countries in Asia. More than 230, 000 people died across the region. The cost to human life was mainly borne by Indonesia, in Aceh, where perhaps 170, 000 people were swept away. Five years ...
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• Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Address

  
  U.S. Common Sense — Authority: 121
  I’ve read through President Obama’s address today when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, and thought it was well written. It seemed to cover many of the major points that makes the US great while identifying the complexity of the modern world. If you recall back to my article from when Obama was announced as ...
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• Pre-budget report 2009: the main points

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Key details from chancellor Alistair Darlings 2009 pre-budget report • Pre-budget report Economic policy Tax and spending Executive pay and bonuses Economics Credit crunch Recession Retail industry Banking Economic growth (GDP) Government Borrowing Manufacturing sector ...
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• Climate Refugees Could Number 1 Billion by 2050

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 109
  Climate refugees in central Zimbabwe. Photo via EcoWorldy While the disastrous consequences of climate change may seem a ways off for some in the developed world, the International Organization for Migration reported today that it has already driven an estimated 24 million people from their homes–a number, they ...
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