Amnesty International - stop violence against women

AFRICA: New mobile technology tracks pandemics through Fluphone

Somalia refugee family with cellphone

WNN MDG Stories (WNN-Cambridge) UK/AFRICA/GLOBAL: A mobile phone app developed by University of Cambridge researchers that tracks how people behave during an epidemic could be used to limit disease spread. Influenza is sweeping the UK, schools are closing, workplaces are short-staffed, and the race for a vaccine has begun: all the elements of a scenario [...]

South African males more likely to die from HIV infection says new findings

South African theatre group educates the public about HIV/AIDS

Joe DeCapua – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/VOA) Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA: HIV-infected men in South Africa are nearly one-third more likely to die than women, even though both receive similar treatment. But researchers say they don’t know why. University of Cape Town’s Morna Cornell led a team of researchers who looked at more than 46,000 [...]

2011 relief innovations may have saved lives in Horn of Africa

Somali refugee children share a meal inside a tent in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia.

Katy Migiro – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/TLW/AN) Nairobi, KENYA, AFRICA: Thousands of people in the Horn of Africa died needlessly last year because of the slow response to early warning signs, Oxfam and Save the Children say in a report. Some 13 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya went hungry last year, with 250,000 [...]

Funding must target antiretroviral drugs first for HIV/AIDS prevention says UNICEF

Public sign "Know Your HIV Status" - Zambia 2005

Sarah Boseley – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GDN) AFRICA: More than 330,000 children are still being born with HIV around the world every year, even though there are proven ways to prevent them becoming infected that would also save the lives of their mothers, an international conference has heard. Since 1994 it has been known that [...]

To prevent lung disease Mozambique women try new stove fuel alternative

Women ride wagon with charcoal delivery in Mozabique

WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GDN): Sofala Province, MOZAMBIQUE: Along a dirt road in Mozambique‘s Sofala province, a long line of men on bicycles stretches into the distance, each carrying an impossibly big bag of charcoal strapped to his bike. The journey to town takes two days from where they or their families cut down trees and [...]

Search Archive

Search by Date
Search by Category
Search with Google

Mercy Corps: Be the Change
| Designed by Gabfire Themes | Publisher: S.A. Dieterich |