"After almost a decade of progress in rolling out AIDS treatment we have seen substantial improvements, both for patients and public health. But recent funding cuts mean doctors and nurses are being forced to turn HIV patients away from clinics as if we were back in the 1990s before treatment was available" - Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Director of MSF's Access to Essential Medicines Campaign.
To: 06/11/2009
Widows are often looked down on and pitied in Kenya. But the widows in the village of Angata Barakoi in the Transmara area of Kenya were determined to help each other and make a life for themselves, without relying on handouts and charity from relatives. Eighty-six widows banded together to form a support group to deal with the effects of HIV, grief, and the difficulties of living in a ...
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that it has transferred USD 336 million to Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria to pay for the provision of more than 50 million long-lasting insecticidal nets in the next few months. Together, this will amount to a 2/3 increase of the number of bed nets in Africa through Global Fund supported programmes.
The head of the United Nations food agency today welcomed the declaration by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation underlining the critical role that investment in food security, agriculture and infrastructure plays in feeding people on the continent.
Designer rag dolls, the concept couldn't sound more frivolous. But dolls made by top fashion designers such as Armani and Prada are helping to fund a vaccination programme in war-torn Darfur.
I applaud the declaration by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation underlining the important role that investment in food security, agriculture and infrastructure plays in meeting the food needs of Africa’s people.
Government has distributed between 400 and 600 tons of food to more than 100 000 people in need of emergency food relief since May, says Minister of Public Works Geoff Doidge.
"Overall, we call for a doubling of U.S. aid to global health from nearly $8 billion a year to $16 billion by 2011. A six-year scale up of a sufficiently resourced initiative would total $95 billion. While this reflects higher levels than the President's original announcement, 40% of this increase is for the total of $14 billion that must be invested in health workforce - which we believe could ...
DANIEL Nzelu Foundation at the weekend made a donation of N2 million to four orphanage homes in Abuja, just as the foundation has called on the federal government and the private sector to initiate steps that would help support the less privileged people.
It is a compassionate act that continues to baffle both friend and foe. Few in his shoes could imagine, let alone attempt, surrendering their valued assets to the less fortunate in society.
United Nations is appealing for Sh210 million (US$2.8 million) to provide essential supplies to refugees and respond to possible disease outbreaks in camps threatened by floods in Kenya.
Africa will receive $10 billion in concessional loans from China over the next three years.
It happens once a year in Norway. The whole country is consumed by it. This time, the development aid fundraising had a renewed sense of purpose, determination and optimism.
THE Australian government has pledged about sh173b to fight hunger in Uganda and other African countries in the next four years.
