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  • HIV/AIDS: Drug Price Cuts Secured Amid Growing Funding Fears

    OneWorld.net – Thu May 19, 4:33 pm ET  

    JOHANNESBURG, May 19 (IRIN/PlusNews) - Three international organizations have negotiated reductions on key first- and second-line, and paediatric antiretrovirals (ARVs) that will help countries save at least US$600 million over the next three years. Full Story »

  • Child soldiers add questions for Pakistan

    OneWorld.net – Tue May 17, 10:46 am ET  

    May 17 (OneWorld.net) - A new focus on Pakistan in the UN Secretary-General's annual report on Children and Armed Conflict may complicate the task of rebuilding relations with the US in the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Full Story »

  • Mixed messages out of Africa

    OneWorld.net – Mon May 9, 9:30 am ET  

    May 9 (OneWorld.net) - Two contrasting narratives on Africa's fragile economic development will confront heads of state gathering in Turkey for a critical UN conference on the world's "Least Developed Countries" which starts today. Full Story »

  • Bin Laden Killing Largely Unmourned in Pakistan

    OneWorld.net – Wed May 4, 10:30 am ET  

    ABBOTTABAD, May 4 (IPS) - Three days since the death of Al-Qaeda chief and U.S. public enemy No. 1 Osama bin Laden, there are no public demonstrations to protest his killing, nor are there any other displays of anger or grief in this country of 170 million where he once enjoyed tremendous support. Full Story »

  • Global poverty at mercy of corn harvest

    OneWorld.net – Mon May 2, 6:05 am ET  

    May 2 (OneWorld.net) - "If we have any kind of weather problem in the northern hemisphere, we don't have enough corn." This was the alarming verdict of Alberto Weisser, chief executive of Bunge, during last Thursday's presentation of first quarter results for the US agribusiness and food multinational. Full Story »

  • Stillbirths Could Be Halved Worldwide

    OneWorld.net – Wed Apr 27, 8:51 am ET  

    DAKAR, Apr 27 (IRIN) - Preventing stillbirths can cost just US$2.32 per mother if governments, the private sector and international institutions adopt a package of 10 health interventions, rather than allowing stillbirths to be an almost invisible problem. Full Story »

  • Sri Lanka: UN Report Finds Both Sides Liable

    OneWorld.net – Tue Apr 26, 6:24 pm ET  

    COLOMBO, Apr 26 (IRIN) - The government of Sri Lanka has criticized the UN for releasing a report alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both sides during the country's decades-long civil war. Full Story »

  • Renewables enjoy spring surge of superlatives

    OneWorld.net – Sat Apr 23, 3:10 am ET  

    LONDON April 23 (OneWorld.net) - The arrival of nature's season of renewal in the northern hemisphere has been greeted with a burst of timely announcements of renewable energy schemes around the world, many of them claiming to be bigger and better than anything before. Full Story »

  • Will the U.S. Be Last in Line in Building a New Cuba?

    OneWorld.net – Fri Apr 22, 5:19 am ET  

    SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 21 (New America Media) - This past weekend the Communist Party in Cuba approved a set of reforms that will increase the ease by which Cubans can engage in private business and looks at ways to attract foreign investment to boost the nation's nascent tourist industry. Full Story »

  • Pakistan: Unsafe Water Kills 250,000 Children a Year - Government

    OneWorld.net – Wed Apr 20, 6:16 am ET  

    LAHORE, Apr 19 (IRIN) - After several weeks of severe sickness, with unrelenting diarrhoea and high fever, Shamshad Ali, aged five, from a village near the town of Sheikhupura in Punjab Province, finally feels strong enough to venture out of his house again. Full Story »

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