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Most countries in the Group of Eight industrialized nations have fallen behind the promise made at the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, to double aid to Africa by 2010, according to a report released on Tuesday by the advocacy group DATA, the |
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Louisiana should transfer control of six charity hospitals to private clinics and hospitals within two to five years, according to a recommendation issued Tuesday by the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports. Th |
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A senior official of the United Nations World Food Programme
called for more resources and improved humanitarian access and security
for
aid workers providing assistance to thousands of people displaced by the
recent upsurge in fighting i |
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The United Nations World Food Programme said a second round of
food distributions started today to 122,500 people either driven
from
Mogadishu or who had recently returned but warned that a new spate
of
piracy threatened to s |
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A three-day training course which provides a standardized curriculum to state and local public-health responders about how to identify and control human infections and illness associated with avian influenza A (H5N1) is being released on-line today. The |
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The United Nations World Food Programme today urged the
international community to redouble its efforts in support of the agency's
recently upscaled life-saving operation in the conflict-torn Central
African Republic. |
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Yesterday saw hundreds of thousands of people in around 100
countries step out with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), to
call for an end to child hunger. Participants from across the spectrum
joined - including children from amon |
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Rates of abuse and neglect of young children in military families in Texas has doubled since October 2002, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows, raising concerns about the impact of deployment on military personnel and their families |
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