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Water & Sanitation
Clean Water Needs To Be Priority For Haiti

  UNICEF and partners provide safe water for Haitian children and families

  UGANDA: "Flying toilets" still not grounded

 

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Report Documents Challenges to Maternal Health in Haiti Even Before the Earthquake
NEW YORK — Even before the catastrophic earthquake, pregnancy in Haiti was perilous. With 1 in 44 women dying in pregnancy or childbirth, Haiti is the most dangerous place to give birth in the Western Hemisphere. In the aftermath of the earthquake....

Uganda - CHOGM: Sh160m missing in Mulago
New Vision, Kampala, Monday, 1st February, 2010, Mary Karugaba & Milton Olupot - THE public accounts committee of Parliament was yesterday shocked to find that sh159m meant for the renovation of Mulago Hospital ahead of the CHOGM event was stolen in ....

SOUTH AFRICA: Inequality not so black and white
INEQUALITY NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE , 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - The growing gulf between the haves and have-nots in the black population has given South Africa the dubious distinction of becoming one of the world's most unequal societies, according to a....

GLOBAL: Humanitarian system gets a "B-minus"
DAKAR, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - The emergency aid industry has improved but must try harder, according to the broadest ever assessment of its performance. Reviewers from the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitari....

DRC: Security beefed up for North Kivu IDPs
NAIROBI, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Internally displaced people (IDPs) are still being abducted by armed groups for forced labour in several territories in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) even as authorities beef up securi....

WEST & CENTRAL AFRICA: Communities on the edge
DAKAR, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Natural disasters, epidemics and political unrest deal a particularly heavy blow to communities in West and Central Africa, where people live in a "fragile" state daily, UN Children's Fund said on 4 February. UNICE....

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phantom aid
In 2003, real aid was only $27bn, or
just 0.1% of the donor countries’
combined national income. Aid donors fall far short of meeting the official international aid target of 0.7% of national income. ActionAid’s new ‘real 0.7% rankings’, presented in this report, show that when it comes to
‘real’ aid they are falling even further behind....more than 60% of aid flows are ‘phantom’; that is they do not represent a real resource transfer to the recipient.....
For the United States and France, two of the world’s largest aid donors, almost 90% of their contributions are phantom aid

In Brief

On the Brink: Guinea Worm - A Long Crusade - Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease


Perspective: Why Africa cannot trade itself out of poverty


WHO makes progress in leprosy control, but challenges remain


WHO/AFRO plans to designate 2006 as “Year of Accelerated Prevention of HIV in Africa”.


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