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Major donors step forward with significantly increased pledges for Sixth Replenishment
Lyon, France – Today the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) raised $14.02 billion, the largest amount of money ever raised for an international health organization.
Read MoreIn the urgent struggle to stop the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors are rolling out powerful vaccines and lifesaving antiviral drugs, but the year-old outbreak, mired in violence among warring militias, is now caught between expert groups feuding over the best strategy to stamp out the disease.
Read MoreIn May, the House of Representatives approved the FY2020 SFOPs Appropriations bill. We were thrilled then to see the leadership of the House support a modest increase to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
Read MoreThanks to the release of David Barstow’s fictional release, HIV and AIDS in 2030: A Choice Between Two Futures (2019), many in the community were stimulated to discuss the book’s probing question: where we will be in 2030 in regards to HIV and AIDS? Will we have contained the epidemic, or will it have become a pandemic beyond control?
Read MoreA genetically modified fungus weaponized with spider venom; using mobile phone data to track infectious disease spread; a drug that turns human beings into living “mosquito zappers.”
Read MoreChurches and pastors are often eager to respond to the problems of global poverty and injustice. Yet before they take steps to address these problems, pastors — like anyone else — want to know how they can make a difference.
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How a passionate mother in Sudan is learning to give her baby girl the best start in life.
For Sarah Mohammed, the journey to motherhood was not an easy one. The 34-year old from El Obeid, Sudan, spent six years desperately visiting doctors and taking test after test to unearth any potential cause delaying her pregnancy.
Read MoreBut their chance of survival still depends on where they are born. Two decades ago, nearly 10 million children did not live to see a 5th birthday. By 2017, that number — about 1 in every 16 children — was nearly cut in half, even as the world’s population increased by more than a billion people.
Read MoreJOHANNESBURG, Aug 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Water pollution threatens nearly all the globally agreed development goals to end environmental destruction, poverty and suffering by 2030, economists warned in a report on Tuesday, citing the largest-ever database on the world's water quality.
Read MoreBoth Africa and India continue to have the highest percentage of under-five children who are undernourished. Africa and India share a rich history that dates back to the 17th century. Over the past few decades, the population of Africa and India has grown exponentially and currently accounts for 43 percent of the global population.
Read MoreIn recent decades, there has been a widely acknowledged global trend of less and less extreme poverty. According to World Bank standards, 1.1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1990.
Read MoreThe World Health Organization considers food and nutrition security a top priority and basic human right. Without adequate food and nutrition, children are unable to reach their full development potential both physically and mentally.
Read MoreWorld hunger is on the rise. Today, nearly one in 10 people around the world suffer from hunger…
Read MoreOn Friday, Sept. 23, 2019 I had the opportunity to speak at the annual Chosen Conference at Seacoast Church. This conference draws some 2500 women from across the nation, and this year, they focused on “Victory.”
Read MoreIvey is no stranger to hunger. Having grown up in poverty in Spanish Town Jamaica, he migrated to New York at the age of seventeen to make a better life for himself. For years he lived as a ghost.
Read MoreThis joint report is issued annually by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization. It presents the latest estimates on food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition at the global and regional levels. The 2019 edition continues to signal that significant challenges remain in the fight against food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms…
Read MoreHunger is often understood as an abstract problem occurring elsewhere, but it lurks the world over, including the poverty-ravaged “food deserts” of developed countries, in which convenience stores might be residents’ only source of food.
Read MoreSometimes a sermon can be polarizing. Once I was preaching to a crowd of New Yorkers about how Christians should respond to the problem of poverty. I’ll never forget two emails I received the following week, both in reference to the same sermon.
Read MoreDespite designing the world’s earliest and largest schemes on hunger and malnutrition, having surplus grains and food wastage, millions of Indians go to sleep hungry every night…
Read MoreSeptember 5, 2019
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Berkley Center Third Floor Conference Room Map
Through today’s decisions and actions, we are making a choice between two futures for the HIV and AIDS epidemic: A remarkable, decades-long global effort has given us the capability to end AIDS as a public health threat.
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