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...Contamination and polluted water kill more people than all forms of violence combined, and one million people still die each year from malaria, the majority of them children and pregnant women in Africa. Their suffering remains invisible to us an ocean away. Concentrated in the world’s poorest villages and away from the eyes of the developed world, they die silent deaths...
Researchers say they've found a way to keep more newborns alive in the poorest corners of eastern India: Get their mothers talking. A report published in The Lancet medical journal last month suggests that gathering women together for monthly chats on sound pregnancy practices and reproductive health may drastically cut neonatal mortality rates in rural communities. "Too many people in the health community think that health is about delivering little magic bullets to passive poor people," says Anthony Costello of University College London's Institute of Child Health, which spearheaded the project. "What that doesn...
...Abhisit surely recognizes how wounding class divisions can be if left to fester. Currently, the richest 20% in Thailand controls two-thirds of the nation's wealth. "In many [Bangkok] districts, the richest and poorest have been living side by side for years and people feel these income gaps," says the PM's spokesman Panitan. "We may not see confrontations like in Latin America but, if not managed, this could be a big problem in Thailand, and demonstrations will be the order of the day for years to come...
...reconstruction plan dominates Haiti's airwaves. At the U.N. donor conference on Wednesday, the international community pledged more than $5 billion dollars to support Haiti for the next 18 months and almost $10 billion for the next five years. These are enormous figures aimed at transforming the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, which has become even more dire after the catacylsmic Jan. 12 earthquake. But as crucial as the donor news was, many Haitians made homeless by the temblor, like Patrick Nordeuse, 43, have simply tuned out. "I used to listen to the radio after the earthquake...
...President, Senators, deputies and myriad regional posts were all supposed to take place this year. But as the government crawls out from one of the worst natural disasters of modern times, the challenge of holding those contests looks daunting at best, especially since Haiti is the western hemisphere's poorest country. But Haitian President René Préval and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week urged that legislative elections, which were supposed to have taken place in February and March, and the presidential balloting, which has yet to be scheduled, be held. Otherwise, they warn, the nation...