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...Last week poor countries meeting at the World Trade Organization in Geneva expressed "disappointment and frustration" at Washington's ongoing blockage of an agreement assuring cheap access to drugs for the developing world. American pharmaceutical companies claim they are willing to provide hiv-fighting antiretrovirals at cost for the poorest countries, since they don't want to be seen as profiting from an aids crisis that is devastating the African continent. But they worry that provisions would erode their patent rights for "lifestyle drugs" such as Viagra. The Fund has already decided that it will not shy away from buying...
...Harvard’s smallest and poorest graduate schools—particularly compared to schools with wealthy alums like the Law School and the Business School—GSE has historically received little attention from the University administration...
...hospital was the Clinique Bon Saveur, which Farmer established in Cange in 1985. It is still going strong—and its services are still necessary for the ever-growing health problems of Haiti’s poorest...
...almost two decades, these Palestinians were distrusted by their cousins in the West Bank or in refugee camps throughout the Arab world. By accepting Israeli passports, they were seen as collaborating with the enemy. In fact, conditions were hard for them and their towns and villages remain the poorest in the country. Hassan's craft is far more complex than a simple Arab-Israeli split. Of the 14 movies he has made, Israelis produced or co-produced his two best-known: Istiqlal, the story of Palestinians inside Israel on the country's Independence Day holiday; and Yasmine, about a Palestinian...
Over the past forty years, life expectancy for the poorest has increased by about 50 percent, from an approximate average lifespan of 40 years to 60 years, as documented in reports by both the United Nations and World Bank. Despite stagnation in some areas, most poor nations nearly doubled their average incomes from 1975 to 1999. Consistent improvements have been the trend even among the poorest nations on every significant measure of the Human Development Index, including income, education, life expectancy and infant mortality...