Full Coverage: Aid

30.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 30 (OneWorld) - U.S.-funded abstinence-only programs put millions of young Ugandans at risk of AIDS by denying them information about proven methods to protect themselves, instead offering them unproven advice to abstain from sex until they are married, a leading rights watchdog said Wednesday.

29.03.2005 The year 2005 has been deemed the year to "make poverty history" as world leaders will have three opportunities to make decisions that could considerably impact the worldÂ’s poor. Find out what you can do to ensure they make decisions that represent the generosity and spirit their citizens showed in the wake of December's tsunami.

29.03.2005 "Heifer recognizes that women and men face poverty differently." Martha Hirpa, Heifer International's Director of Gender Equity, examines how improving the lives of impoverished people is tied to leveling economic differences between the genders, and targeting aid for this purpose.

29.03.2005 It is widely recognised that water privatisation in developing countries benefits the urban middle classes rather than poor people. Now a new report says that international aid for water and sanitation projects shows the same characteristic in finding its way to middle income countries rather than the poorest.

29.03.2005 UK spending on aid has crept up to 0.36% of national income, barely half of the UN target of 0.7%. The Department for International Development (DFID) says the target will be achieved, but not until 2013.

28.03.2005 The Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California raised over $5,000 to fight world hunger by holding a "Fast for Awareness." Find out how your school can get involved.

23.03.2005 Many Americans believe that foreign aid is money wasted, but a new book demonstrates that global health interventions--many of them funded (indirectly) by U.S. taxpayers--often are highly successful, and have saved millions of lives over the past 50 years.

22.03.2005 In the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami, seven of the world's leading humanitarian organizations are collaborating--through a grant from the Gates Foundation--to expand the pool of qualified aid workers, improve efficiency, and better measure results.

22.03.2005 Grassroots International's Eritrea program launched in 1983, during the country's remarkable liberation struggle against better funded and better equipped Ethiopia. But Eritrea failed to remain true to the values and ideals it embraced during that struggle, and the deteriorating economic, social and political situation in the country has left Grassroots no choice but to withdraw its support, the group has said.

18.03.2005 President Robert Mugabe has secretly approached UN officials for help formulating a major appeal for food assistance to be launched as soon as the results of the March 31 election are declared. The president has, in the past, rebuffed international offers of assistance despite warnings that nearly half the population urgently require food aid or they could starve.

18.03.2005 The Commission for Africa report outlines at length what the world must do for Africa and Africa for itself. The report also sets out what Britain could be doing for Africa, and is not.

17.03.2005 People living with HIV/AIDS, religious groups and medical students were among hundreds demonstrating outside embassies of the seven leading industrial countries in Washington Tuesday, calling for full debt cancellation for African nations struggling to meet their citizens' health care, education, and other needs. They also demanded increased support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and TB.

16.03.2005 Food and water shortages caused by four consecutive years of drought, aggravated by the indecision of the donor community, leaves the Eritrean people in a precarious condition. There are reports of malnutrition from all regions of the country.

16.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar. 16 (OneWorld) - Health and humanitarian activists and medical students, concerned about three epidemics that kill about six million people a year, are pressing some of the world's wealthiest countries to increase their support of international efforts to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis (TB).

15.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 14 (OneWorld) - The British-led Commission for Africa has urged rich countries to double their aid to the continent and challenged African nations to do even more to root out corruption and promote good governance.

15.03.2005 The Blair Commission report takes a hard-hitting look at what can and should be done to promote an African recovery and puts responsibility squarely on both African and Western leaders preparing for a series of high-level summit meetings and other international gatherings to tackle these issues later this year, according to Ghanaian economist K. Y. Amoako, who helped fashion the report.

12.03.2005 OTTAWA – Des agriculteurs, des scientifiques et des spécialistes des politiques de l’Afrique, de l’Asie, de l’Amérique latine et du Moyen-Orient profiteront d’une rencontre aujourd’hui avec des représentants du gouvernement du Canada à Ottawa pour demander au gouvernement de revoir son utilisation des récoltes génétiquement modifiées comme outil de développement durable.

10.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. Mar 10 (OneWorld) - Countries striving to recover from natural disasters and war need to revive local agriculture as a top priority, according to a group of experts who say they can help.

10.03.2005 Tony Blair's task force on Africa, created a year ago, has come back with findings on how to tackle the continent's crippling problems of health, poverty and conflict in a 400-page report expected to be released on Friday. AIDS, debt relief, and corruption controls are at the top of the list.

10.03.2005 A Ferrari raffled by a relief organization in California will be won on Thursday, and driven away in good conscience, by one who donates $1,000 or more towards the organization's efforts to help rebuild coastal South Asia fishing communities. Eligible donations are being accepted until Thursday evening.