Full Coverage: Aid

29.07.2005 Le 27 juin, MSF a ouvert à Aguié son cinquième centre de nutrition thérapeutique au Niger, d'une capacité de 150 lits d'hospitalisation. Mais quinze jours après l'ouverture, le centre affiche déjà complet. Pour faire face à l'afflux d'enfants souffrant de malnutrition grave, il faut doubler le nombre de lits.

29.07.2005 At this week's World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Geneva, anti-poverty campaigners are calling on the WTO and E.U. to abandon its "corporate agenda" and focus talks on benefiting developing countries.

29.07.2005 With global campaigns to "Make Poverty History" and a series of opportunities for world leaders to make a difference, WomenÂ’s Edge President Ritu Sharma reports that ending world poverty is possible, and that to do so, we must start by investing in women, who constitute the vast majority of the world's poor.

26.07.2005 Last December's tsunami was merciless to farming communities, poisoning thousands of acres with salt and sand. But the tiny Indian village of Piryakootai--where villagers scrape off up to three feet of the salted top soil--is determined to reclaim their land and their lives.

25.07.2005 Chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mental disorders, and injuries and violence are major public health problems in developing countries. Together, they account for over 40 per cent of the disease burden in high mortality developing countries, and over 75 per cent in lower mortality developing countries. So why are they so often overlooked by policymakers?

22.07.2005 Pour éviter une surmortalité dans les semaines à venir, des mesures exceptionnelles doivent être prises en urgence. C’est pourquoi Médecins Sans Frontières appelle à des distributions de nourriture dans les villages les plus touchés par la malnutrition.

Aujourd’hui, trois mois après de multiples appels à une aide d’urgence lancés par Médecins Sans Frontières ou d’autres acteurs, la réponse à la crise nutritionnelle au Niger reste très insuffisante par rapport à la gravité de la situation.

22.07.2005 Some 65,000 HIV-positive Ugandans are now on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, achieving the government's 2005 target six months ahead of schedule. The government attributed the success to international support and promised that if more resources continued to come into the country, Uganda could triple the number of people accessing ARVs by the end of 2006.

22.07.2005 Faced with a funding shortfall for SudanÂ’s strife-torn Darfur region, the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization has appealed for $8 million to provide vulnerable families with agricultural supplies and seeds so they can produce their own food, a more effective strategy than providing food aid because it gives people an incentive to stay on the land and provides food for several months.

21.07.2005 Less than a month after G8 leaders promised more and better aid for Africa, the international community has failed to respond adequately to the food crisis in Niger, said World Vision.

21.07.2005 Warnings of an impending food crisis in Niger, sounded by the U.N. and other aid agencies late last year, met with little response from the international donor community. Contributions are starting to trickle in at the U.N., but by the time enough aid gets through it will have come too late for many, most of them babies and young children, says U.N. Humanitarian Affairs chief, Jan Egeland.

19.07.2005 Efforts to save lives and treat injuries and illnesses caused by Hurricane Dennis have been badly hampered by the Bush administration's decision to tighten the U.S. embargo, which denies Cuba access to critical medications and medical supplies, says the international aid group MADRE, which is preparing a shipment of medicines to the country.

18.07.2005 Conflict between militia groups and government forces in east Sri Lanka during the past week are putting reconstruction efforts at risk, say Christian Aid.

18.07.2005 After 29 years of fighting, Acehenese separatists and Indonesian forces signed a peace deal Sunday, in part "to give the people of Aceh a chance to rebuild after the devastating tsunami," according to one rebel leader. But will this peace hold?

15.07.2005 La vague de solidarité sans précédent, tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger, a certainement touché les dirigeants du G8 réunis à Gleneagles, mais ces derniers ont laissé passer l'occasion de faire une percée historique dans la lutte contre la pauvreté. « S'ils ont pris des mesures positives notamment en doublant l'aide à l'Afrique, ils ont par contre manqué le coche en ce qui concerne un ensemble de mesures relatives à l'aide, à la dette et au commerce » a déclaré Gerry Barr, coprésident de la campagne Abolissons la pauvreté.

15.07.2005 Face à l’intensification et la propagation de la violence à Port-au-Prince, la capitale d’Haïti, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) appelle aujourd’hui tous les acteurs armés de la ville à respecter la sécurité des populations civiles et de permettre un accès immédiat aux soins médicaux d’urgence aux personnes blessées lors de combats.

14.07.2005 Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations slammed the door in Africa's face in Gleneagles last week, just as the continent thought it was on the verge of a breakthrough in new aid and fair trade, ActionAid has said.

13.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 13 (OneWorld) - International agencies must take immediate steps to protect people fleeing Nepal's nine-year guerilla war or they will see the country engulfed in a humanitarian crisis, refugee advocates have warned.

13.07.2005 Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the Government would find "ways and means" to meet the demand for Rs. 6,500 crores to create over 6 lakh village knowledge centres across the country.

13.07.2005 Niger needs long-term assistance to avoid chronic food insecurity in addition to continuing help for “silent emergencies” in health, nutrition, education and access to water, warns the UN Children's Fund.

13.07.2005 On White Band Day, July 1, some of the world's most famous monuments--St. Paul's Cathedral in London, a cotton tree planted by freed slaves in Sierra Leone, the Coliseum in Italy--were adorned with massive white cloths as part of global actions calling on G8 leaders to act on poverty. Take a look at the Millennium Campaign's photo essay highlighting many of the day's events.