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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTwo surveys of maternal mortality conducted in Egypt, in 1992-93 and in 2000, collected data from a representative sample of health bureaus covering all of Egypt, except for five frontier governorates which were covered...
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From:Science (Vol. 226) Peer-ReviewedAbout 19 years ago, when it was clear that the World Health Organization's plan to eradicate malaria with DDT and drugs was running into trouble, the Agency for International Development (AID) decided that what was...
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From:Science (Vol. 241, Issue 4873) Peer-ReviewedOTA Backs Grassroots Strategy for Africa ALTHOUGH NOT QUITE the forgotten man--or woman--in development, the African farmer has been conspicuously ignored when not being blamed for increasing environmental degradation on...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe viability of sustainable agriculture in Moldova is being undermined by the threat of soil erosion. Around 30% of agricultural lands in the republic have already been damaged by erosion, resulting in the loss of 25...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 96, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAntimicrobial resistance is increasingly the focus of global attention. The adoption of resolution 68.7 at the 68th World Health Assembly (1) was pivotal in the ongoing fight against antimicrobial resistance, as the...
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 96, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Drought is one of the leading causes of death in Africa because of its impact on access to sanitary water and food. This challenge has mobilized the international community to develop famine early warning...
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From:Science (Vol. 233) Peer-ReviewedFamine Early Warning Closer to Reality IT is the rainy season now in the semi-arid areas south of the Sahara, the make-or-break time for food crops in a region where famine is a perennial threat and periodic reality....
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From:World Affairs (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMore than half of Afghanistan's population is under twenty-five, which shouldn't be surprising since the average life span there is forty-nine. But the United States Agency for International Development looked at this...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 19, Issue 22)Byline: Ian Wilhelm Washington -- After loud protests by charities, the U.S. Agency for International Development said this week that it has not started a controversial plan to screen nonprofit organizations for...
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From:The Public Manager (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe US Agency for International Development (USAID) works in essentially all areas of government in some 80 countries around the world. Whether it's family planning in Mali, rule of law in Georgia, or urban pollution in...
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From:Nature (Vol. 448, Issue 7150) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Erika Check [illus. 1] Controversy over a ground-breaking study of an experimental HIV prevention tool has underscored the field's need to revamp its approach to clinical trials. On 23 May, researchers...
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From:International Trade Forum (Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAt USAID, support to improve competitiveness of economies accounts for almost 90% of the more than US$ 500 million that USAID commits to trade capacity-building efforts worldwide each year. This is part of our...
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From:Science (Vol. 241, Issue 4865) Peer-ReviewedCrisis in AID Malaria Network THE U.S. MALARIA RESEARCH PROGRAM has had several disappointments in the past year--in vaccine development, in funding, and in management--and it is trying to regain momentum. But...
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From:Science (Vol. 252, Issue 5014) Peer-ReviewedHong Kong--On 23 February, when the attention of the world was firmly fixed on the Persian Gulf, a bloodless coup d'etat in Thailand brought down the government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. The little-noticed...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRajiv Shah, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is working to make USAID one of the premier agencies applying technology to the problems of the developing world. In...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 54, Issue 33)Byline: JJ HERMES The U.S. Agency for International Development appears to be planning to expand a proposed system to screen grant recipients, apparently including colleges, for terrorist connections. Officials...
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From:Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) was created in 1964 to provide emergency nonfood humanitarian assistance in response to international crises and disasters, in order to save lives and alleviate...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 54, Issue 2)Byline: JJ HERMES A proposed system to ensure that those who receive grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development do not have ties to terrorism has the potential to affect thousands of recipients,...
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From:The Futurist (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedElections free of violence--this seemed out of reach to many Kenyans in 2008. The losing parties in that year's elections instigated gangs of unemployed youth to go on looting and assaulting sprees, killing 1,500...