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GLOBAL: The price tag for adapting to climate change
30 March 2009
(IRIN
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Countries staring into a gloomy future of low food production, less water, higher storm surges, longer dry periods and other expensive consequences of climate change have been told they can adapt at a cost ranging from several hundred billion dollars to over a trillion dollars.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/83701/GLOBAL-The-price-tag-for-adapting-to-climate-change
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GLOBAL: Will scaling up pre-positioned food aid save time and money?
27 March 2009
(IRIN
),
In a time of growing food shortages and high prices, humanitarian agencies have begun exploring ways to respond to crises sooner. Pre-positioning food aid closer to where it is needed to save money and time is one idea gaining ground.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/83674/GLOBAL-Will-scaling-up-pre-positioned-food-aid-save-time-and-money
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GLOBAL: New online price tool shows food still expensive
26 March 2009
(IRIN
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If you are a humanitarian food aid agency with limited resources, operating in Afghanistan and trying to access wheat supplies at the lowest prices, a new UN online tool can help you shop around.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/83647/GLOBAL-New-online-price-tool-shows-food-still-expensive
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GLOBAL: Prevention the best medicine for TB
26 March 2009
(IRIN
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Findings from an ongoing South African study into preventative tuberculosis (TB) therapy suggest that prevention really may be the best medicine.
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/83665/78/GLOBAL-Prevention-the-best-medicine-for-TB
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GLOBAL: Jerald Sadoff, "You lose one year and you lose 1.7 million people"
26 March 2009
(IRIN
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Over the past decade, scientists have intensified their efforts to create a tuberculosis vaccine that can prevent adult infections- which the currently administered Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine has largely been unable to do- and protects young HIV patients, for whom the current vaccine can be lethal. Dr. Jerald Sadoff is president of the US-based NGO Aeras TB Vaccine Foundation, which funds and researches tuberculosis vaccines.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/83652/GLOBAL-Jerald-Sadoff-You-lose-one-year-and-you-lose-1-7-million-people
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GLOBAL: When every day is TB day
25 March 2009
(IRIN
),
While welcoming the annual upsurge in international conferences, media stories and web traffic to tuberculosis portals for World TB Day on 24 March, scientists worldwide say every day is TB (tuberculosis) day for them as they race to find a vaccine that can stay head of growing drug resistance and boost a near century-old only partially-effective vaccine, according to World Health Organization (WHO).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/83637/GLOBAL-When-every-day-is-TB-day
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GLOBAL: TB and HIV co-infection crisis a bigger threat
24 March 2009
(IRIN
),
One in four tuberculosis (TB) deaths in the world is HIV-related, twice as many as previously thought, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/83625/78/GLOBAL-TB-and-HIV-co-infection-crisis-a-bigger-threat
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GLOBAL: Fatal ‘extensively-resistant’ tuberculosis spreads
24 March 2009
(IRIN
),
Over the past three years, the number of countries reporting cases of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB)- essentially untreatable in the developing world- has grown by almost 25 percent to reach 55 countries, as of 2009 World TB Day.
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/83624/78/GLOBAL-Fatal-extensively-resistant-tuberculosis-spreads
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In Brief: More than $300 million wasted in water projects
23 March 2009
(IRIN
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Donors, governments and NGOs have wasted hundreds of millions of dollars in rural African water projects by not maintaining wells and boreholes they built, according to an International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) report.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/83593/In-Brief-More-than-300-million-wasted-in-water-projects
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GLOBAL: Mobile phone games with a message
23 March 2009
(IRIN
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Fancy a mobile phone game for your child with underlying messages like the need to wash your hands with soap before eating, how best to preserve water, or what to do in a flood or tsunami?
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/83582/GLOBAL-Mobile-phone-games-with-a-message
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