World Aid Gap Imperils Starving Millions in Niger

Aug 18th 2010 – 2:36 PM |AOL News

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(Aug. 18) -- Despite months of warnings, aid agencies have fallen badly short in raising funds to head off a hunger crisis imperiling more than 10 million people in some of Africa's poorest countries...

US Health Officials Worry About TB in Mexico

Jul 1st 2010 – 6:59 PM |AOL News

CHIAPAS, Mexico (July 7) -- Tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest diseases, has long been forgotten by most Americans, but it is re-emerging in a new, virulent form around the world. U.S. health...

The Dangers of Childbirth in Southern Mexico

Apr 20th 2010 – 2:33 PM |AOL News

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SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (April 20) -- Among dozens of other brightly dressed women, Eugenia Urbina has been waiting on the stairs of the main hospital in this central Chiapas town for...

Food Summit Urges More Aid to Farmers

Nov 16th 2009 – 2:20 PM |Sphere

ROME (Nov. 16) -- In line with the idea that it's better to teach people to farm than just to give them food, leaders at a global food summit Monday promised to put more resources into helping the...

Hunger Is Afghanistan's Biggest Killer

Nov 6th 2009 – 12:09 PM |Sphere

(Nov. 6) -- Death by violence has become tragically commonplace in Afghanistan -- for Afghans, foreign troops and aid organizations alike. But a far more efficient killer stalks the Afghan people:...

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