UN Chronicle back issues from July 2006:
Public health challenges also affect development and security.(From the Secretary-General)
Jul 01, 2006 ... WE IN THE UNITED NATIONS FAMILY do know that human health is crucial to our mission for development and security around the world. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since your institution was created, life expectancy in this country has literally doubled, largely thanks to the ...
25 Years of AIDS.
Jul 01, 2006 ... In June 1981, scientists in the United States reported the first clinical evidence of a disease that would later become known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. Twenty-five years later, the AIDS epidemic has spread to every corner of the world. Around 40 million people today ...
As long as I can remember ... there's always been AIDS: in memory of lives lost in 25 years of AIDS.
Jul 01, 2006; ... MY STORY IS ONE AMONG MILLIONS of young people who do not remember a time without a computer, MTV or AIDS. When I was very little, my mother sat me down and told me about a pandemic that would eventually become one of the greatest challenges and threats my generation would face. What I ...
HIV/AIDS response at a crossroads; The 2006 UN High-level Meeting: 'Uniting the World against AIDS'.
Jul 01, 2006; ... ON THE OCCASION OF THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the first identification of HIV/AIDS cases, the UN General Assembly held a high-level meeting on "Uniting the World against AIDS" and called upon hundreds of participants--from Heads of State or Government to civil society, and from AIDS ...
Women and AIDS in South Africa: a conflicted history leads to a dispiriting present.
Jul 01, 2006; ... TEN YEARS AGO, when Prudence Mabele discovered she had HIV, she was told to abandon her studies. She was working towards her degree in analytical chemistry at a time when HIV was neither understood nor tolerated in South Africa. "There were a lot of problems then", she said. "They didn't ...
India's other virus: human trafficking and the spread of HIV.
Jul 01, 2006; ... INDIA'S LOOMING HIV DISASTER terrifies the rest of the world, and its potential to outpace Africa as the world's largest reservoir of the virus has brought out the big money to contain it. World Bank funds are flowing into HIV-prevention programmes. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ...
A passionate appeal for Global equality in AIDS treatment.(Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS)(Book review)
Jul 01, 2006; ... MOVING MOUNTAINS: THE RACE TO TREAT GLOBAL AIDS By Anne-Christine D'Adesky (ISBN 1-84467-543-2) Published by Verso, 2004 Do industrialized nations want to supply HIV/AIDS medicine at low costs to developing countries? Anne-Christine D'Adesky, a journalist ...
Global Fund's grants show substantial impact.
Jul 01, 2006 ... WITH NEARLY 400 GRANTS APPROVED, the programmes financed by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are proving that treatment and prevention efforts are working where money is invested. The Global Fund works to increase resources to fight these diseases, in close ...
AIDS vaccines: the world's best hope to end the AIDS epidemic.
Jul 01, 2006; ... TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER ITS ONSET, AIDS continues to grow and outpace the global response. According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, worldwide an estimated 38.6 million people are currently living with HIV. The epidemic is ...
The strength of: rural women in China; The role of women in China in such activities as caring for the family, raising poultry and livestock, weaving, etc., used to be behind the scenes. Men tended the fields, made decisions relating to daily life and rarely consulted their female partners on business matters.
Jul 01, 2006; ... In rural communities, land was owned by a few landlords, while villagers lived on very little income, well below the poverty level. However, this began to change in the 1950s with land reform, wherein families were given land to grow crops. Women's role began to change as well, but as ...
The State of the World's Cities Report 2006/7: Urban and slum trends in the 21st century.
Jul 01, 2006; ... Sometimes it takes just one human being to tip the scales and change the course of history. In 2007, that human being will either move to or be born in a city, and demographers watching urban trends will mark it as the moment when the world entered a new urban millennium in which the ...
The World Urban Forum: ideas on the future of the World's Cities.
Jul 01, 2006; ... THE LIVES OF AT LEAST 100 MILLION slum dwellers will radically improve by 2020 if the promise of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7--to ensure environmental sustainability--is kept. The mere thought of it is very encouraging, but the work that remains is daunting. In a massive ...
How to improve the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.
Jul 01, 2006; ... PROGRESSIVE THINKING ON SLUMS or informal settlements must engage in two processes that underpin their formation and perpetuation: distorted urban land markets and the way the competition politics of globalization shape local land markets and urban policy. Can global governance offer a ...
From the Piazza to the Internet: the shift from local public space to global public sphere.
Jul 01, 2006; ... WHO NEEDS PUBLIC SPACE? Isn't private safer? And is it one space, or many overlapping dimensions, such as the physical three dimensions of urban space: time, the sphere of media and the realm of politics? We may need to look at a more complex and contemporary definition of public space ...
Singing their way out of poverty: Africa's urban youth find a voice.
Jul 01, 2006; ... SIX YEARS AGO, Joseph Oyoo--popularly known as Gidigidi--was just a young slum dweller with no hope for the future or of ever getting a job. His main worry was where his next meal would come from as his retired father and housewife mother struggled to raise him and his nine siblings. ...
The rise and fall of the state hospital system.
Jul 01, 2006; ... PERCHED ATOP A HILL overlooking a small college town in Ohio (United States), Athens State Hospital--now known as The Ridges--has an imposing presence that the banners for the art gallery in the central building do little to diminish. While a fraction of the building is currently in use by ...
'Trying to look at architecture differently'.(David Adjaye)(Interview)
Jul 01, 2006 ... DAVID ADJAYE is recognized as one of the leading British architects of his generation. His innovative and engaging designs emphasize the experience of architecture within an urban environment Born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Ghanaian parents, he was educated in Africa before moving to ...
The idea of global citizenship: scholars debate notions of identity and tolerance at Secretary-General's Lecture.
Jul 01, 2006; ... IN THIS RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD, concepts of human identity can be a seismically divisive force. Across some of the most hostile divides-religious wars, ethnic clashes-those on either sides too often identify themselves exclusively with a particular group. They believe that they hold dear ...
10 Stories the World Should Hear More About.
Jul 01, 2006 ... Concerned that some issues continue not to receive sustained media attention or slip off the radar screen, the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) has unveiled a new list of Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About. "The media and the UN share an interest in getting ...
Indigenous groups: make inroads into the global community.
Jul 01, 2006; ... INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, which make up only 5 per cent of the global population but represent a staggering 15 per cent of the world's poor, are still reeling from the results of centuries of decimation and political brutality: violence, unemployment and seemingly inescapable cycles of ...
Commitments need to be concrete for Second indigenous Decade.
Jul 01, 2006 ... REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, senior United Nations officials and members of nongovernmental organizations gathered at UN Headquarters in New York on 15 May 2006 for the opening ceremony of the fifth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which also ...
Consensus and commitment to save and sustainably manage the world's forests.
Jul 01, 2006; ... LONG CONSIDERED A TREMENDOUSLY VALUABLE economic and environmental resource, the world's forests have been shrinking by some 200 square kilometres every day--an area equivalent to the size of Germany every five years. Much of this loss is due to forests being converted to land for ...
'Fuel for life': household energy and health.
Jul 01, 2006; ... INDOOR AIR POLLUTION FROM COOKING AND HEATING with solid fuels, including wood, dung and coal on open fires or traditional stoves, is responsible for at least 1.5 million deaths every year worldwide. Such pollution causes acute lower respiratory infections in children under five years of ...
Indian banks find interest in: UNEP Solar Loan approach.
Jul 01, 2006; ... IN LESS THAN THREE YEARS, almost 100,000 people in rural areas of southern India obtained clean and reliable electric power because of one main reason: their family could get a loan from a conventional bank that was previously unavailable. More than 16,300 families were part of the Indian ...
Oil matters: economic and environmental prospects hinge on global cooperation.
Jul 01, 2006; ... FOR DECADES, THE BATTLE LINES OVER OIL, the world markets and the environment have been clearly drawn. But recently there has been an unprecedented shift in the conversation surrounding-energy issues. Scientists and politicians have finally managed to rouse an undecided public to a climate ...
Commission on Sustainable Development: 'we need a revolution in energy efficiency'.
Jul 01, 2006 ... A COMPREHENSIVE AND BROAD-BASED DISCUSSION BY the Commission on Sustainable Development, to review progress in the areas of energy for sustainable development, industrial development, air and atmospheric pollution and climate change, concluded on 12 May 2006 at UN Headquarters in New York ...