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FAO Says Feeding the Future Requires Bold Decisions The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said people cannot live healthy and productive lives unless they have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. The U.N. agency has released its reco
India recently celebrated a year of being polio-free. This is a remarkable achievement in a country that until recently was recognized as the worlds epicenter of polio. Indias momentous accomplishment is boosting prospects of polio becoming only the
The Communist Party of China is stepping up its anti-corruption drive, listing seven priorities for 2015. The CPC's top corruption eradication authority is calling for tighter scrutiny of senior officials and intensified efforts to track down corrupt
Now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts. To relax our efforts now would be a mistake which generations to come will not be able to forgive. 现在是我们在各条战线上加强斗争的时候了。现在若放松努力将铸成大错
The World Health Organization says it has reached a limit in its fight against diseases and disasters. Director-General Margaret Chan says the agency is overextended and faces serious funding shortfalls. Dr. Chan says the WHO is no longer operating a
Agriculture Report - What Rio Conference Means to Farmers 农业报道 - 里约+20峰会探讨农业可持续发展 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Next week, leaders and officials
Pastoralists Played Major Role in Ending Rinderpest In June 2011, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization officially declared that the deadly animal disease rinderpest had been eradicated. The disease devastated livestock and lingered in Africa lo
Drug-Resistant Malaria Threatens Effort to Control Disease The biggest fear is the resistance will spread across Southeast Asia and then spill over into Africa, where the vast majority of the 700,000 deaths a year [from malaria] occur. Historically,
Dr. Pierre Fran?ois Unger, State Councillor of the Canton of Geneva, addresses delegates at the opening of the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, 17 May 2010 The 193-member World Health Assembly has agreed to work for the global eradication of measle
Africa Leaders Optimistic about Future of Continent Delegates to the summit came from various African countries and from World Bank, African Development Bank and the United Nations Development Program. Addressing the participants, Zimbabwean Presiden
Nations predicts that number will rise to 70 percent by 2050. Urban health challengesHealth researchers, practitioners, policymakers and academics from 45 countries came to the New York Academy of Medicine to discuss a wide and growing array of urban
Steve Baragona Polio is on the ropes. A $3 billion global campaign has driven the crippling and sometimes-fatal disease to just six source countries. Experts say the campaign has the potential to win
Researchers Propose New Polio Strategy 研究者提出新的脊髓灰质炎的策略 Researchers are calling for a different strategy to eradicate polio in countries where the disease remains endemic, namely, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. They s
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 19 November 2007 Senior finance officials from the world's 20 major economies say they share responsibility for stabilizing rising commodity prices and are calling on countries with large foreign currency reserves to adopt
Complete eradication in Caribbean targeted by 2010 Kane Farabaugh | Atlanta, Georgia 09 December 2009 A pilot program established by the Carter Center in 2008 helped to curb the spread of malaria by donating insecticide treated nets for beds and micr
By Steve Herman New Delhi 01 January 2008 India remains one of the few countries where polio has not been eradicated. Most of the world's new cases are reported in the subcontinent. While the total number of cases dropped in India last year, VOA cor
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus gestures as he speaks to media representatives before the opening of Africa-Middle East Microcredit Summit in Nairobi, 6 Apr 2010 Nobel Laureate Muhammed Yunus is call
A child being vaccinated against polio A new effort is underway to vaccinate people in the four countries where polio outbreaks still occur. If this effort is successful, polio could be eradicated worldwide. Derek Henkle met the 88-year-old Australia
The annual World Health Assembly has opened with delegates from 193 member countries discussing how to protect people from diseases such as the swine flu virus that is spreading around the world. 世界卫生大会年会开幕,来自193个成员国的
Chinese President Xi Jinping has set himself an ambitious target. He wants to lift all 70 million people living in less than a dollar a day out of poverty within the next five years. That is roughly a million people coming out of poverty every month