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HIV/AIDS Sets Alarm Bells Ringing In Chhattisgarh

RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh has failed to secure maternal health, besides remaining a laggard in promoting use of contraceptives as an alternative to female sterilization, accordi...

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Inaugural Childx conference to be held at Stanford in April

Alan Guttmacher, a leading child health expert, will give a keynote address at the TED-style event April 2-3, which will bring together diverse experts in fetal and child h...

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Sustainable Development

UNDP regional head lauds Turkey for its commitment to sustainable development

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) regional head of Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has lauded Turkey for its commitment to sustainable...

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Sustainable Development

How to Make the Sustainable Development Goals Work

The two of us met for the first time more than a decade ago, in 2003, in the small rural village of Momemo, an hour?s drive and a world away from the urban bustle of Maputo...

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Health

When women thrive, the world thrives

This week India’s leadership will play a key role in defining the security of the world’s fundamental economic and social resource in the 21st century: Its demo...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable development by, for people

The year 2015 is going to be a busy time for government planners, climate negotiators, international donors and concerned citizens. In less than a year’s time the wor...

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Sustainable Development

Global Sustainable Development Goals need clearer, more measurable targets, according to new report

The proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a universal set of goals to guide international development to 2030 – will struggle to achieve their stat...

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Sustainable Development

India Hits Its U.N. Poverty-Cutting Target, but Misses Others

India is on track to cut poverty in half by the end of this year, compared to 2000 levels, but needs to do more to improve education and empower women, a United Nations rep...

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Health

What you need to know about HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is passed from one person to another through transferring blood or sexual secretions. “The most important thing is if the exposure ...

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Sustainable Development

Globalizing sustainable development

The question of how the world can end extreme poverty and improve human wellbeing will take on new urgency in 2015, as the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire and a ...

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