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Development and cooperation

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Michael Moyo

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa

In the 90s, South Africa became an epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. HIV is mostly a sexually transmitted disease. Intravenous drug users are at risk too, however, and so are people who need blood transfusions. HIV/AIDS initially spread fast among the...

Economy
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

A new beverage business

In Uganda, rural women engage in production of banana wine

Public health
Karim Okanla

A daunting challenge

In fighting cancer, awareness raising is an important first step

Cancer
Karim Okanla

Unaffordable treatment

Because of poverty, fear, ignorance and taboos, cancer is normally diagnosed late in Benin

Blog
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Steven Pinker lists reasons for global optimism

Global trends are healthier than most people think

Oxfam scandal
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

#MeToo in the aid sector

The Oxfam scandal damages the image of the whole development work

Agriculture
Raphael Mweninguwe

Flushing out illegal farmers

The tobacco industry in Malawi uses first-line technology to detect fraud

Humanitarian aid
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Wishes and visions

Providing adequate schooling and strengthening the global health systems are main tasks of international cooperation

Nutrition
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Big Food causes suffering

Author accuses the food industry of making the poor sick

Child soldiers
Dirk Bathe

Jobs instead of arms

The international community must end profiteering with child soldiers

Non-governmental organisations
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Rising to a global health menace

NGO activism must drive whole-of-society response to non-communicable diseases

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos