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

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...

Letters to the editor

Issues that have contributed to African poverty

Readers respond to our D+C/E+Z print edition 2017/11-12

International law

Don’t let them off the hook

Quitting the ICC does not protect a country’s violent leadership from prosecution

Industrial policy

Pragmatism instead of ideology

State industrial policy should appropriately govern market processes

Humanitarian aid

Triple mission

medico international insists on people’s right to having their basic needs fulfilled

Vocational training

Breaking down barriers

On Rwanda’s labour market, young people with disabilities deserve better inclusion

Humanitarian aid

Prevention is better

In Bangladesh, new preventive approaches are being taken in humanitarian aid

Our view

Dangerous generosity

Philanthropy must be geared to capable and democratically legitimate statehood

Poverty alleviation

Dana, zakat and charity

India is moving up the ranks of countries measured in the CAF World Giving Index

Promoting change

From individual charity to impact-investing

Philanthropy must help drive sustainable development in India