Julia Kollewe, Guardian.co.uk AstraZeneca has joined a consortium to fight tuberculosis around the world with French rival Sanofi-aventis, the University of Cambridge and other research organisations. The More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB) consortium intends to develop new drugs for successful and shorter treatment for TB. The École...
Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The TED conferences feature talks by some of the world’s most innovative thinkers and creative, influential change makers. I am returning to TED both as a speaker myself and as the curator of a session with four speakers devoted...
UN News Centre 28 February 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today lauded the role philanthropists play in facilitating access to education and encouraged them to commit more resources to improve quality and ensure that even the most marginalized children have opportunities to acquire education. “The world needs...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk If you want to see iron resolve in action, take a trip to the Kachange camp for displaced people in North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This is a war zone. Families in the sprawling camp have lost everything – everything...
Business Wire SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH) announced a major milestone in the fight against cholera. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted iOWH permission to begin phase 1 trials for iOWH032, a drug to treat secretory diarrhea. This is the...
Press Release, The Global Fund Geneva, 1 March 2011 – The United Kingdom’s Development Minister said on Tuesday that the Global Fund was one of 9 international organizations with an “excellent track record” for delivering results and would receive increased funding in the future. Secretary of State...
The Independent It has been brave of the Coalition Government to stick to its election commitment to ring-fence Britain's £8.4bn overseas aid budget at a time when public spending is being slashed so heavily. We should not balance our books at the expense of the most...
allAfrica.com GAVI recognised for critical role in reducing childhood deaths through vaccination and bringing together immunisation partners. The GAVI Alliance welcomed a UK Government review issued today that found the public-private partnership to be highly cost effective and critical in reducing deaths among children under five years...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk If only real life was as simple as word processing. Search and replace, problem solved. At a talk at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton on Thursday, a member of the audience explained how, while doing some recent work for a major development...
PovertyMatters Blog, Guardian.co.uk If you express concerns about the negative consequences that over-dependence on aid can have for development, as I did in Mali recently, a common response is that there is no alternative. How else can vital services and infrastructure be funded? This is entirely...
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