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is the VOA Special English Development Report. Governments may accused of keeping too many records on their people. no one seems to argue with recording births, deaths marriages. This is called civil registration. Birth and death help governments count populations and know how long people and what they die from. This information is important planning schools, hospitals and other services. A birth certificate also important for another reason. That piece of paper legal proof that an individual exists. Yet the World Organization believes that almost forty percent of all births unrecorded. It estimates that one hundred twenty-eight million babies born each year. So one way to look at is to say that every year close to fifty people are denied legal identities. And in the least countries the rate could be as high as seventy . The situation is no better for death records. Every fifty-seven million people die. But perhaps only one-third of deaths are counted. The WHO..., the United Nations health , has one hundred ninety-three member states. Yet it receives cause-of-death information from just thirty-one countries. Researchers say most countries have limited civil registration systems or none at . Now, a partnership supported by the WHO..., called the Metrics Network, will try to improve the situation. Last it launched a campaign to register all of the births and deaths. The effort was announced at a in Beijing, the Global Forum for Health Research. The general of the WHO..., Margaret Chan, said no single .. agency is responsible for making sure births and deaths recorded. Yet without these numbers, she says, who knows one hundred twenty billion dollars in official development aid year is being spent wisely? The campaign began with papers published in The Lancet medical journal describing the . Also, the Health Metrics Network is launching intensive efforts help six countries. The group has already started to with Cambodia, Sierra Leone and Syria. By the end this year, three more countries will be identified for to make sure everyone gets counted. And that's the Special English Development Report, written by Jill Moss. To more about civil registration, go to voaspecialenglishcom..

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Voa development report - Science Journals Examine Poverty and Development

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. Last Monday, journals around the world published what was called a " Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development." Organizers at Council of Science Editors said the project involved two thirty-five journals from thirty-seven countries. The council said the was to increase interest and research in the subject to spread the results as widely as possible. It the journals were publishing more than seven hundred fifty involving eighty-seven countries in all parts of the world. partial list of the articles is on the Council Science Editors' Web site. The group has urged all that published articles to make them available free to public. This is the third time a global theme has been published. The first issue in nineteen ninety-six with worldwide threats from diseases. Thirty-six journals published articles. second issue in nineteen ninety-seven was on aging. Articles in ninety-seven journals. The editors of the Journal of American Medical Association, JAMA, organized the two earlier issues. published several articles for the newest one. The research how knowledge about effective health interventions can be put use locally to help the poor. Other widely read that published articles included Science, Nature and The Lancet. project also included journals on medicine and biology from Public Library of Science. That nonprofit organization publishes its free of charge on the Internet. The United States Institutes of Health held an event to launch the Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development. A group experts from NIH... and the Council of Science Editors seven articles for recognition. The subjects included childbirth safety, .../, malaria treatment and the effects of influenza on children. United Nations recognized the link between health and development the Millennium Development Goals approved in September of two . But many experts believe the targets for health improvements not be reached at current rates of progress. And the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jill . For a link to the list of journals that part in the global theme issue, go to voaspecialenglishcom.. Steve Ember.

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Voa development report - Hunger: New Causes for Same Old Problem

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United says more than eight hundred fifty million people do have enough food. For this year's World Food Day last week, VOA reporters examined the current causes of . Poverty, disease and conflict have historically threatened food security. , rising food prices and issues like climate change add these threats. A new study warns of future losses world food production because of crop damage from changes the weather. William Cline wrote the study from the for Global Development in Washington. He says countries closest the equator will be hardest hit. For example, he that if nothing is done, global warming could cut food production by up to forty percent by the twenty eighty. Africa and Latin America could lose twenty or more. Governments concerned about global warming and dependence oil are investing in biofuels from corn and other . But Lester Brown at the Earth Policy Institute in says demand for fuel crops is pushing up food . He says the world's eight hundred sixty million automobile are now in direct competition with the two billion people. This comes as grain supplies are at their level in years. Experts see a number of reasons. include not enough investment in agricultural technology. A loss farmland to development. Droughts and floods made worse by change. And, growing competition for water. Population growth also a greater demand on food supplies. The United Nations a population of more than eight billion by the twenty thirty. By that time, demand for animal products double, led by growing economies like China and India. Le Gal of the World Bank says climate change the globalization of trade raise the risk of spreading diseases. Experts say most countries are not ready for health crisis caused by a disease jumping to humans. , finally, they say the growing population of cities is to the world's hunger problem. Danielle Nierenberg at the Institute in Washington says the poor can spend fifty eighty percent of their money on food. She points that city people do not have farm animals to in times of need. So they are especially threatened prices go up. And that's the VOA Special English Report, written by Jill Moss.

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Voa development report - Finding New Ways to Feed the World's Hungry Children

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. October sixteenth World Food Day. The campaign chosen for this year the UN.. Food and Agriculture Organization is "The Right Food." The aim is to demonstrate that human rights increasingly recognized as an important part of ending hunger poverty. Worldwide, the United Nations says more than eight fifty million people do not have enough food. Every an estimated five million children under the age of die of nutrition-related causes. When it comes to food , quantity is important but so is quality. To help at risk, the international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders launched a worldwide appeal. The group is calling for expanded use of what is known as therapeutic ready-to-use to treat severely malnourished children. It also wants this of food added to children's diets to prevent malnutrition ever happening. Ready-to-use-food is usually a sweet spread made peanuts, dry milk, sugar, vegetable fat, minerals and vitamins. food does not have to be mixed with water, in many countries may be dirty. And families do have to go to feeding centers. Individual servings come to eat. Doctor Milton Tectonidis is a nutrition expert Doctors Without Borders. He tells us that traditional methods fighting hunger in children are not meeting their needs. flour or a mixture of corn and soy are used to improve children's diets. But he says this of food aid lacks enough calories and nutrients to malnutrition. The group is doing research in Niger. Doctor says this research has shown that ready-to-use food is effective in keeping children from becoming severely malnourished. The Health Organization estimates that twenty million children at any time suffer from severe malnutrition. Doctor Tectonidis says only percent of them will receive ready-to-use-food this year. Doctors Borders is urging donors, United Nations agencies and governments increase support for ready-to-use food. In addition, Doctor Tectonidis more research is needed to create new forms of . And not just to help children survive and grow, says, but even to support the diets of pregnant . And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written Jill Moss.

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Voa development report - New Findings About Husbands, Wives and AIDS

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. A common about AIDS and marriage is that husbands are more to infect wives than the other way around. Generally this may be true. But a researcher has found women may be responsible for more infections than experts thought. Vinod Mishra at Macro International, a research group the United States, led a study of married couples Africa. He studied what are known as discordant couples. meant one partner had HIV..., the virus that causes , while the other did not. He examined population records medical information from eleven African countries. He found that four of these eleven countries, women were the infected in a majority of cases. This was true in percent of couples in Ivory Coast and Kenya. Wives also the majority of infected partners in Ethiopia and . Lesotho had the smallest percentage of couples where only wife was infected. Yet even there it was thirty-four . How does Vinod Mishra explain these findings? More women be entering marriage already infected, he says. Or they be getting HIV... from non-sexual causes. Maybe they received injection with a needle that had been used before someone with HIV... But the researcher does not think are the main explanations. He says there is clear that a majority of women are getting infected within from a person other than their husband. AIDS prevention to change behavior have been aimed mostly at men. all, men have generally been considered the main source the spread of HIV... This thinking has been guided part by the theories of AIDS investigators based on own reports about their sexual behavior. But Vinod Mishra one possibility is that women are not fully reporting sexual history. He says more research is needed before can be any firm theories about HIV... infections and . This issue is not about who is to blame, tells us, but instead about saving lives and developing best AIDS programs possible. He presented his findings in at a meeting in Rwanda. The event was organized the American effort known as PEPFAR, the Presidents Emergency for AIDS Relief. And that's the VOA Special English Report, written by Jill Moss. To learn more about , go to voaspecialenglishcom.. Im Shep ONeal.

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Voa development report - Project Aims to Raise Demand for Laptops for Poor Children

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. The project as One Laptop Per Child has a new campaign bring its computers to children in developing countries. The will urge people in the United States and Canada spend just under four hundred dollars for two laptops. will go to a child in a poor country. other will go to the buyer. The "Give One, One" campaign will start on November twelfth for two only. Project officials think the donations may help persuade of developing countries to buy more. The green-and-white machines specially designed for children in the developing world. The , called the XO, does not use very much power. if no electricity is available, users can charge the by hand by turning a crank. The computer uses free, open-source operating system Linux. The color display can to a black-and-white image so users are able to it even in bright sunlight. Also, the laptops are to connect wirelessly to each other, as well as Internet if local service is available. They have a . And they are built to resist dirt and moisture. production is expected to begin in October, once a design is approved. The XO laptop is currently being in Cambodia, Thailand, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uruguay, Brazil and Peru. Bender is head of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child project. He says officials hope establish a process through the United Nations for countries make proposals to get free laptops. Donations may be to launch a laptop program in some poor countries, says, but governments are needed to keep it going. between nations could also help. Italy, for example, has to buy fifty thousand laptops for Ethiopia. The project led by Nicholas Negroponte, the founding director of the Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was for three million orders, but so far that has happened. In two thousand five he announced the idea a computer that would cost one hundred dollars. Right , the cost is almost one hundred ninety dollars. Several in Africa and South America have already placed orders. Bender says countries that buy laptops could still receive through donations. And that's the VOA Special English Development , written by Jill Moss. Im Steve Ember.

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Voa development report - Child Deaths Found at Record Low

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. UNICEF says record low number of children are dying before the of five. The United Nations Children's Fund has records to nineteen sixty. It says the number has dropped ten million a year for the first time. By , there were almost thirteen million deaths in nineteen ninety. newest report says nine million seven hundred thousand children five died last year. Almost half were in southern . Just over three million were in South Asia. UNICEF Director Ann Veneman called the new findings historic but unacceptable. She says most of the deaths are preventable. says much of the progress is the result of efforts for early health interventions. One example is feeding only breast milk for the first six months. Also, children against measles has saved many lives. So has use of vitamin A to strengthen children's immune systems, chemically treated bed nets to prevent malaria. Morocco, Vietnam the Dominican Republic have reduced child deaths by more one-third since nineteen ninety-nine-. Madagascar has cut its rate forty-one percent; Sao Tome and Principe by nearly half. says progress in Asia, especially in China and India, helped drive the worldwide reduction since nineteen ninety. Death have dropped sharply in Latin America and the Caribbean, Soviet republics and countries in East Asia and the . Some countries in sub-Saharan Africa have also made considerable . Malawis under-five death rate dropped by twenty-nine percent between thousand and two thousand four. Reductions of more than percent were reported in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda Tanzania as well. In nineteen ninety, Asia had the child deaths. Now, rates are highest in west and Africa. Gains in child survival have fallen to the of HIV and AIDS. By two thousand fifteen, Africa of the Sahara could have almost sixty percent of deaths in children under five. But UNICEF says Latin and the Caribbean are on a path to reach UN.. Millennium Development Goal. The goal is to reduce death rate in children under five by two-thirds from ninety levels ---- and to do that by two fifteen. And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, by Jill Moss. Im Steve Ember.

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Voa development report - New Web Site Targets World's Unsafe Drinking Water

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. More than billion people around the world do not have clean water. Their water supplies are unsafe because of natural man-made pollution, such as industrial chemicals or human and wastes. Water-related diseases, like cholera and guinea worm, kill of people each year, mostly children. Last week the States National Academy of Sciences launched "Safe Drinking Water Essential." This Internet-based resource, at drinking-waterorg-., is presented as first tool of its kind. The aim is to high-quality scientific information about improving the safety of drinking supplies. The information is provided in five languages: English, , Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. Some information is presented in video documentaries. (SOUND) "In rural areas that lack adequate systems, treatment can be applied at the point of , using household treatment technologies. Some of these technologies have low cost and are used in areas around the . Some common treatments used in the developing world include , filtration and solar disinfection. With many treatment options available, is no one-size-fits-all solution." The nonprofit Global Health and Foundation in San Francisco provided money for the project. one hundred thirty science, engineering and medical academies worldwide also involved. These organizations will share information about the Web resource with policy makers in their countries. Also, thousand free copies of DVD versions of the information go to nongovernmental groups working to improve water quality. say the Web site is meant to provide international makers with technical answers to drinking water problems. The will help users learn about the causes of unsafe water and technologies that can improve water quality. The also has world maps that show the levels of of safe drinking water from country to country. Users compare information from nineteen seventy and two thousand two. Glick is a member of the scientific committee that the Web site. He says the failure of the to meet basic human needs for water is a that can be solved. He says education is central, the hope is that this new Internet tool can part of the solution. And that's the VOA Special Development Report, written by Jill Moss. For a link the site, at drinking-waterorg-., go to voaspecialenglishcom.. I'm Steve .

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Voa development report - UNICEF to Work With a Private Group to Fight AIDS

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is the VOA Special English Development Report. UNICEF is with a nonprofit group to bring HIVAIDS programs to women and children in five countries. UNICEF, the United Children's Fund, will work with Family Health International. The partnership will be established at first in Guyana, India, , Nigeria and Zambia. One of the goals is to care for babies infected with HIV..., the virus that AIDS. Another is to prevent the spread of HIV... mother to child. Activities will depend on the needs each country. In some cases, anti-retroviral drugs will be to infected parents of children. Women and children living rural communities will receive most of the services. Steve is the head of communications for Family Health International. says the partnership is separate from UNICEF's international campaign AIDS but will support the goals of the UN.. . Both UNICEF and Family Health International say they hope expand their partnership into more countries in the future. Health International has been working on public health issues nineteen seventy-one-. The organization is based in North Carolina has programs in seventy countries. It does research on diseases and reproductive health, and also provides services. More half of its yearly budget of about two hundred million dollars comes from the United States government. Experts an important part of fighting AIDS is political will. example they point to is Cambodia. That country has getting attention for its progress in reducing some of highest infection rates in Asia. Experts praise the government supporting public education efforts and programs to give condoms sex workers. Prostitutes are taught to enforce a policy "one hundred percent condom use" at sex businesses. But are warnings that HIV... rates could still rise among who have sex with men and among users of drugs. Rates could also rise among so-called indirect sex ---- women who work in bars and clubs. Today eighty percent of all people infected with HIV... in receive life-saving drugs for free. And that's the VOA English Development Report, written by Jill Moss. You can more about HIV... and AIDS at voaspecialenglishcom..

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