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...Ross Benes International organizations have repeatedly deceived donors to secure ever more funding for AIDS-relief efforts. Ross Benes discusses the incentives for biomedical companies and groups like UNAIDS to mislead the public, while cheaper, more effective solutions remain underfunded...

... of Clinton’s speech, there was just one Liberian organization devoted to working with sexual minorities: Stop AIDS in Liberia, or SAIL, which, as the name suggests, focuses on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among men who have sex with men. The group had seven members working out of a cramped office...

... began the migrant crisis as the continent's life guard and first-aid provider, but Europe has now forced the country to be its warden, too. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 refugees migration Greece European Union asylum refugee crisis CHIOS, Greece—Ahmed Abdo spends his...

... were 250 local Angolan laborers. A growing diaspora of as many as 70,000 Chinese migrants populate Angola, which, along with a growing list of other developing countries, has found the generous pocketbooks of China’s foreign aid policy in the form of infrastructure projects. By most projections...

... international funders nevertheless insisted As if the political challenges besetting Aris­ on its resumption before promising further tide upon his return were not already suffi­ financial aid. ciently daunting, his international backers This external pressure undermined pressured him to carry out...

... François Mitterrand, or something simpler? How much of the already strapped aid resources will be put to these new tools? And to what extent will for-profit tech companies like Google and Facebook step up to fill these gaps? Take 23-year-old Karine Asala. A single mother living in Kavumu, Asala dreams...

... B arbara Crossette Obscured by the debate over the Bush ad­ in cutting high poverty rates, alleviating ministration’s occupation of Iraq and the food shortages, and reducing widespread tactics of antiterrorism warriors at home, transmission of the virus that causes AIDS...

.... Nearly one in ten people in Jordan is a Syrian refugee. As is the case in Lebanon, various vulnerable categories overlap that increase the risk of HIV infection. Dire economic conditions have led to early marriage and sexual exploitation of Syrian women, aid workers told The Guardian early last year...

... million—it is just a fraction of the lavish aid that Turkey has been ladling on the war- and famine-stricken nation since Erdogan’s late-night call to Sarıcaoglu. Erdogan’s visit was not spontaneous—it came only a few weeks after al-Shabab relinquished control over Mogadishu. By that time, representatives...

... to safety from some form of violent in 2002, over 25 million people have died attack. A decade ago, the United Nations, of AIDS in the past two decades and 40 mil­ in the Declaration of Principles on Human lion people are currently living with H IV. By Rights and the Environment (1994), broad­...

... their poverty, and support sustainable develop­ economic reform programs and improve ment. These fine words were then dis­ governance, and on the developed countries tilled— after consultation with the Interna­ to step up their support by providing more tional Monetary Fund (IMF), the World aid...

... at Swarthmore College, and the coauthor o/Drug W ar Politics: The Price of Denial. Two Wars or One? Drugs, Guerrillas, and Colombia’s New Violencia William AÍ. LeoGrande and Kenneth E. Sharpe The recently approved $1.3 billion aid small peasants grow coca under the FARC’s package...

... always to outstrip the resources. past the military and police checkpoints “You can talk about the dilemmas of aid all that ring the city and are meant to provide you want here,” one relief worker told me, some kind of bulwark against the Hutu “but if we were to leave, people would die...

... not even receive the official title of “camps,” but rather “informal settlements,” and are thus not afforded the protection of aid agencies or international law that official refugees receive. As fighting has intensified with a surge in military operations against Taliban strongholds, 91,000 Afghans have...

... the 1994 genocide in Rwan­ dented scale of suffering. Without mini­ da, and who were skimming international mizing recent horrors in Somalia, Bosnia, aid to rearm in preparation for returning to Rwanda and Sierra Leone, nothing in the Rwanda to complete the genocide. Among last decade has exceeded...

.... As the bore holes milled and there were no seeds to plant. The went dry and plants withered, the world Zambian government stubbornly refused the saw the all too familiar pictures of women aid altogether. “Simply because my people and children lining up for the daily handful are hungry...

... unconditional aid to pariah leaders . Dealing with these challenges will not require budget-busting aid programs or massive global transfers of wealth. What they need is sustained steady funding and commitment, which is harder than it sounds. Trillion dollar wars are politically easier to fund than much...

... tools in the hands of anti-Western insurgents. And aid workers—devoted to improving desperate conditions in a war-torn country—become targets for deadly violence. design by Nick Robalik In a perverse way, the attack—and many others like it—mirror another blurring, one that has increasingly...

... States should provide targeted foreign aid frastructure spending could threaten those for Mexican education and infrastructure ratings, especially if those new expenditures spending. Last year, Mexico spent just $1.1 were not offset by politically unpopular billion on school construction and only...