The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up for an innovative new programme in Zimbabwe that will enable poor farming households to improve food ...

Fresh Energy Animates Work Toward Millenium Development Goals NEW YORK, New York, September 13, 2010 (ENS) – World leaders, bankers, executives and celebrities are engaged in an all-out push for ...

Doctor Susan Lieberman, Director of WWF's Species Programme, looks at the way forward to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, increase sustainable development and benefit species conservation.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most ...

It is now well-established that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide and that the burden of CVD is greatest in low-income and middle-income countries. According to the ...

As world leaders gather in New York this week to discuss the future of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, critics are warning that many of the targets cannot be evaluated scientifically ...

Ahead of a UN Millennium Development Goals summit in September, read views from experts arguing for and against the MDGs, and join in the debate. The MDGs came from the reactions to structural ...

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

Chevron, Johnson & Johnson and BD announced at the GBCHealth Annual Conference earlier this month commitments to combat HIV/AIDS, improve maternal and child health and advance tuberculosis initiatives ...

RIYADH, 27 November 2006 -- Prince Faisal Bin Salman, chairman of the board of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG), will inaugurate today a two-day seminar on Saudi media's role in the ...

On September 25 world leaders will meet in New York to formalise the new Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals will guide efforts to reduce poverty and increase well-being, without destroying ...

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