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Cambodian women with HIV receive boost from fashion designer and UN agency
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), renowned fashion designer Bibi Russell and Cambodian women living with HIV have joined forces to launch a new line of contemporary bags.
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Sri Lankan rice production wins support from UN-backed project
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced plans today to boost rice production in districts of Sri Lanka hit hard by recent floods or conflict and by the soaring cost of many basic foods.
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Ghana: UNICEF to provide thousands of extra bed nets in fight against malaria
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has unveiled plans to spend an additional $1.7 million for insecticide-treated bed nets in Ghana as part of the fight against the spread of malaria in the West African country.
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African ministers agree to roll out vaccine to fight meningitis - UN agency
Health ministers from sub-Saharan Africa's "meningitis belt" pledged today to introduce a new vaccine that they hope will immunize more than 250 million people against the deadly disease, at a United Nations-backed conference held in Cameroon.
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Increased investment in African farmers needed, says UN rural development chief
The head of the United Nations rural development arm underlined the crucial role played by African farmers in producing food and combating climate change, calling on the international community to boost their support for the agriculture sector on the continent.
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Global social inequalities lead to widely diverging health patterns - UN report
A Japanese woman will live 42 years longer than a woman in Lesotho, and such a staggering disparity in life expectancy is due to inequalities in where people are born, grow up and age, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report issued today.
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UN helping Madagascar increase crop output to reduce costly imports
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is helping Madagascar boost its local food supply, particularly rice, to avoid importing large quantities at high prices to meet the country's food needs for this year.
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Philippines: UN agency boosting food aid to over 200,000 displaced by conflict
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it is scaling up food assistance to more than 220,000 people displaced by fighting in southern Mindanao between Philippine Government troops and forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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More people living in extreme poverty than previously thought - World Bank
The World Bank has revised upward its estimates of the number of the world's poor from nearly 1 billion to 1.4 billion, drawing on new data that indicates that poverty is more widespread across the developing world than previously thought.
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