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Bank to Mobilize over $7bn for Health, Education
The Bank said today it is mobilizing over $7 billion for health and education to help poor countries battle threats to their social services during the crisis. The new health and education numbers...
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World AIDS Day 2012: Looking to the Future, Learning From the Past
Read this post in Español, Français, عربيAlthough I have committed much of my career to the global fight against HIV and AIDS, this year's World AIDS Day is a special one for me in two ways. First,...
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Want to Build a Movement? Learn from AIDS Activists
Building social movements. I often hear about the need to create social movements to tackle a number of entrenched global challenges such as ending extreme poverty, promoting greater income equality,...
View ArticlePresident Kim on Discrimination’s Hefty Human and Economic Costs
Jim Yong Kim knows something about prejudice. When he was growing up Asian American in Iowa, kids would make “kung fu” gestures and hurl racial slurs at him. In an op-ed published in the Washington...
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I Set a Target. I Failed. I’m Still Setting Them.
I’m a big believer in setting highly ambitious targets in order to galvanize communities and countries to take action on serious issues. When I was at the World Health Organization in 2003, we set a...
View ArticleGet smarter: A world of development data in your pocket!
Many dinner conversations and friendly debates proceed in a data vacuum: “The problem is big… very big!” How big exactly? Most likely your friend has no idea. It is often said that we live in a new...
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Gender-based violence: lesbian and transgender women face the highest risk...
Strategies to curb violence against women too often exclude the experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is marking this year’s 16 Days of Activism to...
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The (actual and scientifically derived) healing power of the sea
This week is unique. December 1 was World AIDS Day –a moment to unite with the community touched by HIV and push forward in the fight. December 4 is Ocean Day at COP21 – an opportunity to advance the...
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Gender-based violence and HIV infection: Overlapping epidemics in Brazil
One woman is victimized by violence every 15 seconds in Brazil, with a total of 23% of all Brazilian women experiencing violence in their lifetime. There are many notable consequences affecting...
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Edutainment changes the way we do development
Improving people’s lives is more than offering services. It requires people to be active participants in development, demanding services and products that add value to their lives and engaging in...
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