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AIDS Fight Needs Course Correction, Say Panelists
Prescriptions for combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe include increased funding, focus on local disease drivers, and reassertion of public health goals over political concerns.
Posted: 6/12/2007
Princeton Philosopher Urges Rich to Give More to Poor
Peter Singer's message is uncomfortable: Most people follow a minimalist morality that makes them a lot more immoral than they consider themselves to be.
Posted: 6/4/2007
Crisis Persists in El Salvador
Fifteen years after El Salvador's civil war, says Blanca Flor Bonilla, a member of the Legislative Assembly, extreme poverty is promoting organized crime, mass emigration, and the disintegration of families.
Posted: 5/28/2007
Promises in AIDS Fight Not Met
Focusing on Africa, former UN envoy Stephen Lewis expresses amazement at the passivity of the international community as the HIV/AIDS epidemic traumatizes women, creates orphans, and continues on its decades-long path of devastation. Listen to a Podcast of his speech.
Posted: 5/22/2007
Roots of Epidemic Still Go Unaddressed
Debrework Zewdie, the director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program at the World Bank, argues that efforts to fight the pandemic will come up short as long as "fundamental drivers" such as poverty, gender inequality, and the marginalization of high-risk groups are not dealt with. Listen to a Podcast of her speech.
Posted: 5/22/2007
Women Politicians from Mexico Advocate Change
Representatives of four Mexican political groupings discuss the limited participation of women in politics and seek to build on reforms.
Posted: 4/24/2007
Tackling an Invisible Invader
A local center of excellence could not only diagnose and treat patients with Chagas disease, but also focus on other imported infections unfamiliar to most area physicians.
Posted: 3/26/2007
Bruin Angels: Niranjala and Lokubanda Tillakaratne
Using primarily their own savings, they fund self-help projects for poor Sri Lankan villages, where the Tillakaratnes spend their vacation time each year.
Posted: 12/13/2006
UCLA Digital Library Presents International HIV/AIDS Posters
Online collection of 625 posters from worldwide public health campaigns marks World AIDS Day.
Posted: 11/30/2006
Unknown Voices from Argentina
Photographer Patrick Liotta and Mapuche Indian performer Beatriz Pichi Malen tell of the Mapuche people's bravery and determination in confronting wars, poverty, and domination by various groups.
Posted: 11/17/2006
Democracy's No Panacea for Poverty, Study Finds
Michael Ross, a UCLA political scientist, concluded that democratic countries do no better than their non-democratic counterparts in helping the world's poorest citizens -- a troubling finding, he said, that contradicts the claims made by a generation of scholars.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Experts Assess Iraq's Horrific Toll
Health-care professionals intimately familiar with the war's effects on bodies and minds shared their perspectives at a conference sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, UCLA Extension, and the School of Public Health.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Hope for the World's Dwindling Supply of Drinking Water
The new reverse osmosis (RO) membranes offer a huge improvement over current ones, which clog easily when bacteria and other particles build up on the surface.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Lebanon's War With Cluster Bombs
The 40% of Israeli-dropped 'bomblets' that didn't explode during this summer's war continue to kill Lebanon's most vulnerable, writes Professor Saree Makdisi in the Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 10/25/2006
Bright Lights, Hard Lives
The people of Nigeria's southern delta region benefit little from oil wealth. UCLA panel discussions focus on the causes of their distress.
Posted: 10/11/2006
Speaker Series Measures Laws' Reach in Americas, Beyond
'Transnational moral entrepreneur' and founder of Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan Nadelmann steps back from anti-drug-war stance to look historically at intersection of crime control and international relations. The UCLA Latin American Center is co-sponsoring lectures tied to law school course on globalization.
Posted: 9/26/2006
Equity, Impact at Odds in AIDS Fight: UCLA Study
Allocating scarce antiretroviral drugs to South African cities would prevent the greatest number of infections, a UCLA AIDS Institute study finds.
Posted: 9/11/2006
African Stories in Online Curriculum Give Meaning to 'Globalization'
16 short tales, and warring commentaries on them, form the core of GlobaLink-Africa, a free, year-long, multimedia curriculum designed for grades 9-12. The polished, feature-rich web site is not only for high schoolers. Others can raid it for music, country data, or a crash course on Africa and the contemporary world.
Posted: 8/14/2006
Center Focusing on Africa, Globalization Launches Multimedia High School Curriculum
GlobaLink-Africa, a free resource for students and teachers, was four years in the making. GRCA celebrated its launch with African and Afro-Brazilian musical and dance performances.
Posted: 5/25/2006
Diary Gives a Face to HIV/AIDS Battle
Woman records experience on radio to bring patients hope, erase stigma attached to illness.
Posted: 5/2/2006
Beyond the Headlines
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2005: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Posted: 3/8/2006
Want to Promote Development? Fight AIDS
Director of World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program discusses magnitude of a long-term epidemic, strategies for saving lives.
Posted: 3/3/2006
Making Up for Minamata
Japanese literary scholar Keiko Kanai reviews a half-century of social activism on the issue of compensation for the people of Minamata, Japan, a bayside town poisoned by industrial waste in 1955.
Posted: 12/6/2005
Students Take Action to Fight AIDS
The focus of this year's World AIDS Day was to raise awareness locally as well as shed light on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted: 12/2/2005
He cares for tortured and enslaved among immigrants
UCLA Today profiles psychiatrist who works with patients from 25 countries.
Posted: 11/30/2005
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