USAID

July 17, 2008 -- At the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) in Rome, the United States and more than 180 world leaders pledged to halve the total number of undernourished people worldwide from the 1990 level---a commitment that they reaffirmed in 2000 when they established the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which included a target to halve the proportion or the percentage of the world's population that is undernourished by 2015.    » read more »

02 March 2008 -- The United Nations estimates that 2.5 million children are infected with HIV / AIDS, with nearly 90 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Activists in the fight against the disease say one of the best ways to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus is to prevent unintended births.

In recent years, anti-retroviral AIDS drugs have been in the forefront of the fight to prevent the spread of the disease from a mother to her baby.    » read more »

Residential Energy Efficiency Solutions to Meet the Burden of Rising Energy Bills in Europe and Eurasia

Oct. 25, 2007 -- A new study by the Alliance to Save Energy on “Addressing Affordability of Utility Services in Urban Households: Energy Efficiency Solutions” is now available online.    » read more »