Getting outside the HIV prevention "comfort zone"
KATHMANDU, 31 July 2013 (IRIN) - Despite years of scientific advances in HIV treatment and prevention, more than two million people are newly diagnosed with HIV annually, demonstrating how community-driven approaches to prevention are still needed to curb the epidemic, experts say. Read report online |
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Analysis: The UN in 2023
DAKAR, 31 July 2013 (IRIN) - The UN and other aid agencies face ever-increasing levels of humanitarian need: the number of recorded disasters has doubled in the past two decades, according to the UN, while the needs-response gap remains stubbornly steady in the context of a shifting humanitarian landscape - with the dominance of UN agencies and the largest 10 international NGOs gradually being eroded as power shifts to the east and south. Read report online |
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Study links hygiene and height
BANGKOK, 1 August 2013 (IRIN) - Soap and clean water for effective handwashing can help boost a young child's growth, according to the first large-scale scientific review to link hygiene to height - one measure of child nutrition. Read report online |
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Colombia's corridor of instability and displacement
EL TARRA, 1 August 2013 (IRIN) - Rosalba Duran and her family of 11 live in a single-room wooden hut on a patch of local government-owned land on the outskirts of El Tarra, in Colombia's northern province of Norte de Santander. Read report online |
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Aid worker job specs in the network age
DAKAR, 1 August 2013 (IRIN) - The evolving humanitarian field, with multiple new actors, an ongoing IT-led information explosion, and a growing focus on accountability and coordination is reshaping the role of aid workers and the future skills they will need. Read report online |
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