What We’re Reading 2/20/09
Government Cutbacks Leave Faith-Based Services Hurting
A profile on how faith-based charities, which provide an enormous array of private social services to the nation’s sick, elderly and poor, are facing unprecedented cutbacks from one of their biggest funders: the government.
AP: Report says 42 percent of pregnant women in Swaziland infected with HIV
About 42 percent of pregnant women in Swaziland are infected with the virus that causes AIDS, a 3 percent jump in a single year, according to a government report released Friday.
New York Times: Entrepreneurial Edge: As Others Dig In, the Venturesome Set Out
A look at how entrepreneurs are making the best of the current state of the economy and even starting programs to further development.
Financial Times: Soros analysts eye Nigeria’s banking sector
George Soros’s $20bn hedge fund company is scouting potential opportunities in Nigeria’s banking sector, where valuations have collapsed during the past year amid intensifying fears about the level of supervision and transparency. Senior analysts from Soros Fund Management visited Nigeria this week to meet bankers and government officials, raising hopes in the market of a return of foreign interest after many portfolio investors fled during the course of the past year.
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Fight the Famine, Feed the Future
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger. -
Crisis in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food. -
The Beginning of the End of AIDS
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS. -
Agriculture Accountability
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
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