The Issues Affecting Global Poverty
Knowledge is power: Learn the basics about the fight against global poverty and disease.
HIV/AIDS and Other Infectious Diseases
Approximately 9,000 people die every day from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Nearly two-thirds of these people are living in sub-Saharan Africa. MORE
Maternal and Child Health
In the world's poorest countries, mothers risk their lives giving birth and millions of children die each year from treatable, preventable causes such as diarrhoea. MORE
Agriculture
Growth in agriculture is twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors. MORE
Open Development
Open Development is about people in developing countries having the information and resources that they need to hold their governments accountable and to make well-informed decisions to improve their lives. MORE
Energy Poverty
Nearly a third of humanity has insufficient access to electricity and modern energy sources. This seriously limits many aspects of human development and poverty reduction. MORE
Development Assistance
Development assistance plays a critical role in the fight against extreme poverty and disease. MORE
Water and Sanitation
Across the world, 780 million people do not have access to clean water and 2.5 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation. MORE
Debt Cancellation
For decades, poor countries spent more money repaying old debts than they did on health and education combined, and now they are at risk of accumulating new debt burdens. MORE
Trade and Investment
Trade that creates economic growth and opportunities for the poorest people is key to ending poverty in the long-term. MORE
Climate and Development
Climate change is not a crisis of developing countries' making, yet the impacts of global climate change will disproportionately hit the world's poorest people. MORE
