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Spain this year will allocate one million euros, or about .3 million, for research into the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine as part of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Wednesday, Xinhuanet |
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President Bush intends to reappoint Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Chairman of the American Red Cross Board of Governors, for a second three-year term, it was announced yesterday. The Red Cross Board of Governors unanimously recommended Ms. McElveen-Hunter's re |
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Richard Holbrooke -- president of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations -- on Tuesday called on companies to increase their involvement in the global fight against HIV and o |
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Yi-Chang Chiu wants to move people efficiently - lots of people, millions of people - in response to a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
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The United Nations World Food Programme welcomed an
announcement of a critically needed contribution worth in excess of US 20
million dollars by the Republic of Korea (RoK) to WFP's food assistance to the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday by voice vote approved a foreign aid spending bill that would allow the federal government to give contraceptives but not money to international groups barred from receiving U.S. aid because of their aborti |
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On Monday June 11, 2007, Elsa Serfass was struck by a bullet while travelling in the Ngaoundai region of northwest Central African Republic (CAR). She died at 12.30pm local time. |
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A significant disruption of day-to-day life can take place in those areas affected by a natural disaster. One of the more recent disasters occurred when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in late August 2005, causing loss of lives, extensive damage, |
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Lesotho needs urgent international assistance to avert a major food
crisis because of high cereal prices after this year's main cereal harvest
was ravaged by one of the worst droughts in 30 years, says a new report by
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