December 2011
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BREAKING: Kim Jong II, the North Korean Dictator, has died.
HIV/AIDS impacts women and girls differently to men (and boys) - the ways in which the impacts differ are organised into neat little row of easy to read dot points
Hillary Clinton has addressed the UN about defending the rights of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) people around the world. It’s an amazing moment in history and...
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“Four years out from the deadline set for the Millennium Development Goals, not a...”
– Dereck Rooken-Smith is the Assistant Director-General for the Office of Development Effectiveness.
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“The evidence suggests that the truth lies in the in-between: Microfinance works...”
– Leah Stern asks What do we really know about microfinance? The answer - it works for some people, some of the time, and is not the silver bullet it’s made out to be.
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“The collapse of the News of the World is partly the result of a new...”
– Owen Barder on how twitter and new media are impacting politics. Fascinating.
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Living with HIV in PNG
Sylvester Pokona is just 38 years old, but has the life experience of a man much older. A survivor of the Bougainville crisis – the civil war which gripped Bougainville in Papua New Guinea from 1988 to 1990, all the events of his life since then have been impacted by the conflict, including his status as a person living with HIV.
Since finding out his HIV positive status, Sylvester has become...