The Affordable Medicine Facility–malaria has shown no evidence that it has saved the lives of the most vulnerable or delayed drug resistance.
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End risky malaria scheme
A scheme designed as a ‘silver bullet’ to fight malaria could actually be endangering lives, Oxfam warned today, because medicines are being distributed by unqualified shopkeepers and hawkers rather than trained health workers.
Somalia food and livelihoods alert
An Oxfam survey of households living in poverty across South Central Somalia and Puntland has found that recent poor rains, falling incomes and high food prices are increasing the risk of preventable disease and forcing people to rely on aid. The situation in the south of the country remains critical with alarming malnutrition figures. Almost three quarters of people questioned are concerned they will not have enough to eat over the next four months because of the loss of livestock and livelihoods during last year’s drought, and continued insecurity and poor rains this year. Since the assessment took place flooding in Hiran and predictions of flooding elsewhere in South Central Somalia is likely to make the situation worse.
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Somalia’s food crisis remains critical and likely to worsen in coming months
A new survey of people across 40 regions of Somalia has found that water and food shortages are at critical levels and likely to deteriorate in parts of the country over the coming months, risking a prolonged humanitarian crisis well into next year.
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Our land, our lives: Time out on the global land rush
Land seven and a half times the size of the New Zealand was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people. This is the equivalent to the number of people who go hungry in the world today. Already an area of land the size of Auckland is being sold to foreign investors every four days in poor countries. As the world’s leading standard-setter and a big investor itself, the World Bank should freeze its own land investments and review its policy and practice to prevent land-grabbing. In the past the Bank has chosen to freeze lending when poor standards have caused dispossession and suffering. It needs to do so again, in order to play a key role in stopping the global land rush.
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Land sold off in last decade could grow enough food to feed a billion people
Land seven and a half times the size of New Zealand was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people. This is the equivalent to the number of people who go hungry in the world today.
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