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Ending the Stigma of Children Living With HIV

Mark Leon Goldberg at 10/10/2008 4:06PM

Singer-Songwriter and AIDS activist Annie Lennox discusses the stigma surrounding children with HIV. Via UNICEF. (Cross posted to UN Dispatch)

Another Blow to Reproductive Health

John Boonstra at 10/10/2008 3:49PM

Once again, Nicholas Kristof is rightly appalled at another Bush administration policy that will jeopardize reproductive health and safety for some of the poorest people in the world. Following its

Get Out the Youth Vote

Mark Leon Goldberg at 10/10/2008 10:30AM

My first post on this blog was about the importance and significance of the millennial generation's vote this year. Via Kos, here is a powerful video on why youth must get out and vote next mont

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Reform Foreign Assistance

Posted by Jamie Zimmerman at 4/3/2008 2:11PM

We spend $23.5bn on foreign assistance, much of which is mismanaged and corrupted, and not ending up in the hands of those to whom it's intended (i.e. the poor!). The next president needs to make a concerted effort to reform our broken foreign assistance programs. We should use PROVEN models of assistance that will provide for wealth accumulation for the poor from the bottom up -- things like development of microfinance, conditional cash transfer programs, and child development accounts.

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