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A Mile In Their Shoes - Discover more about the background to the programme which kick started the Sport Relief 2004 campaign. How did Victoria Beckham end up digging through a waste heap in Peru?
Making A Difference - Simon Cousins visits Uganda to see how the country copes with an increasing number of HIV+ people, and the other challenges facing this developing nation.
From BBC World Service:
The AIDS Season - a wide ranging collection of articles from around the Globe offering in-depth analysis and reports
From BBC News:
Fighting AIDS apathy - India is suffering a massive rise in the proportion of its population with HIV. But nobody wants to talk about it.
Japan's AIDS time bomb - It's not only the poorer countries facing a health crisis in the future. Could Japan's laid back approach to education about the disease mean trouble ahead?
Botswana Turns The Corner - Forty per cent of the sexually active population of Botswana are HIV+, but by attempting to destigmatise the condition, the country is starting the fight back.
Charities, Governmental and Non-Governmental Bodies
AIDS2004 - Official site of the 15th International Conference on AIDS, held in Bangkok in July 2004
ActionAid - ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK's largest development agencies, they work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of the world poorest people.
AVERT - UK based International Aids Charity offering a resource-rich website on HIV AIDS.
Oxfam - Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.
With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, members of Oxfam International believe they can achieve greater impact in addressing issues of poverty by their collective efforts.
Save the Children Fund - Working worldwide, Save The Children aim to make immediate improvements in the lives of children everywhere.
UK Department for International Development - The Department for International Development (DFID) was established in 1997, as the successor to the Overseas Development Administration, previously part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). DFID's overall aim is to reduce global poverty and promote sustainable development, in particular through achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
UN Aids - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.
UNDP - From politics to security to public health, from crime to the environment, a growing agenda of development issues can no longer be managed within the boundaries of any single nation. Global, regional and national coalitions for action are emerging centred around the United Nations' indispensable role.
UNDP graph - ‘see a country’s development changes’.
Many of the key messages of Human Development Report 2003 are brought alive in these animated graphics. The first set is a presentation highlighting a number of messages found in the Report, including:
The progress and reversals in health and income since 1960.
The tragic setbacks in development during the 1990s.
The large differences within countries, explored using data on Chinese provinces
UNICEF - UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. They have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. They are unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young.
VSO - VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers. Their vision is a world without poverty in which people work together to fulfil their potential.
War Child - War Child is a network of independent organisations working across the world to help children affected by war. The War Child organisation stands on the twin beliefs: that we’re not free to ignore an innocent victim’s plea for help and that children are the seed-corn of society, its future hope.
The World Bank - The World Bank Group’s mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty.
