Africa

Combatting COVID-19’s effect on children   The COVID‑19 pandemic is harming health, social and material well-being of children worldwide, with the poorest children, including homeless children and children in detention, hit hardest. School closures, social distancing and confinement increase the risk of poor nutrition among children, their exposure to domestic violence, increase their anxiety and […]

Facts About Hunger In Developing Countries Here are ten facts about hunger in developing countries, the poorest countries in the northern hemisphere. Please help raise awareness by sharing these facts on Twitter. 2,500,000 developing countries live in extreme poverty. Developing countries are the poorest countries in the northern hemisphere. Two developing countries out of three

Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Africa’s Double Jeopardy World AIDS Day, observed December 1st, is an opportunity both to call attention to the continuing challenges to end infections globally, and in the case of Africa, to shed new light on the link between poverty, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and other diseases, and the need for deep and

Hundreds of thousands of African children suffer in slavery One afternoon in Port-au-Prince, Africa, sitting on the back of a motorcycle-taxi stuck in traffic, I was absently staring down a wide unpaved side-street when the small figure of a young girl came into focus. Her silhouette was boldly present against the sunlight behind her and