Philippines

08.09.2010
Albay to hold HIV Summit: UNDP urges strengthened local responses to halt HIV and AIDS
Legazpi City (9 August) -- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has urged HIV and AIDS advocates or champions to strengthen their local responses to halt the continues spread of the virus in the Philippines.

06.02.2010
Annie Lennox named UNAIDS goodwill ambassador
GENEVA—Scottish rock singer Annie Lennox has become a spokeswoman for the U.N. agency fighting HIV/AIDS.

05.29.2010
Gov’t fails to arrest HIV-AIDS spread in RP, says UN rep
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines continues to fall short of its sixth Millennium Development Goal, which is halting and reversing the spread of the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) the incurable and fatal disease it causes, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

05.20.2010
No HIV care for 90% of gay men in Asia Pacific: UN
HONG KONG (AFP) – More than 90 percent of gay men in the Asia Pacific region don't have access to HIV prevention and care services, as levels of the disease soar to "alarming levels", a UN report said Monday.

05.17.2010
Most gay men in Asia-Pacific region 'denied HIV care'
Some 90% of gay men in the Asia-Pacific region are denied access to HIV/Aids help because of discriminatory laws in many states, a UN-backed report says.

05.17.2010
HIV among gay, bisexual men at alarming highs in Asia
HONG KONG (Reuters) - HIV prevalence among gay and bisexual men has hit alarming levels in Asia and most of them do not have access to services and care due to punitive laws which drive them underground, a U.N.-backed report said on Monday.

03.29.2010
Editorial: War over water
WATER, so goes the cliché, is life. But water—dirty, untreated, tainted with chemicals—can also be death, a reality that confronts billions of people around the world.

03.22.2010
Helen Clark: Address to ILO on the Social Dimension of Globalization
It is an honour and privilege for me to address this ILO Working Party on the Social Dimension of Globalisation this morning.

03.22.2010
EDITORIAL - Clean water for a healthy world
World Water Day is marked today with approximately 884 million people, most of them in Africa, living without access to safe drinking water.

03.20.2010
When water becomes source of conflict
BAYUGAN CITY, Philippines—Water for farm irrigation is a prime commodity in Bayugan, a newly declared city of agricultural communities in Agusan del Sur where heart-rending, violent stories about irrigation water’s distribution flood many farmers’ memories.