This is the VOA Special English Development Report.A new study says Asia must do more to prevent AIDS, or the number of people infected with H.I.V. could double by two thousand twenty.Seven-year-old AIDS patient in Bangkok, ThailandToday about five million people in Asia are living with the virus th...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.A child looks on as she is fed by her mother during an AIDS march in South Africa. The Treatment Action Campaign organized the march in Cape Town.South Africa has the highest number of H.I.V. cases of any country in the world. An estimated five and ...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Breathing smoke from cooking stoves or open fires is a common cause of lung infections in developing countries. Indoor air pollution is blamed for an estimated four thousand deaths every day, mostly women and children.A nonprofit group based in the ...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.M.I.T.'s Jameel Poverty Action Lab does economic research to help the poorIf you give something to someone for free, will that person value it and use it? Development experts have debated this question for decades. Some say the act of paying causes ...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.M.I.T.'s Jameel Poverty Action Lab does economic research to help the poorIf you give something to someone for free, will that person value it and use it? Development experts have debated this question for decades. Some say the act of paying causes ...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Starting a business is never easy. But an organization like TechnoServe can make it easier. A businessman in the American state of Connecticut, Ed Bullard, launched this nonprofit group forty years ago. The name comes from the idea of technology in ...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The United States Center for Citizen Diplomacy is a nonprofit group started in Iowa in two thousand six. It says every American has the right, and even the responsibility, to help shape foreign relations "one handshake at a time."Last week, in Washi...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Some actors and rock stars use their star power for social activism. But how much power do they really have?Daniel Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Massachusetts. He says measuring the ef...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley. In those days, paper was made from strips of the papyrus plant.Modern paper-making began in China about two thousand years ago. This process p...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The Internet search engine company called Google has announced it will give more than twenty-five million dollars in money and investments to help the poor. The money will be spent over the next five to ten years in several areas, including poverty ...
This VOA Special English Development Report.A windbreak of treesFarmers use different kinds of soil conservation methods to protect their land against damage from farming and the forces of nature. One important form of soil conservation is the use of windbreaks.Windbreaks are barriers formed by tree...
woResearchers rate legislative powers in 158 countries.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Governments are always judged by how they use power. But they differ by how they divide power. Some have strong presidents or prime ministers. Others have military control. But political scienti...
Volunteers from a group called Engineers Without Borders are working on 300 projects in 45 countries.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Sometimes it takes an engineer to help a village. In poor communities, that help may come from volunteers with a group called Engineers Without Bord...
Last week we described how to prepare fish by cleaning and salting them. Now, the next steps.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Today we have the second of two reports explaining how to prepare fish by drying or smoking them for future use.We talked last week about the first steps of...
Rule number one: begin with fish that are just out of the water. First of two parts.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Canning and freezing are not the only ways to keep fish for future use. Today we have the first of two reports describing, step by step, how to prepare dried or smok...
The Global Text Project aims to fill a Web-based library with 1,000 textbooks.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Books are a high cost of higher education. But the Global Text Project hopes to create a free library of one thousand electronic textbooks for students in developing count...
MobileActive.org seeks to share knowledge of people using mobile phones to effect change.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Pro-democracy activists in 2006 listen to parliament proceedings on a mobile phone in Katmandu, NepalActivists fight for different things. But one thing many ac...
Physicians for Peace sends teams of volunteers to developing countries to provide medical training and care.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.How do you define diplomacy? For the group Physicians for Peace, diplomacy is all about bringing medical education and care to places where t...
The stories of Jesse Lazear, Clara Maass, Joseph Goldberger, Matthew Lukwiya, Carlo Urbani and Anita Roberts.VOICE ONE :This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, the stories of some medical heroes.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:At the start of...
Mohammed Bah Abba's pot-in-pot cooling system.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.A few degrees can make a big difference when it comes to food storage. Foods can go bad if they get too warm. But for many of the world's poor, finding a good way to keep food cool is difficult. Refriger...
