Millions of children in less developed countries, particularly girls, are being deprived of an education because their parents cannot afford to pay school fees

It would cost the same to train all the teachers poor countries need as the world spends every two and half days on warfare.

The U.S. Senate’s vote Tuesday to increase America’s contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is an important first step toward ensuring that life-saving treatments begun under the program will continue uninterrupted, said RESULTS, an advocacy group working to end hunger and poverty.

The G8 leaders brought the Gleneagles summit to a close today with the signing of a $50bn (£28.8bn) deal that Tony Blair said would give hope that poverty in Africa could be ended.

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Speech by Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer at the annual lecture to UNICEF From debt relief to empowerment

Whatever triumphs for the developing world are hailed at the G8 in July, a heavy reckoning faces the world in September, when the UN meets to review progress towards such crucial targets as poverty, ill-health, education and clean water.

Paul Wolfowitz, the new head of the World Bank and close ally of George Bush, said yesterday he was returning from a week-long trip to Africa to urge the Bush administration to help fund a big aid push for the continent

Africa needs at least US $1 billion every year to combat the alarming increase in the number of orphans, a phenomenon that threatens to destabilise the continent

On Wednesday 15th June the Stop AIDS campaign let the UK Government know that they'll be watching them