2002-02-04 WHO and Smallpox
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. The World Health Organization has delayed the destruction of thelast remaining supply of smallpox virus in the world. Officials hadplanned to destroy the…
2002-01-28 UNICEF Child Sex Report
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, saysmillions of children are forced to become sex workers every year.Most of the…
2002-01-21 Clearing Land Mines in Afghanistan
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. Each year, thousands of people are killed or injured byexplosions from land mines. This is a serious problem in manydeveloping countries that are…
2002-01-14 Economics and Health
This is the VOA SpecialEnglish Development Report. The World Health Organization has released a report about howdisease weakens the economies of poor countries. For years, peoplebelieved that good health is…
2002-01-07 Storing Drinking Water
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Safe drinking water has always been rare and valuable. Throughoutthe world, drinking water has to be stored for periods of lowrainfall. Tanks…
2001-12-17 Clean Water Campaign
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations says more than one-thousand-million people in the world do not have safe, clean water to drink. This is about…
2001-12-10 Mutated Gene Protects Against Malaria
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. African and Italian scientists have discovered strong evidence that a changed gene for red blood cells protects against the disease malaria. The…
2001-12-03 World Bank-IMF Aid to Poor Nations
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The leaders of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have promised to help poor countries whose economies have been hurt by…
2001-11-26 WTO Agreement on Drug Patents
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Developing countries won a major victory at the World Trade Organization meeting earlier this month in Doha, Qatar. The battle was over…
2001-11-19 Heifer International
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. One of the biggest problems in developing countries is hunger. An organization called Heifer International is working to improve this situation. The…
2001-11-12 HIV in Asia
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health ministers from almost all Asian and Pacific countries have promised to provide more resources to fight AIDS and H-I-V, the virus…
2001-11-05 Nutrition Study in Ivory Coast
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new study has found that women in parts of western Africa need more energy than men because of the amount of…
2001-10-29 WHO and Drug Resistance
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization has called for immediate action to stop the growing threat of drug resistance around the world. Gro Harlem…
2001-10-22 WHO Report on Mental Illness
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization has published a new report on mental health. It says that one out of every four people in…
2001-10-15 Food Assistance in Asia
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The number of people receiving food assistance in Asia rose to a new record high during the first half of this year.…