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.…
2001-10-08 Yellow Fever in Ivory Coast
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization has launched a campaign to prevent yellow fever from spreading in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Health officials say at…
2001-10-01 Africa/Hospice Care
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund was established in September, Nineteen-Ninety-Seven. For its fourth anniversary, the British-based organization is launching a…
2001-09-24 Internet in Malaysia
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Malaysia has developed a program to help bring technology to schools around the country. It is a traveling bus equipped with twenty…
2001-09-17 World Child Hunger
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new food policy study says progress toward reducing hunger among children will likely slow during the next twenty years. The International…
2001-09-10 Street Food Safety
This the VOA Special English DEVELOPMENT REPORT. Street food is food that is prepared, sold and eaten on citystreets. Street food is an important part of the diets of people…
2001-09-03 Leishmaniasis Disease
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health experts are growing concerned about the rise in leishmaniasis (LEASH-ma-NIGH-a-sis) disease around the world. Currently, the World Health Organization estimates twelve-million…
2001-08-27 Cars and Crops
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Experts say cars and crops are competing for land in many parts of the world. They say this will increase in the…
2001-08-20 World Population
This is the VOA Special English DEVELOPMENT REPORT. A new study has found that the population of the world may stop growing sooner than expected. The world population now is…
2001-08-13 WHO Leprosy
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization says its ten-year campaign to remove leprosy as a world health problem has been successful. Doctor Gro Harlem…
2001-08-06 African Sleeping Sickness
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. African Sleeping Sickness is once again threatening many countries south of the Sahara Desert. The disease is caused by the trypanosome parasite.…
2001-07-30 United Nations Special Session on Children
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations General Assembly will hold a special session on children beginning September Nineteenth. The meeting will bring together government leaders,…
2001-07-23 Medical Information on the Internet
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Six major publishers have announced an agreement to provide developing countries with medical publications on the Internet computer system. The agreement includes…