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…
2001-07-16 WHO and Tuberculosis
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization says the disease tuberculosis could be brought under control in the next five years if nations would provide…
2001-07-09 World Refugee Day
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations estimates that about twenty-two-million people in the world are refugees. To honor them, the U-N celebrated its first international…
2001-07-02 WHO Assembly
This is the VOA Special English DEVELOPMENT REPORT. The head of the World Health Organization says important efforts are being made to fight the world’s serious health problems. But she…
2011-12-20 Digest – Study Confirms Earth-like Planet in What Scientists Call
MARIO RITTER: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Mario Ritter. BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein. Today, we tell about the discovery of a planet…
2011-12-13 Digest – Looking Inside the Brains of ‘Lucid Dreamers’
FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Today, we tell how warmer weather in the Arctic…
2011-11-22 Anthrax Has Been Widely Feared Since the 2001 Anthrax Attacks in the United States
BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And I’m Christopher Cruise. Today we tell about the deadly disease anthrax. (MUSIC)…