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Climate change: the ultimate early warning 17/06/2009 To many people enduring its effects worldwide, the global economic crisis must have felt like what we, in the humanitarian sphere, call a “sudden-onset” disaster. One day, it seemed, they had jobs and houses and futures; the next they didn’t. Read full story |
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Breathing new life into the principle of humanity 04/05/2009 How has today’s world come to have 2.6 billion vulnerable people, a figure amounting to almost half the world population? This is a question that nags us every day, one that sometimes haunts us, the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that form the world’s largest humanitarian network and make up the International Federation, which will be celebrating its 90th anniversary on 5 May. Read full story |
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Tuberculosis : lack of information is a killer 23/03/2009 Tuberculosis (TB) remains a high cause of mortality throughout the world. In 2006, some 1.7 million people lost their lives due to TB. Among them, 200,000 were also living with HIV. They are suffering what is commonly called “co-infection". Eastern Europe, Central Asia and - more recently - southern Africa are often considered as the most affected areas but the fact is that TB is also on the rise in Latin America and Asia – especially India and China - making it a prevalent global challenge. Read full story |
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