Environment
Pour electronic waste into poor countries
New America Media reported that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not seem to do anything about the US situation of e-waste dumping into third world count…
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Environment
China: Rich countries need to help poor countries improve their climate
China on October 29 called for developed economies to take the lead in international efforts to deal with climate change.
Medicine - Health
Medical equipment for poor countries
The World Health Organization estimates that up to three quarters of medical equipment donated from the West are completely useless in the world's poorest countries.
Medicine - Health
Poor countries have limited access to H1N1 flu vaccine
China has become the first country in the world to publish a successful clinical trial of human influenza A / H1N1 vaccine.
Medicine - Health
Abbott reduced the price of drugs for AIDS in poor countries
Abbott Laboratories, a major US pharmaceutical company, has agreed to reduce the price of drugs to treat AIDS for more than 40 poor countries. This announcement comes am…
Medicine - Health
The number of AIDS patients in poor countries that have been treated has not reached the goal
The number of AIDS patients treated in poor and developing countries has tripled in two years and by the end of 2005 reached more than 1.3 million people. That is the re…
Computer science
Technology waste causes death in poor countries
Ivory Coast has seen at least 10 people die and more than 70,000 people have to be treated because toxins emanate from hi-tech waste buried around Abidjan region. The Un…
Computer science
Intel spends $ 1 billion to promote Internet use in poor countries
On May 2, Intel said it is planning to spend $ 1 billion over the next five years to promote Internet use and IT training in developing countries. This is the company's…
New technology
As a poor country, Cuba owns technology to the United States
Cuba is an economically poor country, subject to long-term sanctions but possesses a massive amount of medical and biological technology assets that make the United Stat…