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  • Health and Education For All Blog

    Robbing the poor to pay the rich – Novartis’ Christmas gift to itself!

    16 December 2008 | Rohit Malpani | 3 comments

    Imagine my horror when I discovered that a major pharmaceutical company has taken away up to $300 million that should have instead been spent developing new medicines for neglected diseases.
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  • Climate Change Blog

    UN Climate Talks: the verdict

    13 December 2008 | Theo Ratcliff | 1 comments

    The UN Climate Talks in Poznan went on late into the night last night. I left at about midnight, because frankly I could not understand a word of the proceedings. Every second word was an unfamiliar acronym, an obscure technical term, or a document reference number, so I left the Oxfam policy team to decipher what was happening and met up with them again in the morning.
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    Delay kills

    12 December 2008 | Theo Ratcliff | 2 comments

    So I'm sitting down to write today's blog, with my socks on the radiator and my free UN mittens on my icy feet, when I get the call. "Al Gore's giving a speech at 1.15!".  I had been about to describe in great detail the new Oxfam ice sculpture that was carved this morning at the entrance to the UN Climate Talks here in Poznan - in two massive blocks of ice - the cold, hard truth - "Delay Kills".
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    Access to Medicines campaign launched in Malawi

    12 December 2008 | Shenard Mazengera | 0 comments

    Giving people living with HIV and AIDS a voice

    The Access to Medicines campaign in Malawi was officially launched on 17th October 2008, World Poverty Day. The campaign is being supported by Oxfam International and being led by the Malawi Health Equity Network and other local NGOS, including the National Association of People Living with HIV and REACH Trust.
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    Stamping out the myth behind carbon footprints

    11 December 2008 | Theo Ratcliff | 2 comments

    Rich countries have a habit of pointing out how emissions from emerging economies such as China and India are increasing rapidly. This is true - but we need to have a closer look at the facts...

    Emission levels per head in China and India are far below those in developed countries. In fact, if every country had the same per capita emissions as China, we would be able to cut gobal emissions by 30% below 1990 levels. So which country's people have had the biggest average carbon footprints between 1990 and 2004? Drag the flags onto the feet in the diagram below to find out...
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