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From Sir Stephen O’Brien
  • UK push to wipe out Guinea worm disease

    Britain is backing the Carter Center in a new project that will see the end of Guinea worm within this decade

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Stephen O'Brien: In a world of seven billion people

    Stephen O'Brien's speech on World Population Day to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health and International Planned Parenthood Federation, 11 July 2011.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK works towards zero infections of HIV

    Today the UK announced it will help reduce new HIV infections by at least half a million among women in Africa by 2015.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Stephen O’Brien: AIDS - towards zero infections

    Speech by Stephen O'Brien to the United Nations General Assembly on 9 June 2011.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Minister speaks to WI members on maternal health

    International Development Minister Stephen O’Brien MP yesterday attended the Women's Institute's Women Reaching Women Project Conference.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Women Reaching Women Conference

    International Development Minister Stephen O'Brien's speech to the National Federation of Women's Institutes - Women Reaching Women Conference, Tuesday 12 April 2011.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Minister visits Ivory Coast refugee camp

    A UK Government minister today saw for himself how the speed and scale of British aid is supporting the growing number of refugees from the Cote d’Ivoire who have fled the fear of violence in their homeland.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Campaign launched to fill global shortage of midwives

    Nearly 48 million women give birth every year without a midwife or birth attendant according a Save the Children report titled Missing Midwives.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • DFID support for Mother’s Day campaign

    The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and Mumsnet presented Minister Stephen O'Brien with a Mother's Day Card on behalf of mothers and mums-to-be everywhere.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • World TB Day

    In a speech ahead of World TB day today, International Development Minister Stephen O’Brien reiterated the UK’s government’s commitment to the global goal of halving deaths from TB by 2015.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • TB and HIV in Africa

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Protection from malaria in Mozambique

    More than five million people - one million of them children under the age of five - will be protected from malaria in Mozambique with help from the British Government.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • WWF 50th Anniversary: Viva Amazonia

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Research strategy launched to tackle food security crisis

    The UK’s major public funders of national and international food-related research have today published their co-ordinated plan for research to help the world avoid a potential food security crisis.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate

    Speech by Stephen O'Brien to the Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New UK trade initiative to help millions of Africans

    Minister Stephen O’Brien launches Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA), an initiative that will work across East Africa to fund new businesses, develop essential infrastructure and standardise regulation across the region.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Stephen O'Brien: Forest Footprint Disclosure Review 2010

    Speech by Stephen O'Brien on the Forest Footprint Disclosure Review 2010.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New research initiative to improve food security launched

    DFID supports major international research initiative to improve food security for developing countries.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK announces emergency humanitarian assistance for Somalia

    The UK announces support to provide food, water, shelter and urgent medical assistance for hundreds of thousands of Somalis affected by drought, flood and conflict.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • How to Note on Electoral Assistance

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government