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  • "Access to treatment is access to life"

    How Bonani in Zimbabwe is fighting stigma and discrimination to HIV and AIDS

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  • "If I help one person, to me that is a success"

    How George is helping to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS

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  • World Aids Day 2010: Deputy Prime Minister message

    Successes in preventing the impact of HIV and Aids around the world should inspire governments to do more, the Deputy Prime Minister said.

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

  • David Cameron marks World AIDS Day

    Enormous strides have been made in the fight against HIV and AIDS but more must be done to prevent the transmission of the disease, Prime Minister David Cameron has said

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

  • Climate negotiations begin in Cancun

    The United Nations climate change negotiations get underway in Cancun, Mexico on 29th November, where UK negotiators are striving for progress on issues affecting developed and developing countries.

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

  • River of hope: adapting to a changing climate in Mozambique

    How UK aid is helping farming communities in Mozambique adapt to the effects of climate change

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  • UK to boost fight against cholera in Haiti

    The UK is to help supply more than a thousand trained medical staff and emergency supplies to Haiti to help fight the worsening cholera epidemic and prevent the infection from spreading across the region.

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

  • DFID Research: Providing better access to water in urban settlement

    This project aimed to improve the well-being of the poor in informal urban settlements through cost-effective local water supply services.

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  • Protection for 4.7 million from malaria in Ghana

    The UK government has announced aid to protect nearly 5 million people in Ghana from malaria, including nearly 1 million children under the age of five.

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

  • Lynne Featherstone new violence against women champion

    The coalition government today launched a strategic vision of how they plan to tackle violence against women and girls.

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

  • A generation free of HIV

    How DFID is helping to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies in Zimbabwe

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  • Ministerial statement on Sudan

    International Development Secretary issues written ministerial statement on Sudan

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

  • Ministerial statement on Sudan

    Ministerial statement on Sudan by the Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell.

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

  • Helping HIV positive mothers have HIV negative children

    A DFID funded project is helping to increase the number of HIV negative babies that are born in South Africa

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  • Haiti: the crisis in context

    The devastation wreaked by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti is the third time this Caribbean nation has suffered at the hands of natural disasters in a little over two years.

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

  • Britain to reinforce humanitarian support in Haiti

    Cholera is spreading at an alarming rate across Haiti. One thousand, one hundred people have already died from the disease, thousands of people are infected and the number continues to rise steeply.

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

  • Vital lifeline to British territory to be repaired

    A storm-damaged harbour on the remote British Overseas Territory of Tristan Da Cunha is to undergo emergency repairs in an effort to prevent the island from being cut off from its only access to outside supplies and help.

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

  • UK to help drive low carbon revolution

    Two new public-private partnership projects to generate renewable energy in developing countries, removing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and powering up to four million rural homes in Africa, will …

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

  • British NGOs working in partnership in Peru

    British NGOs supported by DFID have produced a bulletin describing their joint efforts to tackle discrimination and inequality.

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

  • Climate change

    Speech by Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary, at a Climate and Development Knowledge Network event at British Council on 18 November 2010.

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