Protecting endangered species helps reduce poverty
Saving endangered species like pandas, gorillas and tigers helps reduce poverty and improve the lives of local communities, according to a new World Wildlife Fund report. Now as the eighth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity opens today in Curitiba, Brazil, WWF urges the CBD and member governments to integrate species conservation work into efforts to alleviate pov...Study shows that genes can protect kids against poverty
MADISON - For children growing up poor, money isn't the only solution to overcoming the challenges of poverty. According to a new study, the genes and warm support received from parents also can buffer these children against many of the cognitive and behavioral problems for which poverty puts them at risk. The findings are published in the May issue of the journal Child Development....Women Growing Up In Poverty At Increased Risk Of Heart Disease
Women with disadvantaged childhoods are more likely to have a heart problem later in life compared to men, says a study. Researchers led by Jenifer Hamil-Luker, a post-doctoral fellow in sociology at Duke University, looked at data of nearly 10,000 people // born between 1931 and 1941, reports public service newswire AScribe. The data includes information on the participant...Many Indian Doctors Live In Poverty
Many doctors of Indian origin live in a state of penury in the UK, depending upon free food given at temples. Very few of them even have decent // lodgings. This is the offshoot of an appeal made by the NHS for more doctors to serve in the country in 2001, which had resulted in many doctors from third world countries migrating to the UK. Most of them are faced with discrimination an...Poverty Claims Valuable Lives Of Children In Orissa
The infant mortality rate in Orissa would continue to soar if steps are not taken to improve the poverty level. Suni Naik’s family is still trying to recover after losing their third child, which died within a few hours following delivery. // Speaking at Talchampei village in tribal-dominated Keonjhar district, Naik said: "Two of my kids died last year. They suffered from fever. I took...Africa Suffers Tuberculosis as a Fallout of HIV/AIDS and Poverty
Nairobi - The WHO has revealed that Africa's TB crisis has its origin in HIV/AIDS, weak health systems and poverty. Statistics show that//, of the two million people who die from TB every year, 1.5 million are Africans. Winfred Nzioka, a nurse at the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) clinic in the Kenyan slum, revealed that most of the patients who succumbed to TB were a...Children in Poverty at Risk of Mental Health Problems
The British Medical Association (BMA) has claimed that children who grow up in poverty or other disadvantages are prone to develop mental health problems //. A recent report has revealed that children coming from disadvantaged backgrounds or suffer from several mental health-related problems, such as unstable tempers, insomnia and obsessive and depressive disorders. Those br...