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Equity, Impact at Odds in AIDS Fight: UCLA Study

Allocating scarce antiretroviral drugs to South African cities would prevent the greatest number of infections, a UCLA AIDS Institute study finds.
Posted: 9/11/2006

African Stories in Online Curriculum Give Meaning to 'Globalization'

16 short tales, and warring commentaries on them, form the core of GlobaLink-Africa, a free, year-long, multimedia curriculum designed for grades 9-12. The polished, feature-rich web site is not only for high schoolers. Others can raid it for music, country data, or a crash course on Africa and the contemporary world.
Posted: 8/14/2006

Center Focusing on Africa, Globalization Launches Multimedia High School Curriculum

GlobaLink-Africa, a free resource for students and teachers, was four years in the making. GRCA celebrated its launch with African and Afro-Brazilian musical and dance performances.
Posted: 5/25/2006

Diary Gives a Face to HIV/AIDS Battle

Woman records experience on radio to bring patients hope, erase stigma attached to illness.
Posted: 5/2/2006

Beyond the Headlines

Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2005: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Posted: 3/8/2006

Want to Promote Development? Fight AIDS

Director of World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program discusses magnitude of a long-term epidemic, strategies for saving lives.
Posted: 3/3/2006

Making Up for Minamata

Japanese literary scholar Keiko Kanai reviews a half-century of social activism on the issue of compensation for the people of Minamata, Japan, a bayside town poisoned by industrial waste in 1955.
Posted: 12/6/2005

Students Take Action to Fight AIDS

The focus of this year's World AIDS Day was to raise awareness locally as well as shed light on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted: 12/2/2005

He cares for tortured and enslaved among immigrants

UCLA Today profiles psychiatrist who works with patients from 25 countries.
Posted: 11/30/2005

Fighting HIV in the Golden Triangle

UCLA researchers find grassroots approaches to curbing the spread of HIV in China and Vietnam.
Posted: 11/18/2005

The Ambassador's Role

The U.S. ambassador to Benin discusses the U.S. agenda, the Beninese ethos, and the trials of his vocation.
Posted: 9/12/2005

"I Was One of the Lucky Ones. I Lost Nothing."

UCLA senior Audrey Desiderato survived the December 26 tsunami while scuba-diving off a Thai island. Here she reflects on the experience and on the immense losses suffered by others.
Posted: 2/12/2005

Tsunami Still Taking Toll: Indonesian Military Combines Relief with Executing Rebels, while Sri Lankan Fishermen Face Loss of Livelihood

UCLA professors say relief efforts hurt by prexisting conditions in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Posted: 2/10/2005

UCLA Holds Briefing on Indian Ocean Tsunami

Expert panel looks at political problems in relief work, priorities in rescue and reconstruction efforts, and what aid workers and NGOs actually do.
Posted: 1/20/2005

People Who Saved the Lives of Others during the Bosnian War

Tito's granddaughter, Svetlana Broz, records the testimonies of people protected by good samaritans in a terrible time.
Posted: 11/15/2004

UCLA Student Engineers Help Build Clinic in Thailand

by Chris Sutton, UCLA Today
Posted: 10/12/2004

Combating TB Is Central to the Fight Against HIV, WHO Doctor Warns

Dr. Marcos Espinal calls for uniting anti-HIV and anti-TB programs to stem the health crisis in Africa, India, China, and the former Soviet Union.
Posted: 10/1/2004

The Dark Side of Globalization: Trafficking & Transborder Crime to, through, and from Eastern Europe

A forum on trafficking of humans and human organs.
Posted: 5/26/2004

Teaching Militarists How to Cover Their Tracks

Harvard legal scholar David Kennedy discusses his recent book, The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism.
Posted: 4/14/2004

Treating the Victims in Liberia's Civil War

Dr. Andrew Schechtman reports on his two tours of duty during the revolt against Charles Taylor.
Posted: 2/9/2004

Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking in Japan

UCLA Anthropologist reports that one injured woman in seven who is hospitalized in Japan is the victim of spousal violence, while 100,000 women a year are imported as sex workers from poor Asian countries.
Posted: 11/17/2003

SARS and Asia: Public Health, Political, Social, and Economic Implications

Having taken the lives and livelihoods of many, SARS reminds the rest of us of how interconnected our lives and economies have become. This Asia Institute-sponsored symposium helped many learn more about SARS and how it is affecting Asia -- and us.
Posted: 6/16/2003

Letter from Beijing: Life in the Face of SARS

UCLA graduate student describes his life in Beijing in the grip of SARS
Posted: 5/22/2003

The Soviet Famine of 1931-33: Politically Motivated or Ecological Disaster?

Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia, presented new information on the famine based on extensive archival data now available on the tragedy of the Soviet countryside, in a talk sponsored by the Center for European & Eurasian Studies on May 5, 2003.
Posted: 5/5/2003

U.S. Needs Partnership with Africa to Stop Spread of AIDS, Former Zambian President Kaunda Tells UCLA Meeting

Kenneth Kaunda, founding president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991, made an impassioned call for international solidarity against the "scourge of HIV/AIDS" February 27.
Posted: 2/28/2003

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