Tsunami Tragedy One Year Later: Time to Reflect and Recommit
In mid-November, Indonesia activated two specialized buoys and an undersea pressure sensor as part of a five-year plan to create a comprehensive tsunami warning system. Nearly... (full article)
AIDS Pandemic Remains One of CARE's Priorities
On December 1, World AIDS Day, more than 8,000 people will die from AIDS-related causes. With 40 million people across the globe living with HIV/AIDS and less than 10 percent ... (full article)
CARE Promotes Empowering People to fight AIDS
As World AIDS Day approaches, CARE calls upon governments and civil society groups to ensure that the people most affected by AIDS obtain the support they need and play a lead... (full article)
Coming of Age in the Time of AIDS
Mamta Varma is 20 years old, beautiful, unmarried and a bit shy. The brown-eyed woman with long dark hair laughs easily, but hides her beaming smile behind her hand. In front ... (full article)
A Village Turns its Back
For Kwizera Ildephone, World AIDS Day is a day like any day. He faces hard hours at work in the fields, trying to grow what he can for his younger siblings. At just 17 years o... (full article)
Who Will Heal the Healer?
World AIDS Day, for those of us who work fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa, is more than an abstract commemoration. It is a stark reminder of the struggles we face as professionals,... (full article)
International Community Must Wake Up to Ongoing Food Crisis Warning Signs in Niger
The international community is in danger of ignoring the warning signs in Niger again this year, exactly 12 months after this year's food crisis was first highlighted by aid a... (full article)
Last Chance to Avert Second Wave of Deaths in Pakistan
On the eve of the International Donors Conference in Islamabad, six of the largest international humanitarian aid organizations responding to the October earthquake in Pakista... (full article)
CARE Urges Senate to Pass House Version of Clean Water Bill
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CARE Explores Alternatives to Tents for Quake Survivors
Facing damaged, unsafe houses and a shortage of winterized tents, earthquake survivors in remote mountainous areas need alternatives for shelter. CARE’s Bikram Chand Thakuri... (full article)
Half Way Home
At 85 years old, Snaghar Jan is sitting on a bed in a tent hospital with her leg in a plaster cast. She has no idea of where she will go when she is released from the hospital... (full article)
CARE Warns Against the Dangers of Winter in Pakistan's Earthquake Zone
Isolated mountain villages in Pakistan’s earthquake-ravaged North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) face an agonizing choice: abandon their homes and livelihoods to move to emer... (full article)
Earthquake Survivors Seeking Winter Clothes
“I lost everything — my home, all my belongings. ‘Zalzala’ [the earthquake] took away everything. I have only these clothes that I am wearing. I do not have warm cloth... (full article)
Fighting to Survive
It was midday when I reached Nuri, a village in the Balakot District. More than two weeks since the earthquake, there was still no road to reach the village except for a steep... (full article)
Danger From Pakistan's Earthquake is Not Over
The worst earthquake in Pakistan’s history has killed an estimated 73,000 people, wounded another 69,000 and spread devastation over nearly 30,000 square kilometers, as well... (full article)
CARE Urges Congress and Administration To Provide More Funds For Bird Flu Prevention
CARE is urging the U.S. Congress and the Bush administration to provide more funding to fight bird flu at its source, to help prevent its spread. Through programs aimed at pre... (full article)
Resuming Schooling Key to Children’s Recovery from Disaster
Getting children back to school as quickly as possible is vital to ensuring their well-being after a catastrophe such as the deadly earthquake in South Asia or the devastation... (full article)
CARE Assists Survivors as Disasters Strike El Salvador and Guatemala
Hundreds of landslides and widespread flooding due to heavy rains from Hurricane Stan have killed nearly 200 people in El Salvador and Guatemala and driven more than 100,000 p... (full article)
