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  1. Ngare and her family wait to receive their relief food. Plan / Atem Dut

    Stories of struggling families emerge as Plan steps up relief in South Sudan

    27 January 2012 16:25 GMT | Comments ( 0 )

    Atem Dut | Aid Worker Diaries

    Plan communication officer in South Sudan meets families caught up in inter-communal clashes.

  2. Aliyatu Abdulai (R), a Sierra Leonean Maternal and Child Health Aide, administers a vaccine to a child at a village of Sembehun, outside the town of Bo in the southeast region of the West African country, May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Simon Akam

    Partnerships raise $38 million for child immunisation - GAVI

    27 January 2012 12:06 GMT | Comments ( 0 )

    Seth Berkley | Health and Science

    The British government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation agreed to match corporate contributions to the GAVI Alliance

  3. A child looks up while walking past the symbol of a ribbon to mark World Aids Day in Kathmandu November 30, 2011. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

    Dispatch from Davos – The Global Fund’s 10-year journey

    26 January 2012 10:55 GMT | Comments ( 0 )

    Natasha F. Bilimoria | Health and Science

    At Davos, I can’t help but think of a different scene playing out at Global-Fund supported clinics, writes Natasha F ...

  4. People gesture at a passing aid truck as they sit on a barrier protecting a factory from floods in Thailand’s Pathum Thani province, Oct. 14, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

    An aid system struggling to be ready, stay relevant

    26 January 2012 10:15 GMT | Comments ( 0 )

    Abby Stoddard | AlertNet AidWatch

    The humanitarian system is under pressure to expand into ever-wider areas of activity, but lacks the means to do so

  5. Survivors of the Haiti earthquake unload food donated by the World Food Programme from helicopters in Leogane, Apr. 12, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix Evens

    The global aid system: better the devil we know?

    26 January 2012 10:00 GMT | Comments ( 0 )

    Megan Rowling | AlertNet AidWatch

    AlertNet survey shows aid groups want to cut U.N. costs and bureaucracy, but don't see a big bang solution

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