Prevention
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The children that had previously not been reached with polio vaccines live in communities with little or no access to routine immunization, maternal healthcare, nutritional supplements, deworming, or malaria
prevention.
But while more resources are no doubt needed, they must be accompanied by sound strategies that engage communities, guide programming, and scale up
prevention
and care.
Considerable amounts of aid are directed toward “fragile states” to help stop or prevent civil war, but only 0.27% of international aid goes to projects with a “crime prevention” component.
Arogya Parivar raises general public awareness of health issues by training educators to teach disease
prevention
and treatment in villages, helping some 2.5 million rural inhabitants in 2012 alone.
And an unprecedented amount of funds has been invested in HIV treatment and
prevention.
UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation estimate that in 2010 donors gave $6.9 billion for HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support – down 10% from 2009.
But these measures were merely palliative; the next MFF should be much more ambitious in identifying the role of the EU budget in the management and
prevention
of crises.
For Sherman, competition was the
prevention
of excessive power.
The protection of competition was the
prevention
of abusive power structures within civil society.
A comprehensive
prevention
program providing free or cheap condoms and information about safe sex to the regions worst affected by HIV/AIDS would cost $27 billion and save more than 28 million lives.
This finding confirmed the concept of “treatment as prevention.”
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan put it simply: “No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower infant and maternal mortality, improve nutrition, promote health, including the
prevention
of HIV/AIDS, and increase the chances of education for the next generation.
Talks on how to avoid a crisis involving Pakistan – and how to manage one should
prevention
fail – are no less urgent.
As part of my work, I often edit educational materials for an NGO working on HIV
prevention.
This is why
prevention
or at least a postponement of NATO expansion is so important.
African governments should give priority to investments in technical education and HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support programs.
The Court upheld the government’s authority to curtail privacy rights for a compelling reason, such as national security, crime prevention, or social welfare; but the action must be reasonable and proportional to the end sought.More worrying is that Aadhaar is not secure.
The Court upheld the government’s authority to curtail privacy rights for a compelling reason, such as national security, crime prevention, or social welfare; but the action must be reasonable and proportional to the end sought.
Most global poverty-reduction efforts rely on “top-down” solutions – development-aid flows from rich to poor countries – that largely focus on education, food security, and disease management and
prevention.
The Framework can help them to understand their exposure and vulnerability in today’s hazardous world, and to set priorities for action in developing a culture of
prevention.
National treasuries, finance ministries, and anti-corruption agencies need to strengthen their efforts to cooperate on prevention, detection, and enforcement.
Critics also claim that missile defense will not work against incoming warheads surrounded by decoys, that it will be terribly expensive and that rogue-state proliferation can be better addressed through
prevention
(using diplomacy and export controls) and deterrence.
Plans with names like “Strong Hand” in El Salvador, “The Broom” in Guatemala, and “Blue Liberty” in Honduras have been created to deal with the problem, but all ignore prevention, overlook the social roots of the phenomena, and concentrate on applying force.
At the end of the summit of Central American presidents, El Salvador’s President Antonio Saca talked about a regional
prevention
plan.
Not only does effective crisis
prevention
require overhauling our financial institutions through creative application of the principles of good finance; it also requires that politicians and their constituents have a shared understanding of these principles.
One of our discussants, Joseph Tracy of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (and co-author of Housing Partnerships), put the problem succinctly: “Firefighting is more glamorous than fire prevention.”
President Barack Obama will likely raise issues such as the bilateral trade imbalance, the Chinese government’s manipulation of the renminbi’s exchange rate,
prevention
of nuclear proliferation, recent tension on the Korean peninsula, international cooperation on climate change, and China’s poor human rights record.
What this calls for, above all, is
prevention
of nuclear proliferation (beginning with Iran), whether through diplomacy and sanctions, or, if need be, through sabotage and military attacks.
What needs to be done also has been well known since 20 years ago, when a nonpartisan report by a cross-party group of big-city mayors unanimously agreed on measures to be taken: efficient repression, highly developed social prevention, a permanent local police presence, and a renewed effort at reintegrating delinquents.
And it has testified to the good sense of those who have been arguing for years, in a variety of Asian and wider global contexts, that maritime search, rescue, and disaster relief is an ideal place to start in creating confidence building mechanisms aimed at laying the foundations for conflict
prevention
and resolution.
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