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...statistically nonsignificant, but the authors say it should be regarded as a launching point for future trials. "This study gives us a more complete picture than we've ever had before," says Gregorio Millett, the study's lead author and a senior behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "The next step is to design better quality studies to see if there is an association we aren't detecting...
...maternal mortality crisis is magnified by the fact that it can be solved. One of the largest contributors to maternal deaths in the developing world is unintended pregnancy. More than 200 million women would like to limit childbearing but have no access to safe, effective birth control. This results in 70 million to 80 million unintended pregnancies every year. Public-health experts estimate that almost half of all maternal deaths could be averted by universal access to contraceptives. The U.S., which should lead the way, has instead placed more roadblocks in the way of poor women who want...
...with the crippling famine in the 1990s was that food distribution, usually dominated by the state, became somewhat privatized. The regime allowed farmers' markets to pop up around the country, and their emergence gave people an alternative source of food. But in 2005 the government tried to reassert its control, broke up the markets and confiscated grain from the farmers, which led to a fall in output. Then in 2007 severe flooding delivered another blow to the agriculture sector; by this year, the country's shortfall of grain was the worst since 2001. The regime's leadership "would rather have...
...Elsewhere, French bank BNP-Paribas said it was taking control of the Belgian and Luxembourg assets of finance and insurance group Fortis, less than a week after it was partially nationalized as part of a $16.4 billion rescue plan. The Dutch government had moved on Friday to nationalize fully the group's Dutch assets, including the bank ABN-Amro. As a consequence of its estimated $21 billion move for Fortis, BNP will be the largest commercial bank in Belgium - and the Belgian government becomes BNP's biggest shareholder...
...with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and today "there's a new generation of Africans who are now saying, 'No - show us what you can deliver,' " says Farhan. "They are getting their message across. You find autocrats are reincarnating themselves as democrats. They are increasingly no longer in control. It's really interesting. There's a new mood sweeping Africa...