Richard Feachem, director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said that the fund will run out of money by the middle of next year unless it receives new donations, the Boston Globe reports. The fund has received $2.1 billion in pledges but has collected only $500 million.

In this overview of world capitalism, William K. Tabb confronts the prevailing view of globalization as the steamroller against which even the most powerful nations are helpless. Tabb describes how institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation have focused on neoliberal goals, devising regulatory frameworks to provide greater freedom and opportunity for capital at the expense of social need.

Indian group Paharpur will bid a second time for the Komatiland forests only if its concerns around good governance and fair play in the bidding process are addressed, it says.

The global fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria has appointed private auditors to oversee its projects in Asia and Africa in an attempt to cut corruption and inefficiency.

A report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) calls for a major increase in the international response to dealing with the three major killers of HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. The report argues that the tools to address the diseases are available, but are inequitably distributed and says the benefits of fighting the diseases in the long term far outweigh the costs of their control.

Harmbee Holdings and Dimension Data have pledged R28 million for a state–of–the–art school. The school’s plight caught the eye of the minister of Social Development and other MPs when they visited the area three years ago.

Development finance ministers have backtracked on support promised for the new Education for All Action Plan programme at the 2002 IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Since the promises were made in April donors have failed to deliver additional financing, implementation has slipped and the financing framework has still not been finalised, says a report from the Global Campaign for Education.

At a time when roughly 14,000 people become infected with HIV every day the United States is falling behind on policy and funding, while the donor community and countries most affected by the epidemic are failing to adequately support programs that promote and distribute male and female condoms, says a report from Population Action International.

A review paper on NGO Participation in the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria undertaken by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance examines and provides recommendations on issues relating to problems of access to information by participating NGOs, the need for NGO involvement to mean more than simply consultation, a need for improvements in NGO networks and accountability and the role of NGOs as recipients in fund disbursement.

The UN refugee agency has co-published a handbook on refugee resettlement, addressing issues like initial reception, education and employment while incorporating the experiences of resettled refugees.

The Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM) in Ghana need your support. Intense research in areas including the operational area of Ghana Australian Goldfields, GAG, found massive human rights violations, e.g. forced evictions, contamination of water bodies for local consumption and the destruction of villages. The gold mining company GAG has recently been bought by Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, and is financially supported through credits of an international consortium which consists of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the German Development and Investment Company (DEG), the Dutch bank FMO and the Swedish bank SEB. The IFC is playing a leading role and has a 20% equity stake in GAG. Write to the IFC and tell them that you are aware of the situation and that you expect a thorough investigation and for the human rights violations to stop.

The Kenya Wildlife Service and conservation organisations have expressed urgent concern about elephant poaching and illegal ivory trade following the seizure in Shanghai, China of a 3.6 ton shipment of ivory from Kenya. ECOTERRA NEWS interviewed Dr. Paula Kahumbu, CITES co-ordinator, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

This new Global Health Council report is the first-ever global analysis of the impact of unintended pregnancies on maternal deaths in developing countries. The report details more than 300 million unintended pregnancies and the resulting deaths of nearly 700,000 women between 1995 and 2000, most of which could have been prevented had basic reproductive health services been made available to these women.

Six months after the Second World Assembly on Ageing agreed a new International Plan of Action, HelpAge International has launched a long-term programme to involve older people in citizen monitoring, to track how governments, international bodies and local authorities are acting on the commitments they made.

The International Monetary Fund's policy-making panel has directed the institution to develop a "concrete proposal" that will allow heavily indebted countries to, in effect, declare bankruptcy.

This new and first in the series of the AFRODAD Reality of Aid publications, authored by African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) drawn from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda, is a classic edition that offers answers to fundamental questions of the whole Aid regime. It gives proposals pointing to a fresh start on aid in terms of what conditions the recipient governments should adopt for such a start.

Effective treatment of curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is one of the few strategies available to reduce the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Many people with STIs seek treatment from private practitioners. Why are patients turning to the private sector for help? Do they receive adequate care?

The World Bank will assist the Angolan government in the resettlement of 1,500,000 people in their respective areas of origin, the government-owned news agency reports.

The World Bank and IMF's Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative has a stated aim of providing a 'lasting exit' to the debt problems of the poorest countries - but a new report suggests it is doing anything but. The latest draft 'Status of Implementation Report' for the HIPC initiative, due to be released in time for the 2002 Annual Meetings of the Bank and Fund, shows that of the 19 countries originally expected to reach completion point by the end of this year, at least 11, or 60 percent, will fail to do so and that even according to the narrow definitions of the World Bank and IMF, HIPC only appears to be working for between seven and 10 countries out of the 42 included within the initiative.

Kenya's NGO forum, led by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, has called on African Elephant Range States to oppose the reopening of the ivory trade at the 12th Conference of Parties for Convention on the International in Endangered Species in November in Santiago, Chile.