The higher intake of livestock products, the report says, is the result of rising population, urbanization and increasing affluence in many parts of the world.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The U.N.Fund for Population Activity says more than 600,000 African women already suffer from obstetric fistula with as many as 30,000 new cases each year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Many observers say those policies have contributed to creating an impoverished, undereducated and isolated population.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

As many as 90 people were reported killed in the air strike and initial reports from the local Afghan population described most of the victims as civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Some want an independent review. And the trial's researchers, like Dr.Nelson Michael, of the Walter Reed Institute of Research in the United States, say it's unclear what difference the findings will make for areas like Africa where rates of HIV/AIDS are much higher than among the test population and where there are many strains of the virus.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20