The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a human and development disaster [ 1].
Three recent global agreements have been established to facilitate the implementation of global-level responsibilities to deal with disaster risk reduction (DRR), human development, and climate change adaptation (CCA) respectively.
Developed through broad consultations with many partners from government and civil society, the Partnership Framework supports Moldova's priorities and development challenges in three main areas: (1) democratic governance, justice, equality and human rights; (2) human development and social inclusion; and (3) environment, climate change and disaster risk management.
More investment in jobs and social security, and the introduction of laws that offer vulnerable people greater protection, are required to halt the slowing of human development caused by income inequality, fluctuations in food prices, natural disasters and conflict.
But the story of human development is one of becoming better at coping with them.Death by disaster is in many ways a symptom of economic underdevelopment: witness the very different consequences of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.
This is justified when there is significant exposure to disasters, with significant proportions of economic activity, rural development, poverty eradication, human development, and livelihoods are associated with and dependent on agriculture.
Deepening poverty and inequity remain immense obstacles to human development, including the burden of external debt; gender discrimination and violence, environmental degradation, terrorism, and natural disasters.
But for Sally Dear, an adjunct lecturer in human development at the State University at Binghamton, there's also a maelstrom hovering in the continuing investigation into the disaster that the school's basketball program has become.
