Sentences with phrase «countries improve access»
There's a need for the world as a whole to support families and governments in high - fertility countries improve access to contraception and education.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, the U.S. government expanded interstate commerce by improving telephone access and highways across the country.
«We agree with you that access to food is an important issue for the country, and we share your goal of improving that access,» Huseman said in the letter.
Increasing obligations to environmental protection will improve Vietnam's access to global value chains and make the country's MSMEs more competitive.
To facilitate China's economic structural upgrading and deepen win - win cooperation with other countries and regions, as well as to strengthen globalization, Xi promised to ease access to the Chinese market, improve the investment environment, enhance IPR protection, and deepen opening - up.
Alibaba said through the investment it expects to get more access to Intime's database and network, which could improve the consumer shopping experience through greater integration with Tmall.com, the country's largest B2C website.
INCHEON, South Korea, 25 October — Sixteen countries in the Asia - Pacific Region can look forward to better access to the most advanced rice technologies to improve their respective rice sector as they declared full support for the regional Rice Action Agenda for ASEAN +3 proposed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
Healthy Newborn Network (HNN)(HNN) is an online resource center and community dedicated to addressing critical knowledge gaps in newborn health by improving access to related resources, data and country information.
Ensuring that pregnant women have access to at least four antenatal visits and improving access to emergency services when needed have been identified as key areas of focus in the fight to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes in the targeted countries.
The TUC expects government to scrap all the levies and taxes on electricity as a means of improving access and making it affordable to all Ghanaians in all parts of the country.
«This vocational training will be targeted in those areas of the country where NHS dentists are in highest demand as part of our commitment to improving nationwide access and improving oral health.»
That notwithstanding, Adams intimated the best way to consolidate the sector and improve on quality in the educational system is by making sure there is easy access in the country.
«I'm proud of my strong record of working with leaders across our district and around the country — Republicans, Democrats and Independents — to deliver real results that help grow our economy, support and protect our veterans and servicemen and women, and improve access to vital services across the North Country,» said Stcountry — Republicans, Democrats and Independents — to deliver real results that help grow our economy, support and protect our veterans and servicemen and women, and improve access to vital services across the North Country,» said StCountry,» said Stefanik.
The Joint Monitoring Programme report, «Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment,» a collaborative effort between the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund, says that the challenge to access improved sanitation is starker in Ghana, «which has slipped even further amongst the worst performing countries, now ranked 7th worst globally.»
Stefanik said she was proud of her strong record of working with district and national leaders, including Republicans, Democrats and independents, to «deliver real results that help grow our economy, support and protect our veterans and servicemen and women, and improve access to vital services across the North Country.»
«I am committed to achieving a 21st century healthcare system that lowers costs, improves access and increases quality for hard working North Country families.»
The efficient synthesis, reported in last week's Journal of the American Chemical Society, could improve access to the oral contraceptives in developing countries.
«Because resource availability varies widely, both among and within countries, we need to adjust strategies to improve access to HPV vaccination everywhere,» said Silvia de Sanjosé, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Expert Panel that developed the guideline and head of the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program at Institut Català d'Oncologia in Barcelona, Spain.
«The increased interdependency of countries, economies, and cultures resulting from tremendous growth in international travel and trade over the last several decades has brought improved access to goods and services, but also a variety of health threats,» said Jendayi Frazer, co-chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report and adjunct senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.
As at previous population conferences in 1974 and 1984, national delegates will spend the best part of ten days trying to reach consensus on a programme of action to improve access to contraception for women in developing countries and Eastern Europe.
This is an exciting prospect for reducing waiting times and improving access to high - quality depression therapy worldwide, and offers hope for countries who are currently struggling with the impact of depression on the health of their peoples and economies.»
Another need that he said he recognizes because of his academic background, first at Harvard Medical School in Boston and later at Dartmouth, is to expand access to and improve education in developing countries.
In the meantime, improving access to health care and social services for refugees in transition countries may also be beneficial.
«In many developing countries, the median life expectancy for hemophilia patients is 11 years due to the lack of access to treatment, but our new oral delivery of factor IX can now overcome these issues and improve the worldwide use of this therapy.»
Access to improved water sources have reduced disease incidence in parts of the world but the use of efficacious vaccines is seen as an important public health tool for countries with a high disease burden.
Expected to gain new or improved energy access through 18 SREP projects being implemented in eight countries and one region — more than the entire population of Liberia
That's why we are continuing to develop partnerships with schools to improve community access to facilities across the country.»
While increasing access to education is still a major challenge in many countries, improving the quality and relevance of education is now receiving more attention than ever, with due emphasis on the importance of values, attitudes and skills that promote mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.
Access to cultural education and opportunities to progress and improve still vary hugely across the country.
School textbooks have been found to play a «critical role» in improving education outcomes in developing countries, but limited access to these learning materials is hampering student progress.
Our new GreatSchools Summary Rating offers expanded information about important aspects of school quality — including student access to advanced courses, student progress information, and equity data to help parents see whether or not all students are being served similarly — that parents across the country can use to support their children's education and take action to improve their local schools.
Futures is a university access programme for sixth - form pupils to improve their chances of attending one of the country's top 25 % selective universities.
Our country was first to provide universal access to free education, to guarantee equal opportunities for all children, to unify (not separate) a diverse population and to improve social conditions.
«The idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world's education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long - term economic gains from improved quality in schooling could be for them,» said OECD education director Andreas Schleicher.
The project aims to improve the quality of and access to Catholic schools across the country.
The number of English learners is growing in our country and ACT is committed to improve access and opportunity for them and all underserved learners.
The Walton Family Foundation, one of the country's most prominent and generous supporters of charter schools, recently established a $ 250 million Building Equity Initiative to improve charter schools» access to facilities.
The good news is, the public may soon have access to more of the data to improve outcomes for all students in the country's second - largest school district.
Improving access to the formal health care sector is a primary public health goal in many low - income countries.
Global roaming in 220 countries Direct access from the lock screen to phone, camera, and text New home screen layout with enhanced launch bar Improved voice input: hold down the search key to dictate emails and text or navigate to an address Face unlock: the device uses the front - facing camera to automatically recognize you when you attempt to unlock Data usage: the new usage center allows you to monitor how much data is consumed each month Android Market for browsing and downloading thousands of free and paid apps Pre-loaded Android apps: Browser, Calculator, Calendar (Google or Corporate), Camera, Clock, Contacts, Email, Gallery, Messaging, Music, News & Weather, Phone, Settings, Video Player, Voice Dialer, Voice Search, YouTube Google applications: Gmail, Google Search, Google Voice Search, Google Latitude, Google Maps, Google Places, Google Talk Google Maps Navigation with spoken turn - by - turn directions showing real - time traffic and 360 ° views of the destination
Or in the Philippines, where public and private initiatives are underway to improve the country's infrastructure and public access to reading material.»
Let's be honest, many people say that they want to improve access to insurance of various kinds in this country.
«By providing business owners and employees with the key information they need to properly serve those who have served our country and those who need our help and understanding, we hope to improve access for those with legitimate service dogs and reduce the possibility of public confrontation.»
A recent addition further improving visitor access is the Electronic Travel Authorisation System, available to visitors of all nationalities who hold valid residence permits or visas from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Schengen countries, or the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
That's because the southern African country — home to Victoria Falls, 20 national parks, and some of the continent's best wildlife — is hitting its stride as a high - end option, thanks to improved access and some impressive lodge openings.
«We now need the government to prioritise through its industrial and aviation strategies the question of how we are going to make best use of the runway capacity we have in this country, by improving access to airports with capacity which are now growing significantly.
I'm not saying that rich countries should demand that Maldives improve access to family planning.
Against this backdrop, energy access in developing countries is the path to improved living standards.
In the context of high levels of poverty and malnutrition, the priority for many African countries is increasing access to energy services and improving the economic welfare of their people.