Like chicken soup, it wouldn't hurt.
"It would take $135 billion to eradicate global poverty."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
Even more for peacekeeping
"All of our taxpayers are paying roughly 22% of the U.N. budget."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
Details unclear, but policy is broad
Says Donald Trump's abortion rule "puts at risk 15 times more funding and millions more women and families ... than previous similar policies by Republican presidents."
For some, yes, but for other reasons too
"Some countries are contributing (peacekeeping) troops because they're making money off of them."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
A stat plucked from thin air
"We give (foreign aid) to developing countries, and 70 percent of it's stolen off the top."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Gains on AIDS, but a tougher slog with TB
Tuberculosis recently passed "HIV/AIDS as the leading infectious killer globally."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
As fake as it gets
Says Donald Trump warned outgoing Ghana President against last-minute job appointments.
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
More people, not climate change, is the main driver
"Asia ... has less freshwater per capita than any other continent, except Antarctica."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Friday, January 6th, 2017
Call the urban myth department
Says Vicks VapoRub caused a child’s death.
Figures are not verifiable
"An estimated 8 million children worldwide live in orphanages or residential institutions. Shockingly, 80 percent of these children are not orphans."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, January 4th, 2017
Refuted long ago
Say Bill Gates is linked to HPV vaccine related deaths in India.
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
Survey says .. he's right!
"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Behavior will change, but hard to predict disease spread
Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster, . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Friday, October 28th, 2016
Right idea, dicey numbers
"Europe and U.S. households waste 15 times more food than a person in Africa."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Thursday, October 27th, 2016
Better data = better estimates
A World Health Organization report shows "that more people are dying of TB."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Monday, October 24th, 2016
Donation in 2011, meeting request in 2012
"In exchange for five minutes with Bill Clinton, the government of Qatar was going to give $1 million to the Clinton Foundation."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Sunday, October 16th, 2016
Tourists may actually pose a bigger security threat than refugees
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Thursday, October 13th, 2016
Many African nations lack basic info
"Cancer and matters to do with kidney failure kill more people in Kenya today than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined."
Wealth skews up, for sure
"The world's 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Friday, October 7th, 2016
Based on watered-down facts
"Former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) distributed ‘watered-down’ HIV/AIDS drugs to patients in sub-Saharan Africa."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Friday, September 23rd, 2016