Archive for the ‘Aid / Disasters’ Category
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
One of the main obstacles towards progress in the developing world is the litany of tropical diseases affecting residents that have not been seriously addressed by the public health community. This is the message of a new book, Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases, published by ASM Press."Some of the worst tropical ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Following the killing of three staff members on January 28, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has decided to close its project in the southern city of Kismayo, Somalia. Although activities in Kismayo will end, MSF remains committed to providing medical care to the Somali people, ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
The British Red Cross is looking for thrill seekers to take part in their two most challenging events of 2008! We have places available for both the BUPA Great North Run on Sunday 5 October and the Yorkshire 1-2-3 Peak Challenge on Saturday 12 July. Places are being allocated on ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
PAHEF is pleased to join Harvard University's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation as a partner in the bi-annual conference Frontiers of Innovation: 20 Years of Innovation in Government held in Cambridge March 31st through. On Monday evening, the executive director of the Pan American Health and ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
President George Bush had initially proposed doubling the program to fight AIDS in Africa and other parts of the world to $30 billion. Then the House, led by Democrats, raised it to $50 billion. The House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill which will more than triple spending ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation this week launched a fund to provide HIV-positive people in the country with financial assistance for health and travel costs, the NZPA/New Zealand Herald reports. The Wellness Fund is a needs-based service that was established after the foundation conducted nationwide consultations with HIV/AIDS-affected people. ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Thanks to a bipartisan compromise brokered by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), the House voted overwhelmingly to expand the landmark U.S. effort to combat HIV/AIDS worldwide that, during the past five years, has saved millions of lives. Despite efforts by some ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The humanitarian community in Sudan is raising its voice against intolerable attacks that are putting the humanitarian operation and the welfare of the people of Darfur in jeopardy. Attacks against those implementing humanitarian activities are never justified. Such incidents in Darfur have reached an unprecedented level. Since the start ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that Somalia is sinking deeper into an abyss of suffering with hundreds of thousands of women and children uprooted by fighting while a lack of security is preventing full humanitarian access to some areas. ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Hands On Disaster Response (HODR), a volunteer-driven 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, recently announced the extension of Project Rayenda, their volunteer project in Rayenda, Bangladesh to help those devastated by Cyclone Sidr. This disaster, the most significant in Bangladesh in over 15 years, hit the coastline November 15, ...
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