Breaking news on Aid and disasters
Freerice 2.0: Feeding Minds While Feeding The Hungry published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Does the word arundinaceous mean long and thin or someone who talks too much? Is an aleconner a beer-taster or a kind of bird? Does scunner mean deep dislike or something you'd find on a boat? Questions like these have stumped millions of people across the globe since 2007, when Freerice.com - the world's only vocabulary game that feeds the hungry - took the web by storm...
Any New Financial Transaction Tax Must Dedicate A Proportion Of Its Funds To Health published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
As Finance Ministers from the European Union gather in Brussels for a formal meeting to discuss the establishment of an EU-wide financial transaction tax, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières calls on them to dedicate a proportion of the receipts from any fundraising mechanism to global health. "The EU is in a unique position to act here," said Dr...
Rite Aid Stores Stock Additional Emergency Supplies To Help Residents Prepare For Hurricane Earl published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
As Hurricane Earl moves up the East Coast, Rite Aid stores along the coast and in anticipated areas of impact have stocked up on supplies to help residents get ready and urge them to plan ahead...
Recent Releases In Global Health published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Lancet Editorial Makes Recommendations For Health-System Strengthening "There is strong consensus in the global health community, among donors, recipient countries, and policy makers, about the need for health system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries," write the authors of a Lancet Comment...
Red Cross Provides Comfort And Shelter From The Storm As Hurricane Earl Moves Up The Atlantic Coast published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
The American Red Cross has provided help and shelter from North Carolina to New England as Hurricane Earl and its winds and rain moved up the Atlantic Coast. Friday night, twelve Red Cross shelters in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island gave nearly 100 people a safe place to ride out the storm as Earl moved past Cape Cod with strong winds and heavy rain...
At U.N. MDG Summit, Ministers Will Propose World Currency Tax To Fund Development Aid published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
"A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at the U.N. [summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)] this month that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development aid, ministers said on Wednesday," Reuters reports (Irish, 9/1). Ministers estimate the proposed "0...
IMF, World Bank Announce Increased Aid Measures For Flood Relief In Pakistan published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
"The IMF and the World Bank have stepped up aid to flood-hit Pakistan to help the country cope with its worst-ever humanitarian disaster," Agence France-Presse reports...
Red Cross Responds To Hurricane Earl Along The Atlantic Coast published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The American Red Cross is responding with help to people affected by the winds, rains and flooding of Hurricane Earl in North Carolina and is ready as the storm moves up the Atlantic Coast. A dozen Red Cross shelters were opened in North Carolina, giving more than 260 a safe place to ride out the storm last night as heavy rain and strong winds passed through the area...
Walgreens Offers Medication Preparedness Advice As Hurricane Earl Approaches The East Coast published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
As East Coast residents and vacationers prepare to evacuate areas in the path of Hurricane Earl, Walgreens would like to provide the following tips for assuring prescription needs are met during the storm. 1. If you evacuate, get to a safe location first and refill your medication at a pharmacy there...
Urgent Call For Blood Donors As Hurricane Approaches published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
New York Blood Center (NYBC), serving more than 20 million people in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and New Jersey, calls upon our communities to please donate blood and platelets, as the East Coast braces for Hurricane Earl. While donations from Rh-negative types are especially crucial, healthy people of all blood types and ethnicities are encouraged to donate...
New Prediction Tool For Oil Spill Spread, Other Contaminants published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Prompted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will spread. He was able to forecast several days in advance that oil from that spill would wash ashore in particular parts of the Gulf of Mexico...
Commitments To Global HIV/AIDS Programs Falter For 'First Time In 15 Years,' UNAIDS Chief Says published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe "said Thursday that global contributions to fighting [HIV/AIDS] are dropping off for the first time in 15 years amid tough economic times," Agence France-Presse reports. "The world economic recession is pushing countries ...
Opinions: Pakistan's Rebuilding; Kenya's Constitution; Development Financing; Africa's Black Market For Malaria Drugs published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT
U.S., Other Countries Must Develop Strategy To Ensure Honest, Transparent Pakistani Rebuilding A Washington Post editorial encouraging the U.S. to generously support Pakistan as it recovers from major flooding, states: the "humanitarian interest is heightened by Pakistan's centrality to America's national security interests...
International Experts Gather To Address Pressing Threats To Food Security published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT
From catastrophic floods in Pakistan that have left millions homeless and hungry to the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake, relief efforts are under way in many parts of the world where disasters have brought food crises along with destruction...
Research Initiatives Collaboration Between SRNL, Chernobyl Laboratory published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT
Under a recently signed agreement, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the Ukraine's International Radioecology Laboratory (IRL) will collaborate on radiation ecology research, including projects in the region impacted by the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 24 years ago...
Red Cross Ready To Respond To Hurricane Earl published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The American Red Cross is on the ground in fourteen states along the East Coast as Hurricane Earl heads toward North Carolina with sustained winds of 140 mph. Red Cross shelters are expected to open this afternoon in North Carolina, and additional shelters are poised to open in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with emergency planning continuing in ten other states along the coast...
APHA Reminds Americans To Plan For Emergencies During National Preparedness Month published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
With flu season approaching, hurricane warnings affecting the East Coast and ongoing threats of other natural or human-made disasters, there is no better time to plan for emergencies...
Together Teens And Neutrogena Raise $200,000 To Benefit Disaster Relief, Education And Environmental Charities published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT
Neutrogena, the #1 dermatologist-recommended skin care brand, announced today that, with the help of teens across America, the Wave for Change campaign achieved its goal of raising $200,000 for communities in need. The donation will be divided among three causes in the US and globally, as determined by teens on Neutrogena's Facebook Page...
Report Finds Some Donated Malaria Drugs Are Being Stolen, Resold In Africa published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Some of the malaria drugs given to Africa by international donors are "being stolen and resold on commercial markets," according to a study to be released Thursday in the journal Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine, the Associated Press reports...
WHO Proposes Creation Of African Public Health Emergency Fund, Strategy To Reduce Alcohol Use In Africa published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
During the 60th session of the Africa Committee of the WHO on Monday, Luis Sambo, regional director of the WHO for Africa, proposed the creation of a public health emergency fund to provide financial support to African countries in emergency situations, Agencia AngolaPress reports (8/30)...
WFP, UNICEF Heads Appeal For More Flood Aid For Pakistan published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
After touring flood-hit areas in Pakistan on Tuesday, the executive directors of UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP) appealed for more flood relief aid, VOA News reports (Maroney, 8/31). WFP head Josette Sheeran "warned during a joint press conference in the capital, Islamabad, that there is a triple threat unfolding as the crisis widens and deepens," U.N. News Centre writes...
Also In Global Health News: China's First HIV Discrimination Case; Congo Mass Rape; S. Sudan Flooding; Kenya's Population Growth; Family Planning published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Court Accepts China's First HIV Discrimination Case, State Media Reports "A municipal court in central China has accepted the country's first lawsuit alleging work discrimination because of HIV status, state media reported Tuesday," the Associated Press reports (8/31)...
Red Cross Urges People To Prepare For Disasters published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
As Hurricane Earl draws closer to the U.S. coast, the American Red Cross today marked the start of National Preparedness Month by urging people across the country to become better prepared. This message comes at a time when the Red Cross and the entire East Coast is making preparations for possible landfall of Hurricane Earl, with the possibility of Tropical Storm Fiona to follow...
Red Cross Preparing For Hurricane Earl From North Carolina To New England published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The American Red Cross is ready to respond to Hurricane Earl from North Carolina to New England, preparing to open shelters and feed those affected by the Category 3 storm that is bearing down on the United States, bringing heavy rains and sustained winds blowing at 125 mph...
Americans Urged To Prepare For Disasters, Include Animals In Their Plans published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), a proud participant in the seventh annual National Preparedness Month sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Ready Campaign, encourages Americans to take action now to prepare for emergencies...
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