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1. Washington Share of Cost, Washington Post Examines Haiti Rebuilding Challenges Washington Share of Cost, Washington Post Examines Haiti Rebuilding Challenges: The Washington Post examines the international effort to rebuild Haiti after the January 12 earthquake. “U.S. lawmakers and international aid officials have expressed mounting concern about the slow recovery of the hemisphere’s poorest country … Despite ambitious plans to ‘build back better,’ as U.N. and […]...
2. Share of Cost: Stiff Sediments Made 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Deadliest In History An international team of geoscientists has discovered an unusual geological formation that helps explain how an undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in December 2004 spawned the deadliest tsunami in recorded history....
3. Organizations Highlight Plight Of HIV-Positive Haitians, Call For Donors To Support ‘Whole Of Society’ Health System Strengthening Organizations attending the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 highlighted the plight of HIV-positive earthquake survivors in Haiti who are “still waiting for aid promised to them before” the quake as rebuilding efforts slowly move along, Agence France-Presse reports. AFP notes the sentiments of some of the organizations’ representatives…...
4. ‘Seek, Test, Treat And Retain’ – New Global Report Launched By The International AIDS Society Recommends A New Paradigm For Treating IDU’s Against the backdrop of some of the globe’s fastest growing HIV epidemics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a report launched at the XVIII International AIDS conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna makes the case for a new model for scaling up treatment and prevention of HIV amongst Injecting Drug Users (IDUs)…...
5. Share of Cost, Two Talks With Teens Leads To Less Marijuana Use For At Least A Year Marijuana is the most prevalent illicit drug used by teenagers and adults around the world. Nearly a third of high school students in the United States report smoking it, and most high schoolers say they have access to the drug. To many people, smoking pot is no big deal. They cite reasons such as: “it […]...
6. Leading Researchers To Share New Treatments At Fragile X International Conference Accelerated research findings leading to potentially significant new treatments for fragile X syndrome (FXS) will be presented to nearly 1,000 family members and professionals at the 12th International Fragile X Conference in Dearborn July 21-25…...
7. FBI Reports on Hate Crimes against People with Disabilities, Others The FBI has released 2009 statistics showing that 6,604 criminal incidents were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin or physical or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2009 includes data from hate crime reports submitted by law enforcement agencies throughout the nation.  The data show that 74 individuals were targets because […]...
8. AIDS 2010 Studies, Releases: Criminalization, Discrimination Of High-Risk Groups; Test-And-Treat; UNAIDS Launches HIV Prevention Commission The criminalization of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people in Asia is holding back efforts to contain HIV/AIDS in the region, according to a report presented Wednesday by the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) and Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health at the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, VOA News reports....
9. 2011 PacificRim International Conference on Disabilities – April 18 – 19, 2011 The 2011 International PacificRim Conference, Humanity: Advancing Inclusion, Equality and Diversity will be held April 18-19, 2011 in Honolulu, HI. This event is widely recognized over the past 25 years as one of the most diverse gatherings in the world. It features workshops, exhibitors and a symposium that will cover special education and inclusion. Call for Proposals […]...
10. Michigan Share of Cost, National RN Relief Group Teams Up With Navy For Medical Mission To Haiti Michigan Share of Cost, National RN Relief Group Teams Up With Navy For Medical Mission To Haiti: The first team of registered nurse volunteers from California, Michigan, and Washington State will depart for Haiti Wednesday morning with the Department of Defense’s Continuing Promise, National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses, announced. […]...
11. Public Reporting On Hospital Process Improvements Is Linked To Better Patient Outcomes The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publicly reports so-called process performance at all U.S. hospitals, such as whether certain recommended treatments are given to specific types of patients. We examined whether hospital performance on key process indicators improved during the three years since this reporting began. We also studied whether or not these changes […]...
12. Share of Cost, Medi-Cal Share of Cost, Bristol-Myers Squibb And ADAP Crisis Task Force Announce Enhanced, Multi-year Support For AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) In The United StatesU.S. Increases Pakistan Flood Aid Contribution; Sen. Kerry To Visit Flood-Hit Pakistan “The State Department said Thursday that the U.S. financial commitment to Pakistan flood relief has reached $76 million,” VOA News reports (Gollust, 8/12). “On assistance to Pakistan, to date, approximately $76 million in assistance has been provided … by the U.S....