Now, a week later, Hurricane Matthew brings the people who have endured such hardship to their knees again. I won’t look away, but will hold my gaze on Haiti.
Category: Global Health & Development
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UN General Assembly Elevates Antibiotic Resistance to Crisis Level
What do we do if antibiotics no longer work and are no longer the “miracle drug” we’ve all come to take for granted since at least the 1940s?
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My First Disaster
By: Kathryn Hearn They say you never forget your first disaster. For me, it occurred this summer as I was part of the team from MAP International responding to the floods in Louisiana. Louisianans are no strangers to flooding conditions, but this flooding was unprecedented. Nothing could prepare me for what we were going to […]
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Sir Richard Peto Receives CDC Foundation Hero Award
By Dr. Judy Monroe, president & CEO of the CDC Foundation Did you know that cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart attack and stroke, is the leading cause of death in the world today? Eighty percent of CVD deaths are the result of heart attacks and strokes, with more than three-quarters occurring in low-and middle-income […]
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Join CARE’s Walk in Her Shoes to Help End Poverty for Women and Girls
By Nicole Harris, CARE Media Relations Manager For more than 20 years of our 70-year history, CARE has been headquartered in Atlanta. From our bright orange building at the corner of Piedmont and Ellis St, we help provide women, girls and their families with the information, resources and skills needed to reach their full potential […]
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Helping Special Children Lead a Full Life
Living with a disability isn’t easy. Because I was adopted by an American family, I received excellent health care and today live a full life. But other children aren’t as fortunate.
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Puerto Rico Needs Our Help to Stop Zika
By Dr. Judy Monroe The Zika outbreak continues to rapidly spread across the Caribbean. If Zika were an earthquake, Puerto Rico would be the U.S. epicenter, while Florida and other at-risk states on the mainland would be developing fault lines. To help Puerto Rico bolster its response to Zika, the U.S. Department of Health and […]
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South Sudan: We won’t give up on you
By Fred McCray, CARE Country Director in South Sudan In all my 16 years as a humanitarian aid worker, I have never seen anything like the violence that besieged Juba, South Sudan, last month. It started on a Thursday night with small-arms gunfire that I thought would end quickly. Little did I know it was […]
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Lives at Stake: Seeing Zika Firsthand
By Katie Pace When the members of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, planned their mission trip to the Dominican Republic they hoped to work on a building project and teach Vacation Bible School. But when they were able to take Medical Mission Packs from MAP International, they learned how they could save lives while protecting themselves […]
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Young African Leaders Inspired to Take Lessons in Global Public Health Back Home
A delegation of Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Fellows, representing 22 countries, visited The Task Force for Global Health on July 22 to learn about the organization’s work in Africa and better understand the role global public health plays in society. YALI, which was launched in 2010 by President Barack Obama, seeks to equip the […]
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CDC at 70: Seven Decades of Protecting America and The World
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) celebrated its 70th anniversary. As part of this, former CDC directors gathered to reflect on the agency’ past successes and challenges.
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Yemen: ‘It was raining rockets’
By Holly Frew, Emergency Communications Manager at CARE “It was 7 a.m. and I was having breakfast with my mother-in law and four of my daughters,” said Hammama, recounting what began as a seemingly ordinary day in Yemen. Only things are not ordinary in Yemen, and on that day, extraordinary events changed Hammama’s life forever. […]
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Ebola: Two Years Later
Ebola may seem like a long time ago, but to those that lived through the outbreak, every day is still a fearful step forward that another outbreak is just beyond the horizon.
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Electronic Health Records Can Help Strengthen Public Health Response to Disease Outbreaks
With the broad adoption in recent years of electronic health records (EHRs), public health has the opportunity to take advantage of the availability of electronic health data to improve surveillance.
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Take Three Actions Now to Zap Zika and Prevent Birth Defects
We’re learning more every day about what Zika causes and how to prevent it, but there is still a lot that we don’t know.
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Girls’ Education: The Not-So Secret Weapon to Overcoming Poverty & Injustice
We know that when girls are educated, all of society benefits. Our commitment at the United State of Women will open doors for girls to opportunities for a better future.
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The Modern Mission Trip
Every year, MAP International provides more than 1,300 MAP Medical Mission Packs to volunteers traveling overseas.
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Mobile Technology is Helping to End a Debilitating Infection that Affects the World’s Poor
Scientists hope mobile technology can be leveraged in formal assessments of diseases to give programs a boost as they reach the finish line of elimination.
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Fighting Zika, Empowering Pregnant Women
As CDC works to fight Zika, we greatly appreciate the new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnership that will help empower and educate pregnant women and communities.
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World Humanitarian Summit: Indecision is not an option
Political attention is finally fixed on the greatest challenge of our time: Reversing the trend of people displaced by war or natural disasters and the failure to provide them the assistance they need.
