Two Possible Futures: Faith Action to End AIDS
September 5, 2019
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Location: Berkley Center Third Floor Conference Room Map
Through today’s decisions and actions, we are making a choice between two futures for the HIV and AIDS epidemic: A remarkable, decades-long global effort has given us the capability to end AIDS as a public health threat.
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Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis has now surpassed AIDS as the world’s leading infectious cause of death, and the so-called XDR strain is the ultimate in lethality. It is resistant to all four families of antibiotics typically used to fight the disease…
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A Cure for Ebola? Two New Treatments Prove Highly Effective in Congo
In a development that transforms the fight against Ebola, two experimental treatments are working so well that they will now be offered to all patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists announced on Monday.
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World Relief Calls Americans to Partner in Response to Ebola's Public Health Emergency Status in the Democratic Republic of Congo
BALTIMORE, Md. – Earlier this month, the World Health Organization formally declared the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) after the first case was diagnosed in Goma, at the border of Rwanda.
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Wiping Out Hunger in Africa Could Cost Just $5bn. What are we waiting for?
Billions are spent on humanitarian aid, yet nearly 60 million children across Africa go to bed hungry….
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Joint Statement by the Principals of FAO, WHO, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and UN OCHA
Every year, the United Nations provides 10 million children suffering from acute malnutrition (“wasting”) with services they need to recover, including nutrition treatment, treatment of infections such as diarrheal diseases, hygiene and sanitation services, and access to clean water and the nutritious diets needed for healthy growth…
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Evangelical Christian Church is becoming more diverse
Evangelical Christians are not just a voting bloc. And they're not all white, conservative and Republicans. One in four Americans identifies as evangelical, and the make-up of the church is becoming increasingly diverse.
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Is it time to take 'more of a gamble' to scale nutrition interventions?
With 10 years left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the world is not on track to meet Goal 2 of ending hunger and improving nutrition.
The international community is mobilizing to try to meet the goal, but different groups working on the issue do not always have the same approach…
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1 in 10 Children Missed Life-Saving Vaccines in 2018
Since 2010, vaccination coverage has stalled globally at approximately 86% for three doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis and one dose of the measles vaccine. To avoid outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, WHO stated that 95% coverage is needed across communities, countries and the globe…
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On Mission to Mukinge
Dr. Paul Osteen is a general and vascular surgeon from Houston, Texas, who has served 24 times with World Medical Mission. He recently returned from his sixth service trip to Mukinge Hospital in Zambia.
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Kenya is set to suffer from worsening food shortages and water scarcity
Kenya is likely to suffer from worsening food shortages and water scarcity as the rainy season fails, its meteorological department said on Tuesday.
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Chronic Malnutrition stunts Asia's rising-star economies
Malti Bhogade's twin daughters died soon after they were born.
Bhogade, a 32-year old farm laborer working 150 km north of India's financial capital Mumbai, delivered her babies prematurely in January. One died almost instantly due to malnutrition…
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The valley of the shadow of death | A choice between 2 futures with Mark Lagon
Are you in the valley of the shadow of death right now? Have you walked the valley with someone else and now need to find the way back out? Carmen talks candidly about the application of the 23rd Psalm to the walk of the faith today.
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Funding for global nutrition needs to be raised
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to travel to Washington D.C. to meet with our nation’s leaders, both in the White House and in the Senate.
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The Cost of Not Breastfeeding
Globally, nearly 600,000 children and nearly 100,000 women die each year due to inadequate breastfeeding.
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Global Nutrition Is the Cornerstone of Global Health
We know how and when to address malnutrition. We just need the political will to make it happen. Advocacy from the faith sector, particularly from the politically right-of-center voter, is now more crucial than ever.
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OPINION: It's time to celebrate family farming
Family farmers in developing countries have enormous potential, but lack access to resources and services
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Ghana is adopting a data-driven approach to fighting poverty
ACCRA, Ghana — On a blistering hot day last week, a team of Ghanaians clambered out of vans into Agbogbloshie, a notoriously poor neighborhood in the capital city of Accra.
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Commentary: Make a difference for world hunger here in Charleston
While it’s not something that gets a lot of attention here in South Carolina, I’d like to encourage readers to consider the critical importance of food security and global nutrition in the developing world, and the simple ways we can make a difference from here in Charleston.
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Amid Ebola outbreak in Congo, Brantly returning to Africa with ‘compassion despite fear’
Christians are called to 'extreme love and not to self-preservation,' Brantly tells The Christian Chronicle.
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