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Be a Friend to Pollinators … … Animal pollinators are essential to reproduction for 35% of the world’s food crops, but they are disappearing. This animation explains what individuals can do to help pollinators in their own communities, and describes the varieties of pollinators. ### About United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Mission Statement The United States […]
Open for Questions: The Beginning of the End of AIDS … … Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Development and Democracy at the White House, and Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, will be taking questions on the global AIDS epidemic and what the Obama Administration is doing to […]
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Believe it. Do it. … … The public service announcement “Believe it. Do it.”, which was shown at the 2011 UN High Level Meeting on AIDS, helped launch a Global Plan that will make significant strides towards eliminating new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive. ### > United Nations (UN). […]
Syria: Red Crescent volunteers on total alert … … Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers have been working around the clock every day since the beginning of the events 8 months ago. In the past, they used to carry out simple activities like transporting sick people. Today, they are faced with highly demanding tasks in dangerous […]
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Firefighter Tracker … … Firefighters risk their lives every time they run into a burning building. But, new technology may soon be watching their backs, no matter how far they venture into the flames and smoke. With support from the National Science Foundation, TRX systems is developing a new sensor system that can track firefighters […]
Remarks by the President on World AIDS Day … President Obama on World AIDS Day The President announced new commitments to fight AIDS in the US at the “The Beginning of the End” event sponsored by the ONE and (Red) campaigns. December 1, 2011. … George Washington University Washington, D.C. December 01, 2011 10:27 A.M. […]
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From the Archives: President Obama Says, “Get Tested” … President Obama on National HIV Testing Day In commemoration of the 14th Anniversary of National HIV Testing Day, the President and First Lady release a special video. June 26, 2009. … Today is World AIDS Day. In the United States, roughly 1.2 million Americans are living […]
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Celebrate Human Rights … … “Celebrate Human Rights! This video is part of the UN Human Rights Office social media campaign – a celebration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. Join us in celebrating Human Rights: www.celebratehumanrights.org www.facebook.com/unitednationshumanrights http://twitter.com/unrightswire Human Rights Day is marked annually on 10 […]
Relief for stem cell transplant patients Graft-versus-host disease treatment results in improvement Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “More than half of patients who successfully undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplants [in which the blood-making tissue in the bone marrow is wiped out with chemotherapy and replaced with blood-forming stem cells from a donor] develop chronic GVHD,” says the […]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis: Thrilling Two Decades for the Disease Fifteen years ago, a mere 20 percent pullback in arthritic activity was celebrated as remarkable improvement. Fast-forward to 2011, and now, armed with a host of innovative medicines (the latest are “oral molecules”) and clearly defined outcome measures, rheumatologists are setting much more aggressive goals: To spot rheumatoid arthritis […]
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