- Hands On Disaster Response Extends Cyclone Relief Project By : Health News
Hands On Disaster Response (HODR), a volunteer-driven 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, recently announced the extension of Project Rayenda...... - UNICEF-Dubai Cares Partnership Benefits Schoolchildren In Djibouti By : Health News
UNICEF and Dubai Cares announced today the launch of new education programmes in Djibouti that will help accelerate access to education for children and promote gender equality in the country. - UNICEF Executive Director Announces US19 Million Dollars In Funding For Liberia By : Health News
During her first visit to Liberia, UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman announced that US$17 million will become available through a new public/private partnership which will help rebuild Liberia's primary education system. - New York Strengthens Emergency Preparedness With Cardinal Health Ventilators By : Health News
Cardinal Health, a global provider of products and services that improve the safety and productivity of health care, announced an order by the New York Department of Health for its public health preparedness program. - K-State Trauma Researcher Says Being Prepared, Taking Action Are Vital In Preventing By : Health News
Be aware, be prepared and take action.
That's the advice from a Kansas State University trauma expert on preventing tragedies like the one recently at Northern Illinois University. - U.S. Provides 1.2 Million Dollars For India's Flood Victims By : Health News
U. S. Charge d'Affaires, Steven J. White, announced that the United States will provide an additional $1.2 million (Rs. 4.7 crores) for victims of last year's floods in Bihar. - Nickelodeon And UNICEF Launch A New Initiative Aimed At Motivating Children In Latin America By : Health News
UNICEF and Nickelodeon Latin America announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at bringing about positive changes in the daily lives of children throughout Latin America. - Homeland War Linked To Increased Risk Of Death From Weapons-Related Injuries For Croatian Children By : Health News
A recent article in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine finds that the 1991 to 1995 Homeland War in Croatia led to an increase in weapon-related deaths of children during and five years after the end of the war. - Tornado Scarred States Receive American Red Cross Health Services By : Health News
Following one of the largest series of tornadoes in decades, many people across the south are beginning the long process toward recovery. - Massive American Red Cross Tornado Relief Effort Spans Five States By : Health News
Across five southern states and in communities large and small, Red Cross people and supplies are flowing in to provide care to those affected by the devastating tornadoes which began hitting February 5. - Responding Rapidly And Efficiently To Disasters By : Health News
A rapid, well organized response is extremely important when dealing with catastrophic events. - Responding Rapidly And Efficiently To Disasters By : Health News
A rapid, well organized response is extremely important when dealing with catastrophic events. - UNICEF Concerned About Looming Health Threat While Stepping Up ProgrammesUNICEF Concerned About Loom By : Health News
A week after devastating Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, UNICEF is concerned that hundreds of thousands of children across the affected areas remain vulnerable to the threat of disease and malnutrition unless urgently needed humanitarian relief reaches them in time. - Massive Displacement In North Kivu Following Attack Near IDP Camps By : Health News
An attack by unidentified troops in North Kivu has caused panic resulting in some 45,000 displaced persons fleeing towards Goma, nearly half of them children. - Emergency Preparedness And Response By : Health News
Disasters are getting worse it seems but the federal government's preparedness has been limited to helping after a disaster has occurred. - Emergency Preparedness And Response By : Health News
Disasters are getting worse it seems but the federal government's preparedness has been limited to helping after a disaster has occurred. - UNICEF Responds To Immediate Needs Of Children Affected By The Floods In Tabasco And Chiapas By : Health News
UNICEF has deployed two missions to assess the needs of children in the aftermath of the floods that have hit the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas. - Red Cross President Visits Flooded Regions In Mexico By : Health News
The President of the American Red Cross saw first hand the devastation in the flooded regions of Southern Mexico. - Humanitarian Aid Not Enough For Myanmar's Poor - UN Official By : Health News
A senior official of the United Nations World Food Programme said that humanitarian assistance is presently unable to meet the needs of the people of Myanmar and that the Myanmar Government must undertake immediate critical reforms for the benefit of the country's desperately poor and needy people. - Giving Sight To 1 Million In South Africans Proves 'Seeing Is Believing' By : Health News
KwaZulu Natal (KZN) has learned why 'Seeing is truly Believing' at the launch of a project to improve the vision of one million people in the province by 2010. - Violence Forces MSF To Evacuate Team From Muhajariya, South Darfur By : Health News
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) evacuated a team of 16 aid workers from Muhajariya in South Darfur, Sudan, yesterday, following an intense attack on the town. - 100 Black Men Of America And Red Cross Sign Agreement To Increase Diverse Outreach By : Health News
100 Black Men of America, Inc. and the American Red Cross are forming a partnership that will work to increase local outreach to diverse communities throughout the United States. - Violence In North Kivu (DRC): Assistance Severely Hampered By : Health News
The latest spate of violence, which started at the end of August and continues in September, is resulting in massive displacements of populations and is seriously hampering access to humanitarian assistance. - Emergency Household Kits Airlifted To Eastern DRC By : Health News
UNICEF DRC took delivery of the first batch of some 290 tonnes of emergency household kits in Goma, capital of North Kivu province. - Nurses, Physicians Educated On Unique Aspects Of Military Medicine By : Health News
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) prepares nurses and physicians to face the unique challenges of battlefield medicine in locations such as Iraq and Afghanistan. - Humana to Allow Early Prescription Refills in Minnesota Disaster Areas By : Health News
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) announced today it will allow its health plan members in three southeastern Minnesota counties to obtain early refills of their prescriptions in the wake of devastating thunderstorms and flooding that have struck the region in recent days. - Humana to Allow Early Prescription Refills in Iowa Disaster Areas By : Health News
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) announced today it will allow its health plan members in nine Iowa counties to obtain early refills of their prescriptions in the wake of devastating thunderstorms and flooding that have struck the region in recent days. - Humana to Allow Early Prescription Refills in Wisconsin Disaster Areas By : Health News
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) announced today it will allow its commercial and Medicare members in five southwestern Wisconsin counties to obtain early refills of their prescriptions in the wake of devastating thunderstorms and flooding that have struck the region in recent days. - Second Round Of Floods Expected In Bangladesh By : Health News
Bangladesh is bracing itself for potentially devastating new flooding after major rivers swelled 'alarmingly' and exceeded or neared danger levels............ - UNICEF Appeals For Over US 2 Million Dollars In Response To Hurricane Felix By : Health News
UNICEF calls on the donor community to provide US$2.085 million to cover basic emergency needs for children and women affected by Hurricane Felix................ - Afghanistan Girls' Education Initiative Gets A Boost By : Health News
A three-year plan to promote girls' education was developed in Kabul this week during a workshop organized by the Ministry of Education and UNICEF............. - AmeriCares Airlifts Relief To Nicaragua And Honduras By : Health News
In the aftermath of Hurricane Felix, which ripped through the Caribbean leaving much destruction, AmeriCares, the international relief organization............. - National Efforts To Deal With Specific Diseases Undermined By Disease-specific Aid Programs By : Health News
As billions of well-intentioned dollars are poured into disease-specific aid programs in the developing world............. - 60,000 Displaced People In Eastern DRC Receive UNICEF Assistance By : Health News
Fighting in North Kivu is threatening the lives of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). - WFP Report Shows Serious Hunger Threat For Flood Victims In DPRK By : Health News
A food security assessment prepared by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) indicates that thousands of people recovering from devastating August floods............ - WFP Report Shows Serious Hunger Threat For Flood Victims In DPRK By : Health News
A food security assessment prepared by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) indicates that thousands of people recovering from devastating August floods............ - WFP Warns Relief Efforts Hampered By Spreading Violence In Eastern DRC, Food Supplies Running Out By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) expressed alarm at an upsurge in fighting in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo............... - UNICEF Emergency Supplies Target Water, Sanitation And Education In Nicaragua By : Health News
According to the Nicaraguan Civil Defence Force, over 34,000 people have been affected by Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua's northern Caribbean region and 8,441 houses were damaged. - Purdue Expert Urges Parents To Prepare Children For Disasters By : Health News
Children will be better prepared mentally and emotionally for a natural or manmade disaster if parents speak with them in advance about the threats in a realistic but calm manner............... - WFP In Urgent Need Of US 81 Million Dollars To Feed 380,000 Displaced In Eastern By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme made an urgent appeal for US 81 million dollars in new donations to mount another major food assistance......... - Red Cross Honors Survivors Of Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later, Recovery Efforts Continue By : Health News
Two years ago, the gulf region was overcome by a rapid series of storms that caused devastation unlike any in this country's history. - WFP Buys Over 2 Million Tons Of Food On Local Southern Africa Markets By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has bought more than two million tons of food on local markets............... - WFP Needs US$22 Million To Secure Food For 1.2 Million In Somalia By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) increased the number of people it aims to feed in Somalia this year.............. - Oxfam Youth Ambassador Returns From Darfur With A Call To Action For Young Americans By : Health News
Returning with first hand accounts on what it's like to live in Darfur, Nick Anderson............... - USAID Inaugurates Sanitation Facilities At Vanagiri By : Health News
Yesterday in Vanagari, U.S. Consul General David T. Hopper inaugurated a multiservice center and a water treatment plant to help the tsunami affected community. - WFP Urgently Appeals For Funds As Aid Efforts In Peru Quake Zone Intensify By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed to international donors for urgent funding................ - WFP Distributes More Food To Flood Affected In Bangladesh By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is starting a third round of emergency food distributions in ten flood-affected districts of Bangladesh, targeting more than 800,000 people worst hit by the disaster. - Red Cross Responds To Midwest Flooding By : Health News
Rain storms, including remnants of Tropical Storm Erin, have caused persistent flooding throughout parts of the Midwest and southern U.S. This flooding has damaged thousands of homes and businesses............. - World Food Programme To Distribute Aid To DPRK Flood Victims By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that deliveries of emergency food assistance for victims of devastating floods in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will begin immediately. - UNICEF Calls For Aid To Most Affected By DPRK Floods By : Health News
UNICEF highlighted the plight of children affected by massive flooding across the Democratic People's Republic of Korea............. - Unicef Provides Support To Peru's Earthquake Victims By : Health News
UNICEF has begun the distribution of lifesaving supplies to earthquake victims. - Access To Medical Care Dangerously Scarce In And Around Mogadishu, Somalia By : Health News
Access to medical care and assistance for civilians and displaced persons in and around the Somali capital of Mogadishu has decreased alarmingly in the past months........... - WFP Airlifts Food To Peru Quake Victims As Cold Threatens Other Areas By : Health News
A C-130 Hercules aircraft carrying emergency food rations is leaving today from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) sub-regional emergency hub in Ecuador............ - Earthquake In Peru: MSF Sends Emergency Relief Supplies By : Health News
In the evening of Wednesday, August 15, the Peruvian coast was hit by a powerful earthquake (8.0-magnitude on the Richter scale). - Studies Reshape Gulf Region's Medical Planning For Natural Disasters By : Health News
The September issue of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation reveals findings............. - Hurricane Dean Places Mexican State Of Quintana Roo On Red Alert By : Health News
The Government of the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico, has issued a red alert as hurricane Dean heads towards its coast. - U.S. Offers Support To Jamaica In Advance Of Hurricane Threat By : Health News
U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica Brenda LaGrange Johnson contacted both Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and the Leader of the Opposition Bruce Golding concerning Jamaica's national response to Hurricane Dean. - First American Donation To WFP's Global Network Of Humanitarian Response Depots By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has welcomed a US$500,000 contribution from the US government to WFP's network of Humanitarian Response Depots around the world. - Generous Donors Meet American Red Cross Costs For Minnesota Bridge Collapse, USA By : Health News
Due to the extraordinary generosity of the public, the American Red Cross believes that current financial donations and pledges will be sufficient to cover the estimated costs of its response to the Minnesota bridge collapse on August 1, 2007. - Floods And Bitter Cold Snap Leave Thousands In Need Of Food Assistance In Colombia And Peru By : Health News
Severe weather in Latin America - floods in Colombia and a deadly cold snap in Peru -has left nearly 100,000 of some of the continent's poorest people in need of emergency food assistance............ - WFP Launches International Appeal For 60,000 Flood Victims In Nepal By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Nepal has initiated an emergency humanitarian response to provide an estimated 60,000 flood-affected people with food aid for up to three months. - Pakistan Needs Funds Now To Restore Children's Education In Flooded Southwest By : Health News
UNICEF is concerned that primary school education could become a casualty of the floods that have affected southwest Pakistan in the wake of cyclone Yemyin in late June. - UNICEF Calls For Protection Of Somalia's Children, Warns Of Unexploded Ordnance By : Health News
UNICEF remains distressed at the impact that violence is having on children in Mogadishu and calls on all parties to the conflict to ensure the safety of civilians, especially children. - International Volunteer Impact In Africa Small But Significant By : Health News
International health volunteers make a small yet significant contribution in sub-Saharan Africa............ - More Than Four In 10 Adults In New Orleans Report Worse Health Care Access Post-Katrina By : Health News
As the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall approaches, new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation................ - Already High Murder Rate Increased In New Orleans After Katrina By : Health News
While the overall population of New Orleans dropped considerably following Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the city, murder rates there climbed in the following two years. - Water And Sanitation To Be Provided To Thousands Of Displaced Children In Eastern Chad By : Health News
Some 30,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Eastern Chad, including 18,000 children.............. - UNICEF Provides Water Quality Testing Equipment To The Liberian Government By : Health News
UNICEF provided the Ministry of Lands, Mines, and Energy, Water Quality Testing Laboratory equipment and reagents for use at the Liberian Hydrological Service in Monrovia. - Situation Worsens For Newly Displaced Families In Somalia By : Health News
Four months into the present crisis triggered by a major wave of violence in Somalia's capital city.................. - Rising Attacks On Food Convoys Undermining WFP Work In Darfur By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) condemned the dramatic escalation in attacks on humanitarian staff and food convoys in Darfur.......... - Are World Poorest Children Losing Out On G8 Focus On Profits? By : Health News
The G8 countries, the most powerful economies of the industrial world, have donated $1.5 billion towards to eradication of disease among the poor children of the world. - Kimberly-Clark Corporation Commits 1 Million Dollars For American Red Cross Disaster Relief By : Health News
Kimberly-Clark Corporation has declared its commitment to help the American Red Cross fulfill basic human needs during times of disaster by becoming a member of the Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP). - Thousands Of Flood Survivors In Southwest Pakistan In Desperate Need Of Assistance By : Health News
The United Nations launched a $38 million Flash Appeal on 18 July in Geneva to assist hundreds of thousands of people............... - WFP Warns Of Food Supply Line Break To Somalia As Needs Grow By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed for urgent contributions to avoid breaks in its supply line of food assistance to Somalia because of forecasts of crop failure. - WFP Warns Of Food Supply Line Break To Somalia As Needs Grow By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed for urgent contributions to avoid breaks in its supply line of food assistance to Somalia because of forecasts of crop failure. - Statement By Catherine Mbengue, UNICEF Representative To Afghanistan By : Health News
"On Monday, July 9, two rockets fired by militants struck a primary school in Kunar province, killing one child instantly and injuring three other children. - American Red Cross Provides 190,000 Dollars For Pakistan Flood Relief By : Health News
The American Red Cross will provide 190,000 dollars to support the emergency relief and recovery efforts in Pakistan. - American Red Cross Provides $190,000 For Pakistan Flood Relief By : Health News
The American Red Cross will provide $190,000 to support the emergency relief and recovery efforts in Pakistan. - UN Seeks Funds To Combat Child Malnutrition Crisis In Kenya Camps By : Health News
Three United Nations agencies urged donors to support an appeal for a full package of assistance to cut malnutrition rates at crisis levels among children under five in refugee camps in Kenya. - New Agreement To Keep Children Safe In Emergency Shelters By : Health News
Disasters can strike anywhere, at anytime. When a community is affected, friends and neighbors join efforts through a number of venues to help and aid those in need. - American Red Cross To Promote Preparedness, Volunteerism At 2007 Essence Music Festival By : Health News
The American Red Cross is joining forces with Essence Music Festival, presented by Coca-Cola, to promote disaster preparedness and community volunteerism in New Orleans and across the country. - One Fifth Of Timor Population Needs Food Assistance, UN Report Says By : Health News
Persistent drought and plagues of locusts ravaged Timor-Leste's harvest in 2007 . . . . . . . . . - WFP Appeals To Kenyan Authorities To Allow Food Into Somalia By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme appealed to Kenyan authorities to allow food assistance on 140 trucks to cross into Somalia. - Establishing Green Chemistry In Ethiopia By : Health News
University of Nottingham scientists have been instrumental in helping to establish a pioneering branch of chemistry in Ethiopia. - Congress To Vote On Abstinence And Foreign Aid Levels By : Health News
Today the full House is expected to vote on the FY 2008 Foreign Aid bill, and close votes are expected on several amendments directly relevant to HIV/AIDS as well as the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis. - Congress To Vote On Abstinence And Foreign Aid Levels By : Health News
Today the full House is expected to vote on the FY 2008 Foreign Aid bill, and close votes are expected on several amendments directly relevant to HIV/AIDS as well as the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis. - More WFP Trucks With Humanitarian Assistance Head For Gaza By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme has announced that nine trucks carrying 225 metric tons of food have begun to cross the border into Gaza today. - President Bush Intends To Reappoint American Red Cross Chairman By : Health News
President Bush intends to reappoint Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Chairman of the American Red Cross Board of Governors, for a second three-year term, it was announced yesterday. - South Korea Donation To WFP Allows Major Boost To Its Feeding Programmes In DPRK By : Health News
The United Nations World Food Programme welcomed an announcement of a critically needed contribution worth in excess of US 20 million dollars by the Republic of Korea (RoK) to WFP's food assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) . . . . . . . . - In Emergency, Evacuation Software Finds Best Way To Route Millions Of Vehicles By : Health News
Yi-Chang Chiu wants to move people efficiently - lots of people, millions of people - in response to a terrorist attack or natural disaster. - Satellite Images Show Destroyed And Threatened Villages In Darfur By : Health News
A pioneering AAAS program that provides technical expertise to human rights groups is helping Amnesty International USA . . . . . . . . - Food For People Brings Hope To Tribal Villagers In India By : Health News
It has been one year since the inception of Food for People, a 10,000-square-foot custom-built facility funded by The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF). - Louisiana House Committee Approves Bill To Create Medical Networks For Low-Income By : Health News
The Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee on Tuesday approved a bill (SB 1) that would launch pilot programs to provide health coverage for low-income and uninsured state residents who live in areas affected by the hurricanes in 2005, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports. - Economic Impact Of Hunger Affects All Americans By : Health News
While thirty-five million Americans feel the physical effects of hunger each day, every household and individual in our nation feels the economic effects. - Satellite Images Show Destroyed And Threatened Villages In Darfur By : Health News
A pioneering AAAS program that provides technical expertise to human rights groups . . . . . . . . . - Baucus, Grassley Ask Treasury Secretary To Revise IRS Form For Not-For-Profit Organizations By : Health News
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on May 29 sent a letter to Department . . . . . . . . - USAID Grant Funds UC Davis Partnership To Improve TB Diagnosis In Pakistan By : Health News
UC Davis and Pakistani researchers have received a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop a better method for diagnosing tuberculosis that employs novel technology . . . . . . . . . - American Red Cross Promotes Prevention And Control Of Tuberculosis Along U.S. - Mexican Border By : Health News
While the global health community and residents of several countries are concerned about news reports of the estimated 100 people who may have contracted tuberculosis (TB) from an infected airplane passenger recently . . . . . . . . . - WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran Meets Pope Benedict XVI By : Health News
Pope Benedict XVI today received in private audience Ms. Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). - World Bicycle Relief Opens Second Assembly Facility, Continues Fight Against HIV/AIDS In Zambia By : Health News
World Bicycle Relief today announced the opening of a second assembly operation in the African nation of Zambia, scheduled for Monday, June 4, in Ndola.
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