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S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy
Source: The New York Times
Original Source Several organisations involved in this report are Atlantic grantees: Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the…
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Lancet: Leadership needed to fight SA violence
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape are Atlantic grantees. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children USA through a grant from…
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US, SA pledge to work for a 'free' Zimbabwe
Source: Mail & Guardian
Original Source by Shaun Tandon | Pretoria, South Africa The United States and South Africa pledged joint action on Friday to induce reforms in Zimbabwe as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed a new spirit of cooperation between the two democracies. Clinton, visiting Africa's largest…
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Six billion dollar man
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Original Source and Video Broadcast: 30/07/2009 Reporter: Kerry O'Brien Quietly spoken American billionaire Chuck Feeney has flown under the public radar for most of his long and very successful life. Over decades he built an international empire of duty free stores, but in the eighties,…
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Concern over Criminal Justice Bill
Source: Sunday Business Post
by Niamh Connolly The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), a Geneva-based organisation headed by former president Mary Robinson, has raised serious concerns about the Criminal Justice Bill. The legislation is due to pass its final stage in the Dail on Friday, but the ICJ has…
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Older job seekers struggle to overcome age barrier
Source: Associated Press Online
The Urban Institute and AARP are Atlantic grantees. by CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER Like many unemployed older workers, 64-year old Allan Kellum fears his age has made it harder to find a new job. At a recent job fair, Kellum expressed interest in a supervisory role…
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6th Circuit favors Tenn. lethal injection process
Source: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
by LUCAS L. JOHNSON II A federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court's ruling that Tennessee's lethal injection process is unconstitutional. In 2007, the U.S. District Court in Nashville supported a claim by Edward Jerome Harbison, 54, that Tennessee's lethal injection process violates…
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National Geriatric Home Health Care Quality Program Offers New Tools and Discussion Forums Through an Expanded Web Site
Source: Center for Home Care Policy & Research
June 30 expansion of CHAMP Program web site includes new online community features, best practices, resources, and tools 01 Jul 2009 New York, NY (PRWEB) July 1, 2009 - To improve the quality of home care services for older persons, the Center for Home Care…
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'Professionals are flogging unregistered HIV remedies'
Source: Cape Times (South Africa)
The University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Treatment Action Campaign are Atlantic grantees. by Sonya Bell Sales of unregistered medicines to HIV patients are being made by medical professionals, according to academics, activists and medical practitioners across the country. "This is a problem and I think…
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Microsoft veterans aim to make philanthropy more personal
Source: The Seattle Times
By Kristi Heim, Seattle Times business reporter Microsoft veterans are launching two Seattle nonprofits aimed at encouraging a new generation of philanthropists by using mobile phones, social networking and online connections between donors and people in need. Each started by asking the same question: How…
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