Results List
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Study to examine cross-border care
Source: Irish Medical Times
The Centre for Cross Border Studies is an Atlantic grantee. A new cross-border study will revisit the controversial Teamwork report that recommended just one public hospital in the northeast with 24/7 clinical services. As staff in the region are digesting the news that emergency services,…
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SA won't meet ARV roll-out target, says Motsoaledi
Source: Mail & Guardian online
by PEROSHNI GOVENDER South Africa will not meet a target of providing life-prolonging drugs to 80% of people living with HIV/Aids by 2011 due to logistical problems and a lack of personnel, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday. "We are now covering 700 000…
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MRCI and ICTU Welcome Long-Awaited Scheme for Undocumented Migrant Workers
Source: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU)
The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland is an Atlantic grantee. The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) welcome the introduction today by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern, TD, of a long-awaited scheme to regularise…
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Pittsburgh Foundation's new plan embraces advocacy
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
By Bill Zlatos The Pittsburgh Foundation is broadening its grantmaking — delving into the environment and advocacy — so it can become more of a community leader. "The public face of The Pittsburgh Foundation has been youthful, curious, positive, optimistic and exuberant — a kind…
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National Health Insurance a priority, says minister
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Implementing the National Health Insurance (NHI) was one of the department's priorities between 2009 and 2014, deputy Health Minister Dr Molefi Sefularo said. He was addressing the annual conference of the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) at Sun City on…
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Victory for Migrant Workers' Campaign
Source: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland is an Atlantic grantee. The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland is celebrating a significant victory regarding the announcement today by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern, TD, together with the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and…
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Take2: Winds of change sweep SA healthcare
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by ANNABEL JACOBY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - As recently as last year, professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of South Africa’s foremost HIV researchers, were two of the health department’s greatest enemies. Former…
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Parents Scramble as Ax Falls on After-School Programs
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Original Source Afterschool Alliance and The After-School Corporation are Atlantic grantees. By SUE SHELLENBARGER A critical safety net for working parents is unraveling, and many are bracing to pay a hefty price. As schools open their doors this month and next, closings and cutbacks at…
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Dropouts costing Texas billions
Source: Austin American-Statesman
Original Source Communities In Schools is an Atlantic grantee. By Kate AlexanderAMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF No matter how high-school dropouts are counted, Texas has a lot of them, and together they pack quite an economic punch to the gut. The students in the class of 2012 who…
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Newsmakers: Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Original Source KIPP and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation The Obama administration has thrown down the gauntlet to educators and legislators to fix "an education system that used to be...the best in the world, and no longer…
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