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Deadly Illness in Nicaragua Baffles Experts
Source: The New York Times
CHICHIGALPA, Nicaragua — During the harvest season, when exhausted workers spend seven days a week cutting sugar cane, the signs of illness were hard to spot at first. It was in the off-season, out on the baseball field, that some residents noticed a change. Base-stealers…
Resource type: News
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Conference seeks better support system for mentally ill
Source: Vietnam Plus
A conference in Hanoi on March 27 sought to develop an equitable social support system for people with mental disorders. The event was jointly organised by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and the Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) in Vietnam – an organisation…
Resource type: News
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Minister of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) Meets with Atlantic Senior Staff
Source: Minister of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs
>Read in VietnameseOn 25th February 2013, Minister of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Madam Pham Thi Hai Chuyen had a working session with Mr. Christopher G. Oechsli, Chief Executive Officer and President of The Atlantic Philanthropies (Atlantic). Vice Minister Nguyen Trong Dam,…
Resource type: News
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Grow Young
Source: Shine and The Source Group
Raising awareness of support services, providing educational and self-help courses, and training health professionals to recognise symptoms of psychological distress in older people are among the recommendations from this report for Shine that Atlantic funded. It is the first qualitative mental health research in the…
Resource type: Research Report
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St. James’s Hospital Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing, Dublin, Ireland
The Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing at St. James ‘s Hospital in Dublin is an example of a capital investment that went beyond mere construction. Atlantic offered the hospital a matching grant of €2.7 million over five years in 2004 enabling the hospital to obtain a long-sought…
Resource type: Video
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$125 million donation for new UCSF hospital
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…
Resource type: News
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Millions from global Aids fund not forthcoming
Source: The Times
by Sally Evans CHARITIES and non-profit organisations (NGO) are in for a rough two years. Economists say organisations that rely on corporate funding will need to brace themselves for a reduction in cash over the next two years at least. This comes a few months…
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TUI warns budget cuts will 'asset-strip' education
Source: Irish Times
by SEAN FLYNN, GORDON DEEGAN and KITTY HOLLAND Over 1,000 teaching posts will be lost and the entire education sector will be "asset-stripped" because of the budget cuts, the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) said yesterday. In a separate development, the Bishop of Killaloe, Dr…
Resource type: News
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Elderly face greater road risks
Source: The Irish Times
by EITHNE DONNELLAN OLDER PEOPLE do not have sufficient time to cross the road safely at many pedestrian crossings in Dublin as a result of the way traffic lights are currently sequenced, a new study has found. The research, presented at the annual scientific meeting…
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Durban academic at forefront of fight against HIV
Source: The Mercury (South Africa)
PASSION, empathy and extensive research have put a Durban academic at the forefront of the fight against the HIV/Aids infection among young children in South Africa. Prof Anna Coutsoudis, a leading expert in mother-to-child transmission of the HI virus, has proved together with her colleagues…
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