by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Previously famvin.org published a link to a participant’s overview of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society’s conference on poverty. Now a complete digest of the day includes summaries of the keynote address by John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., J.D., J.C.D....
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The October 20, 2007 edition of the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans reports on “Operation Giving Back”, a project of the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. A former school is being remodeled as a neighborhood health clinic to be...
by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Peter Agre MD, who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will become director of the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He told the Baltimore Sun that malaria has long fascinated him because it is so deadly and so...
by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Spend more on making indoor sprays available. That’s advice at the World Health Organization’s malaria evaluation meeting today in Burkina Faso. Sprays that include DDT are especially effective because they last longer on walls and are effective against...
by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Evangelization, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Upgrading the skills of 22,000 nurses would take 220 years at Kenya’s traditional training college. But a forward-looking e-learning program has already admitted 2000 students to the same training. Compared to the 2.5 year traditional program, the new method...
