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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Surgeons “operate” on clinic facility
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 run by the...
Nobel laureate will lead malaria institute
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...
New approach to malaria recommended
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 mosquitoes....
New solution for Kenyan nursing shortage
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 takes...
eBay gets into microfinance
With as little as $100, it is possible to invest in microfinance, the topic of last week's famvin.org feature on systemic change. Today eBay, the online auction site, launched MicroPlace and its slogan: "Invest wisely. End poverty." See BBC coverage and visit the...
Standing up, speaking out to eradicate poverty
In world record-breaking numbers last week, almost 39 million people in 110 countries participated in the "Stand Up and Speak Out" organized by the United Nations Millennium Campaign and the Global Call to Action against Poverty. Read the United Nations article and...
Why did that man poach tigers?
He's hungry. That's the explanation of an Indian poacher who has been in and out of jail several times. Read the story.
Preparing for WYD 2008 with “Vinspiration”
From Vincentians Australian News: The Australian Vincentian World Youth Day 2008 Web site includes a monthly feature that invites learning about and reflecting on Vincentian saints and blesseds. The self-guided reflection sheets are based on a program offered in two...
SVDP keeps mattresses out of the dumps
There are a lot of reasons to keep mattresses out of landfills, says the executive director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County in Eugene, Oregon. Terry McDonald described the DR3 -- divert, reduce, reuse, recycle -- program and the many reasons it's a...
Sr Helen Prejean gives law school talk
Earlier today Sr Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, spoke at University of St. Thomas Law School. Read a summary of the talk by a professor who attended.
