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...
by annaread | Oct 20, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
naturenews reports that a trial vaccine against malaria has proven safe and effective for infants as young as a few weeks. In fact, the vaccine is most effective if given soon after birth. Read the article.
by annaread | Oct 19, 2007 | Collaboration, Evangelization, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
At their September meeting in Matola, African provincials of the Daughters of Charity received an update about DREAM, (Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition). A brief summary of the presentation and links to news about the project may be found on...
by annaread | Oct 18, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Programs for grandparents who are rearing grandchildren — 70,000 such adults in Arkansas — and collaborating with churches and educational institutions to increase accessibility of mental health care: these are some of the things Daughter of Charity Sister...
