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		<title>National RN Relief Group Teams Up With Navy For Medical Mission To Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Current Write-up Ratings: Patient / Public: Healthcare Prof: The first team of registered nurse volunteers from California, Michigan, and Washington State will depart for Haiti Wednesday morning using the Department of Defense&#8217;s Continuing Promise, National Nurses United (NNU), the nation&#8217;s largest organization of registered nurses, announced. The volunteer RN team will be treating patients in...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/national-rn-relief-group-teams-up-with-navy-for-medical-mission-to-haiti/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Join Neutrogena&#8217;s Wave For Change And Help Raise Up To $200,000 For Disaster Relief, Education And Environmental Charities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[care Prof: Understanding teens&#8217; determination and passion for change, Neutrogena, the #1 dermatologist-recommended skin care brand, is launching Wave for Change, a charitable campaign that makes it easy for teens everywhere to not only give back, but to choose how Neutrogena will support communities in need to have. This summer, starting on July 17th by...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/join-neutrogenas-wave-for-change-and-help-raise-up-to-200000-for-disaster-relief-education-and-environmental-charities/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://karenhowes.com/join-neutrogenas-wave-for-change-and-help-raise-up-to-200000-for-disaster-relief-education-and-environmental-charities/</link>
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		<title>Washington Post Examines Haiti Rebuilding Challenges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[care Prof: The Washington Post examines the international effort to rebuild Haiti after the January 12 earthquake. &#8220;U.S. lawmakers and international aid officials have expressed mounting concern about the slow recovery with the hemisphere&#8217;s poorest country &#8230; Despite ambitious plans to &#8216;build back better,&#8217; as U.N. and U.S. officials promised, the reconstruction has been hobbled...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/washington-post-examines-haiti-rebuilding-challenges/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>WFP Plans Massive Scale Up In Hunger Relief Operation As Needs Grow Dramatically In Drought-Hit Niger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[care Prof: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said it is massively scaling-up its food assistance operation in the west African state of Niger to feed up to 8 million hungry folks who have lost crops and livestock due to a especially severe drought. &#8220;The drought in Niger is an unfolding catastrophe for...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/wfp-plans-massive-scale-up-in-hunger-relief-operation-as-needs-grow-dramatically-in-drought-hit-niger/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://karenhowes.com/wfp-plans-massive-scale-up-in-hunger-relief-operation-as-needs-grow-dramatically-in-drought-hit-niger/</link>
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		<title>Sec. Of State Clinton Stresses Importance Of Science And Innovation For Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[care Prof: &#8220;Innovation, science [and] technology ought to again become fundamental components of how we conduct development work,&#8221; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a &#8220;high-level meeting of international development and science experts&#8221; last week, SciDev.net reports. The meeting, Transforming Development By means of Science Technology and Innovation, &#8220;was originally billed as a consultation...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/sec-of-state-clinton-stresses-importance-of-science-and-innovation-for-development/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Opinions: AIDS Vaccine And Cure; China&#8217;s Role Inside the Global Fund; Child Marriage Prevention Act; Gorbachev On Safe Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Present Write-up Ratings: Patient / Public: 5 (1 votes) Healthcare Prof: AIDS Vaccine, Cure Important Long-Term Solutions A Globe and Mail editorial discusses the importance of &#8220;the quest for an AIDS vaccine and also the search for a cure,&#8221; stating that &#8220;it is simply not possible to &#8216;treat&#8217; our way out of this illness.&#8221; The...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/opinions-aids-vaccine-and-cure-chinas-role-inside-the-global-fund-child-marriage-prevention-act-gorbachev-on-safe-water/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://karenhowes.com/opinions-aids-vaccine-and-cure-chinas-role-inside-the-global-fund-child-marriage-prevention-act-gorbachev-on-safe-water/</link>
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		<title>Also In Global Well being News: India&#8217;s Food Security; ASEAN To Address Disaster Preparedness; Iraqi Food Aid; Why Fistula Plagues Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[care Prof: Implications And Challenges Of India&#8217;s Proposed Food Security Bill A Reuters article discusses the implications of an Indian bill that would &#8220;subsidise grains for the poor, a move that will impact government finances at the same time as political support.&#8221; In accordance with the news service, the proposal &#8220;aims to partly shield a...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/also-in-global-well-being-news-indias-food-security-asean-to-address-disaster-preparedness-iraqi-food-aid-why-fistula-plagues-kenya/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://karenhowes.com/also-in-global-well-being-news-indias-food-security-asean-to-address-disaster-preparedness-iraqi-food-aid-why-fistula-plagues-kenya/</link>
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		<title>Also In Global Wellness News: Humanitarian Aid To Somalia Underfunded; Sahel Food Crisis; Social History Of Malaria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[care Prof: Somalia Humanitarian Aid Underfunded; Donors Discouraged Due To Violence &#8220;U.N. humanitarian activities in Somalia are severely underfunded, hurting Somalis who are outside areas controlled by Islamist rebels, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday,&#8221; Reuters reports. The news service writes that humanitarian coordinator Mark Bowden &#8220;told reporters health, water and sanitation assistance for...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/also-in-global-wellness-news-humanitarian-aid-to-somalia-underfunded-sahel-food-crisis-social-history-of-malaria/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://karenhowes.com/also-in-global-wellness-news-humanitarian-aid-to-somalia-underfunded-sahel-food-crisis-social-history-of-malaria/</link>
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		<title>Organizations Highlight Plight Of HIV-Positive Haitians, Call For Donors To Support &#8216;Whole Of Society&#8217; Well being Technique Strengthening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[care Prof: Organizations attending the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 highlighted the plight of HIV-positive earthquake survivors in Haiti who are &#8220;still waiting for aid promised to them before&#8221; the quake as rebuilding efforts slowly move along, Agence France-Presse reports. AFP notes the sentiments of a few of the organizations&#8217; representatives. &#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult for grassroots...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/organizations-highlight-plight-of-hiv-positive-haitians-call-for-donors-to-support-whole-of-society-well-being-technique-strengthening/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://karenhowes.com/organizations-highlight-plight-of-hiv-positive-haitians-call-for-donors-to-support-whole-of-society-well-being-technique-strengthening/</link>
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		<title>Statement By UNICEF&#8217;s Executive Director On Ongoing Situation In Southern Kyrgyzstan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[care Prof: The political situation in southern Kyrgyzstan has calmed down. But life for Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s kids has not. As their stories vanish from the front page, we risk putting their safety on the back burner. We cannot allow that to happen for the 100,000 children displaced by violence. We cannot allow that to happen for...<a href="http://karenhowes.com/statement-by-unicefs-executive-director-on-ongoing-situation-in-southern-kyrgyzstan/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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