Results List
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Better future for mothers, babies
Compiled by the Government Communication and Information System Pretoria – A project which combines a wide range of technologies is expected to improve maternal and newborn health. The Maternal and Newborn Health Technology Initiative (MNTI) focuses mainly on introducing lifesaving technologies, standardising maternal and newborn…
Author: BuaNews
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Declaration of the Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010, Boksburg, South Africa
The Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010 was a historic turning point in the history of South Africa. Over 300 delegates from 56 mass-based civil society organisations, with a combined membership of millions of South Africans, came together to rebuild a strong, mass…
Author: The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
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The Great Give Away
When you have as much money as Bill Gates, you have to work damn hard to get rid of it. At least if you want to disposeof it wisely. So in May the Microsoft founder, whose fortune is estimated at $53 billion (¤40 billion), was…
Author: Sunday Times
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New Senior Staff Hires Strengthen Atlantic for Social Justice Mission and Spending Down Assets
I don’t usually use this space for organisational announcements, but we have recently made three new appointments to Atlantic’s senior staff, who together bring enormous strengths to our mission and each of whom illustrates something important about where the foundation is going in its final…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Changing the Story: Using the Arts to Advance Social Justice
In the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life. Her trip is lonely and dangerous, and through her eyes Sin Nombre…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Viet Nam Journal: Over 11 Years, Atlantic Grants Help Spur a Country’s Transformation in Health
Several of the staff of the Hue Central Hospital were kind enough to come to work last Sunday morning to give my Atlantic colleagues and me a tour of what has become a world-class facility in the ten years since our Founding Chairman, Chuck Feeney,…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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SAGE Announces $1.5 Million in New Funding from The Calamus Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies for New Strategic Plan
Calamus Gives One of the Largest Grants in Its History to SAGE. CORRECTION: Please note the release distributed on Tuesday, December 9th was in error. The Atlantic Philanthropies grant to SAGE was not the Foundation’s first gift to an LGBT organization. Please use the corrected…
Author: SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders)
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Agent Orange: Congenital deformities plague Vietnam; U.S. slow to help
By Jason Grotto. DONG NAI PROVINCE, Vietnam. U.S., Vietnam split over whether defoliants used in war are to blame Part 3 of a Tribune investigation finds that the role of defoliants in Vietnam’s high rate of birth defects remains a contentious question decades after U.S.…
Author: Chicago Tribune
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Spit for money: SA's illegal trade in TB-infected saliva
Original Source Tuberculosis sufferers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, were found to be selling samples of their sputum to healthy people to pass off as their own in a scam to gain medical grants. An investigation by the West Cape News identified people with TB charging between R50…
Author: Guardian News and Media
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Clinton sees fresh start with South Africa
Original Source by SHAUN TANDON | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a broad alliance with South Africa on Saturday as she basked in a warm welcome from President Jacob Zuma. An upbeat Clinton shook her hips to the…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online