Results List
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Making Medical Donations Work
The New York Times “Fixes” blog post, Making Medical Donations Work, features Atlantic grantee, MedShare, and Dr. Le Nhan Phuong, Atlantic’s Country Director for Viet Nam and Population Health Programme Director, in a summary of ways to help hospitals in poor countries, particularly rural areas that…
Author: The New York Times – “Fixes” blog
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Sustaining The Atlantic Philanthropies’ vision into the next decade
As the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation’s founding donor,The Atlantic Philanthropies placed a great deal of faith in Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to create a world-class Institute that focuses its research to make a real and sustainable difference to people’s lives. Throughout the past decade,…
Author: Queensland University of Technology Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
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Ethnic Seniors Avoid End-of-Life Talk, but Want More Options
New America Media/Northwest Vietnamese News, News Feature, Julie Pham,Part 2 of 2. Read part 1 here. At the Vietnamese Senior Association (VSA) in Seattle, Marie Thu Le, 75, confessed that “When my time comes, I don’t want to be dependent on machines. I don’t want to…
Author: The Immigrant Magazine
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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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US NGO cares maternal and infant health in Vietnam
Original Source Central Thua Thien – Hue province received a US-based Atlantic Philanthropies-funded project to improve maternal and infant health on March 17. The 425,000 USD project will be implemented at provincial hospitals and in A Luoi and Phong Dien districts from now till the…
Author: Vietnam News Agency
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Vietnam: PM's opinions on some foreign-funded projects
The PM gave permissions on August 26 to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Vietnam Lawyers’ Association to take over foreign-funded projects separately. The MoH will adopt the 24-month Project “Capacity increasing in research and training activities of the Injury Prevention and Policy Research…
Author: Thai News Service
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Atlantic Philanthropies Awards $3.5 Million for Vietnamese Hospital Expansion
Original Source Atlantic Philanthropies has awarded $3.5 million for the construction of a state-of-the-art facility to house the departments of oncology and tropical diseases at Da Nang Hospital in Vietnam, the Vietnam News Service reports. The project will be implemented by the California-based East Meets…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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NGOs fund tropical disease, oncology wings at hospital
Original Source DA NANG – Contruction on a new, state-of-the-art building to house Da Nang’s Hospital’s departments of oncology and tropical diseases began on Thursday. Funded by the Bermuda-headquartered NGO Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) and implemented by the East Meets West (EMW) Foundation, the US$3.5 million…
Author: Vietnam News Agency
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Three NGOs licensed to open rep. offices in Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge Three foreign non-governmental organisations, which have been involved in aid providing programmes in Vietnam for years, have been licensed to extend their operation and open representative offices in the country. President of the Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Vu Xuan Hong…
Author: VietNam Net
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Learning Center in Vietnam Opens at Can Tho University
The most modern $9.14 million learning resource center in Vietnam was officially opened at Can Tho University on April 24, bring the total number of centers of this kind in the country to three to date, a local newspaper reported. Built on the site of…
Author: Vietnam News Brief Service