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Update from Northern Ireland: February Agreement Puts Government Back on the Track to Peace
Northern Ireland was a different place when Atlantic first began making grants there in the early 1990s. The violent conflict had claimed thousands of lives and had deeply divided communities. Atlantic was drawn to the country by Atlantic Founder, Chuck Feeney, who himself played an…
Author: Martin OBrien
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Advocacy Group Challenges Major Medicare Coverage Barrier
The Center for Medicare Advocacy is launching a new initiative to eliminate the Medicare “Improvement Standard,” which requires that Medicare beneficiaries be able to improve in order to qualify for coverage. For decades Medicare beneficiaries, particularly those with long-term, debilitating conditions and those who need…
Author: Elder Law Answers
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Foundation recovery likely slow
Original Source The Foundation Center and the Council on Foundations are Atlantic grantees. by Ret Boney The injuries foundations sustained during the market downturns were severe, and it likely will be years before foundation giving is back on track, but funders have risen to the…
Author: Philanthropy Journal
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Drink-driving in Vietnam researcher awarded Young Doctor of the Year
Queensland University of Technology is an Atlantic grantee. Dr Nguyen Minh Tam (photo, right) is an AP supported student in the Public Health Capacity Building Project conducted by Michael Dunne. Original Source: http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=29705 A PhD researcher currently based at QUT has recently been awarded the…
Author: Queensland University of Technology
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U.S. NGO to Grant $1.07M for Health Project in Vietnam
The U.S. charity organization Atlantic Philanthropies will donate $1.07 million to a project to strengthen first aid services for the injured in Vietnam from now to 2011, the state-run Ha Noi Moi newspaper said Wednesday. The project aims to raise the capabilities of health staff…
Author: Vietnam News Brief Service
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Spoonfuls of medicine
Original Source by ALEX VAN HEEVER Robust criticism of specific national health insurance (NHI) proposals should not be seen as negating the need for fundamental strategic reform, which includes both social and universal insurance options as components. Such reforms are urgently needed, but will require…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa)
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Long-term care threatens to sap seniors' savings
AARP is an Atlantic grantee. by Bob Moos Kay Paggi has been the bearer of bad news more times than she cares to remember. The senior-care coordinator has helped hundreds of Dallas families find long-term care for frail parents. Almost always, they think Medicare will…
Author: The Dallas Morning News
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Tracking a New Generation
Recruiting starts next month for the largest long-term study of children’s health ever conducted in the U.S. by Claudia Kalb American kids are about to get some much-needed attention. Next month, after 10 years of strategizing, researchers will finally start recruiting participants for the largest…
Author: Newsweek
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Another Letter from South Africa: A Young Man’s Journey Out of Poverty Lifts Others Along the Way
Themba Mngomezulu stood on a hillside on his family’s land, in Ingwavuma, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, not far from the border of Swaziland, and told us his story. Not far away, his grandmother sat on a straw mat on the floor of her one-room…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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WHO vows to fundraise for Vietnam's health
Original Source Geneva (VNA) The World Health Organisation will help Vietnam source funds for developing strategies to deal with climate change’s impact on health, said General Director of the UN health body Magaret Chan. Despite not being a fundraising organisation, WHO will call on international…
Author: Vietnam News Agency