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11-30-07
Barrick Marks World AIDS Day with New Clinics in PNG and Tanzania
On December 1, World AIDS Day, a newly rebuilt health clinic providing HIV/AIDS services will open near Barrick's Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea, along with a new facility set to open in the New Year at the company's Tulawaka mine in Tanzania.
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11-30-07
Run-in-a-Million Run from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Raise Awareness About AIDS and HIV Testing
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - November 30, 2007 - /PRNewswire/ - Mike Sacco and close friend Lejon Boudreaux, along with world-renowned, ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes have signed on to bring awareness to the AIDS epidemic by staging a run from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The 510-mi...
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11-30-07
Support AIDS Vaccine Research on World AIDS Day
NEW YORK - November 30, 2007 "“ In honor of World AIDS Day on December 1, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Yahoo! have joined forces to raise US$100,000 to support pioneering technologies for AIDS vaccine research.
IAVI and Y...
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11-30-07
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Announces Extended Research Support from BD
NEW YORK - November 29, 2007 - In advance of World AIDS Day on December 1, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) announced that BD, a global medical technology company, will provide the non-profit organization with US$900,000 in cash, equipment and medical supplie...
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11-29-07
International Federation-Lilly Agreement Will Allow Significant Increase in MDR-TB Programmes
GENEVA - November 29, 2007 - /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Eli Lilly and Company, a multi-national pharmaceutical company, signed an agreement which will allow an eight-fold increase in the number of Interna...
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11-28-07
LUCITA and Martin Gray Present Sacred Sites, a Dual-System Calendar for 2008
NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 27, 2007 - In response to growing public fascination worldwide with the Mayan calendar and culture, CSR design & communications firm LUCITA has teamed up with acclaimed National Geographic photographer Martin Gray to produce the first dual-sy...
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11-19-07
Merck Company Foundation Expands Network of Immunization Training Centers in Africa
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. - November 19, 2007 - The Merck Company Foundation announced today a $2.8 million commitment to establish two new immunization training centers in Uganda and Zambia and to expand the Foundation's support of two existing centers in Kenya and Mali as p...
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11-16-07
View The Aspen Health Forum Online
WASHINGTON, DC - November 16, 2007 - The Aspen Health Forum is now available online in both video and audio formats at www.aspeninstitute.org/ahf/video.
Organized by The Aspen...
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11-15-07
Public Health Officials Announce First Country to Eliminate Transmission of the Tropical Disease Onchocerciasis
WHITEHOUSE STATION, NJ, USA, and QUITO, ECUADOR - November 15, 2007 - Public health officials gathering at the 17th Inter-American Conference on Onchocerciasis (IACO) in Quito, Ecuador, today announced that transmission of the tropical disease onchocerciasis (also known as r...
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11-12-07
Compass Group Points the Way to a Zero Trans Fat Course
CHARLOTTE, NC - November 7, 2007 - Compass Group North America, the largest foodservice provider in the country, has announced that it has eliminated two million pounds trans-fat and 485,000 pounds saturated fat from their customers' diets this past year.
