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This brief examines states’ Medicaid and CHIP policy choices that will be available under health reform and other federal legislation to develop a well-coordinated system of care for children receiving early intervention and other ongoing services. CLICK TO READ THE REPORT

Global Health Corps announced applications are open for year-long fellowships for professionals under 30 years old to work on the front lines of underserved communities around the world. GHC announced: Global Health Corps is expanding this year to support 70 emerging leaders in their 2011-2012 fellowship class.Applications for placements in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and …

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The New York Times today reports on a story certain to raise a lot of controversy: A nonprofit clinic in Vancouver is fighting the spread of HIV by letting drug addicts get high on the premises. Called Insite, the organization, which has an exemption from Canada’s narcotics laws, draws heroin and cocaine addicts in by offering …

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Capetown’s Positive Beadwork Project is an initiative by Kidzpositive to train HIV/AIDs infected mothers in South Africa to produce beadwork at home.  Right now, more than 100 infected mothers are making beaded pins, wristbands, napkin rings, eyeglass holders, and Christmas ornaments. The website describes the effort: The Project is purely a job creation enterprise with up to …

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The latest issue of Pacific Youth Voices is out now, click the link below to download your copy! Pacific Youth Voices October 2010

Zimbabwe has halved its HIV rates from 1997 to 2007 according to a study in British journal Plos. Reuters reported today on the findings: British researchers said Zimbabwe’s epidemic was one of the biggest in the world until the rate of people infected with HIV almost halved, from 29 percent of the population in 1997 to 16 percent …

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Every year half a million children under 5 die from Strepcoccus Pneumoniae, or pneumoccal disease. We’ve written about the life-saving pneumonia vaccine already, which is key because, in Kenya, the disease claims the lives of more children than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. More than 70 percent of the deaths caused by the disease are …

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Here’s a novel idea: what if people, normal healthy women and men in developing villages around the globe, jumped in to fill the gap of doctors and nurses?  In today’s New York Times Opinionator column, Tina Rosenberg looks at one village in India that trains villagers to do the jobs of doctors and nurses. It’s …

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Despite its often anti-protection opinions, the Vatican will be hosting an AIDS conference, which will hopefully clarify their recent confusing flip-flopping on condoms. PBS Newshour headlines the incredible news: Last fall, Pope Benedict XVI grabbed headlines when he saidduring an interview that the use of condoms might be a sign of moral responsibility for someone …

Latest: Will the Vatican Allow Condoms After Its AIDS Conference? Read More »

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