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Despite its potential lethality, hepatitis has long been one of public health's forgotten stepchildren. There is very little education about the disease, not only among the general public and policymakers, but also among the at-risk population, health-care providers and social workers. That ignorance is one reason the U.S. government devotes comparatively piddling resources to its prevention, tracking and control. Hepatitis receives a fraction of the funding devoted to HIV/AIDS by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, although it affects three to five times as many Americans. "The people with hepatitis...
...It’s become clear that the University has a very, very long-term plan for Allston. It won’t happen in my professional lifetime,” she said...
Even if food and other provisions were dropped en masse into the areas that desperately needed them, this would only be a temporary solution. People cannot live amongst rubble and decaying corpses in the long-term. Providing care to the afflicted, security, reuniting loved ones, and educating the youth are all things that would be more effectively delivered in the centralized environment of tent cities. Once people have been moved into temporary tent cities, work must be done to smooth their transition into more permanent cities. This is part of the second phase of Haiti’s reconstruction?...
...hand and cause destruction with the other—an unfortunate pattern in Haiti’s past. Now, while we have the world’s attention and the news cameras still covering the story, we must collaborate and advocate such plans for Haiti’s long-term progress. E-meetings, e-mail lists, social networking websites, and Twitter are just a few examples of the types of technology we can use to connect with each other over great distances to combine our ideas. These efforts will help establish the bases of partnerships for reconstruction...
Some people may celebrate Jan. 26, 2010, at Sri Lanka's first post-civil war presidential election - the island nation ended the 26-year-long conflict last May - but the advent of the poll has brought out deep tension, division and several alarming incidents of violence. "There is this foreboding sense that things could turn really bad," Keerthi Thenakoon, the chief executive of the election-monitoring body Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), told TIME. "It is like sitting on a dynamite pile that is giving off sparks...