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...reason for hope. Doctors have made remarkable progress over the past few years in the treatment of drug-resistant malaria by combining several compounds--the most powerful of which is derived from an ancient Chinese herbal remedy that cures 90% of patients in three days. Meanwhile, community groups, nonprofit organizations and governments are redoubling efforts to control the mosquitoes that cause the disease through the sale and distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and the indoor spraying of antimosquito pesticides. And after a few notably fiery fits and starts, there appears to be a real consensus among health officials about...
...Henan province Chung to, founder and director of the nonprofit Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong, is one of the few outsiders who has penetrated the state-imposed isolation of the so-called AIDS villages in central China. He is all too familiar with the plight of small children orphaned by the disease. On a recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined...
...college grads from Colorado, known as Paddle for the Presidency, are spending the summer canoeing down the entire Mississippi River. The nonprofit group is making pit stops, hoping to register 10,000 young voters by journey...
Some relocation help is available to people who move to one of the 5,700 member facilities of the American association of homes and services for the aging (AAHSA), a Washington-based group representing nonprofit nursing homes and assisted-living and continuing-care retirement communities. "We wanted to provide an affordable service to seniors to make the transition as painless as possible," says Scot Scurlock, an AAHSA vice president. A coordinator provides phone support and tracks details during a transition but is not on site for packing and unpacking...
...long as I’ve known him, he’s certainly been active in nonprofit and charitable activities, giving of his own time, giving money when he had it,” Director says. “He feels pretty strongly that it’s important to give back to the communities that have given...