The NILE African Development organisation (NAD) wishes to invite everone to tell their stories about Africa of which we shall be able to air some of them in our Radio program Africa Matters.
"Fantsuam Foundation is laying on a local event to mark the day. It will raise awareness, provide free screening for 500 children under 5 years of age, and distribute folic acid and multi-vitamins. This is the first time ever for people around Kafanchan to receive free screening for sickle cell disease. Fantsuam Foundation has recruited and is training 50 volunteers to help on the day. They can screen 500, but expect up to 1000 to come forward, so there will be major crowd control challenges. Pin pricks on heels will be used to collect blood for lab analysis.
Hi Kabissa Friends,
I'm really excited to inform you that we are beta-launching our global new media site - MDGFive.com that aims to unite artists and activists for maternal health - at the Women Deliver conference next week.
The Clitoraid Campaign now has its own campaign page. You can find full details of the events leading up to the start of the campaign to the present at http://bit.ly/9okGBF
Unknown diseases affected the displaced Somali people from one person to another where there is no single person not affected, while the doctors did know what the disease is but they said it is skin disease.
I received the following tweet today from @Forumone:
Forum One is hosting "Web for Global Health Roundtable" today in our Seattle office. Information: http://ow.ly/tmv8
Details pasted below. It's too late for us to participate, but in any case I wanted to share it. Forum One is a great tech company I have worked with in the past (long in the past, actually) and I am a big fan. I'm pleased to see their expansion into the Pacific Northwest.