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For the Health of Immigrants: Pass the Refugee Protection Act

By Erin Hustings on April 2, 2010

Walked across the desert for three days, with only a canteen of water for subsistence. Arrested and severely beaten for peaceful political organizing, suffering a miscarriage and emergency hysterectomy. Left for dead by a police firing squad, then forced to hide in the wilderness for two months awaiting an opportunity to escape the country undetected.
The [...]

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Dybul: Dr. Mugyenyi Laid Groundwork for PEPFAR

By Pat Daoust, MSN, RN on March 19, 2009

Without Peter’s work, there would be no PEPFAR.

This was how Ambassador Mark Dybul (PDF), former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator,  introduced Uganda’s Peter Mugyenyi, MD, before remarks at Georgetown University yesterday.
Amb. Dybul called Dr. Mugyenyi a true hero, whose successful pioneering efforts to bring antiretroviral treatment to sub-Saharan Africa had been key to the Bush Administration’s [...]

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