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Paola Barahona on
December 11, 2009
There has been considerable progress since my last update on needle exchange and appropriations. The Senate-House conference committee released a 2010 spending package which includes language ending the ban on federal funding of needle exchange and doesn’t include the troubling 1,000-foot restriction that was in the original House language. After a failed attempt earlier in [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged david obey, eleanor holmes norton, josé serrano, nancy pelosi, needle exchange, new york, syringe exchange, us house of representatives, us senate, washington dc, wisconsin
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Ben Greenberg on
May 27, 2009
Zimbabwean physician Douglas Gwatidzo has collaborated with Physicians for Human Rights in investigations of his country’s health and human rights disaster. Dr. Gwatidzo is the 2009 winner of the Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights, which he will accept tomorrow evening at a special awards ceremony at the Global Health Council’s 36th Annual [...]
Posted in General Human Rights, Health, Zimbabwe
| Tagged anthrax, association françois-xavier bagnoud, cholera, douglas gwatidzo, global health council, health right international, john snow inc, jonathan mann award for health and human rights, washington dc, zadhr, Zimbabwe, zimbabwe association of doctors for human rights
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Pete Witzler on
May 7, 2009
Yesterday the lawyer for Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei filed a final appeal of their sentencing under article 18 of Iran’s Constitution. This is their last big chance to have their day in court, be acquitted of the charges and resume their lifesaving HIV/AIDS work in Iran and elsewhere.
Next week, May 12 will be an international [...]
Posted in AIDS, Colleagues at Risk, Take Action
| Tagged arash alaei, argentina, iran, iranian judiciary, kamiar alaei, malaysia, mexico, new york city, petition, thailand, turkey, Uganda, ukraine, united states, vigil, washington dc
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Jennifer Baldé on
May 4, 2009
I am pleased to invite you to a PHR training for health professionals on how to diagnose, evaluate and document the physical and psychological after-effects of torture and other severe human rights violations. This is a great opportunity to gain a thorough introduction to working with asylum seekers or to enhance your skills.
Aiding Survivors of [...]
Posted in Asylum, Custody, General Human Rights, Torture
| Tagged george washington university, school of medicine, training, washington dc
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Ben Greenberg on
April 14, 2009
Head on over to DarfuriWomen.org to watch the webcast from 8:30 to 10:00 am today (4/14), at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Physicians for Human Rights and the Nobel Women’s Initiative are holding a breakfast panel discussion featuring some of the leading experts on Sudan. The panel includes PHR’s own Karen Hirschfeld, Darfur [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Events
| Tagged chad, international campaign to ban landmines, international criminal court, jody williams, karen hirschfeld, national press club, nobel peace prize, omar al-bashir, sexual violence, sudan, washington dc
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Josephine Lee on
March 31, 2009
People are worried about Sudan. Following the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for President Omar Al-Bashir, nearly all humanitarian organizations were expelled from the country. Overcrowded refugee camps in Sudan and neighboring Chad offer little hope for the 1.1 million people now left without essential food, water and medical aid. The entire world is wondering, [...]
Posted in Conflict, Darfur, Events, Women
| Tagged chad, international campaign to ban landmines, international criminal court, jody williams, karen hirschfeld, national press club, nobel peace prize, omar al-bashir, sexual violence, sudan, washington dc
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Pat Daoust, MSN, RN on
March 17, 2009
Dr. Peter Mugyenyi told a full house at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that funding constraints are forcing health clinics in Uganda to stop enrolling any new patients in antiretroviral treatment.
At his first event in Washington, the pioneering Ugandan AIDS doctor Peter Mugyenyi painted a harrowing picture of what lies ahead in Uganda [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged capitol hill, center for strategic and international studies, health clinics, joint clinical research center, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, treatment, Uganda, us congress, washington dc
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Pat Daoust, MSN, RN on
March 16, 2009
One of the pioneers and leaders of AIDS treatment in Africa, Dr. Peter Mugyenyi, is on Capitol Hill this week to share stories about the impact of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Uganda and throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
PHR and its members played a key role in the passage of an expanded and [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged africa, center for strategic and international studies, genocide by denial, georgetown university, mark dybul, office of global aids coordinator, ogac, PEPFAR, peter mugyeni, state of the union, Uganda, us congress, washington dc
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Emily Bancroft on
March 9, 2009
At the State of the Union address in 2003, President Bush made an announcement that changed the course the global AIDS. As the first non-American to attend the State of the Union of the guest of the First Lady, Uganda AIDS pioneer Dr. Peter Mugenyi, who will join PHR in DC this month, heard [...]
Posted in AIDS
| Tagged africa, HIV/AIDS, joint clinical research center, PEPFAR, peter mugyeni, Uganda, washington dc
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