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Letters to the editor for Dec. 5, 2008 5 Dec 2008 07:31 GMT
... non-union counterparts. The same holds true for African American and Latino workers. In fact union ... of union workers are covered by employer-provided health insurance. Slightly less that 50 percent of ... number of paid vacation days, short term disability and employment security. The reason non-union workers ...
Men are welcome as carers 5 Dec 2008 05:39 GMT
... of carers who help the elderly and disabled stay independent in their own homes. Their ... the UK two years ago from South Africa where he had worked as an actor and ... spent time caring for those with mental health problems and those who had suffered neural ...
Nana Tackles Sports 5 Dec 2008 05:39 GMT
... Handball Association, Basketball Association, Sports for the Disabled and Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC). Nana Addo, ... the youth and a contributor to the health of every community. The NPP presidential candidate ... and Hannah Afriyie were medalists on the African scene. The presidential aspirant said he believed that ...
Who's Normal? Disability, Discrimination, and HIV/Aids [opinion] 5 Dec 2008 05:39 GMT
... shares his reflections and experiences of physical disability, discrimination, and the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. Though ... university campus I use a wheelchair. In Zambia, where I was born, my first experience ... a Thousand Hills in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. I was offered a year's contract but ...
Taking HIV/Aids Campaign to the Hearing Impaired 5 Dec 2008 05:39 GMT
... Lagos — As the rate of HIV/AIDS pandemic increases, ... to prove that there is ability in disability. She expressed bitterness about the relegation of ... special people to the background by the Nigerian society. "They are children with special needs ...

Introduction to Power, Politics And Aids [column] 5 Dec 2008 05:39 GMT
... essays about the most confounding of the African pandemic's unsolved problems. The topics covered in ... persistent blind spot concerning TB and that disease's morbid attraction to HIV; a seemingly universal ... a seemingly universal ignorance about people with disabilities that places 10 per cent of the ...
Take to the Sri Lankan hills 5 Dec 2008 05:37 GMT
... Cold War, find out how one of Africa's great monuments is back home, and view the ... party in Quebec City, a mix of medical review with the shameless luxury of a ... your way through Bangkok traffic jams, the disabled volleyball championship in Cambodia and an evening ...
'I'm afraid to walk on the streets' 5 Dec 2008 05:35 GMT
... behind by sacked Umno leader Zaid Ibrahim will be inherited by premier-in-waiting Najib Abdul Razak' ... government. Who would have thought of an African-American in the White House. Can we convince ... the only regret I have is my disability to read Chinese. Fortunately, I am able ...
Who have Higher Risk of Diabetes? 5 Dec 2008 04:49 GMT
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U.S. Representatives Call for Universal Coverage at Minority-Health Conference 5 Dec 2008 04:11 GMT
... Thursday's opening reception. Dec. 4, 2008 -- Minority-health experts from around the United States have ... to affordable, high-quality health care and prevent disabilities and premature deaths, with U.S. representatives Thursday ... which is high in the Caribbean and African-American communities. The United States needs a strategy ...
What's ahead for the fractured Episcopal Church 5 Dec 2008 02:41 GMT
... and Canadian churches count more than 2.8 million members. With their increasing acceptance of homosexuality ... together. But leading conservatives, including several high-profile African archbishops, have dismissed the archbishop as a relic ... Church this year, has declared himself in "impaired communion" with female priests ordained in Pittsburgh. ...
Raising the world's IQ 5 Dec 2008 01:59 GMT
... a.m. PT RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- Travelers to Africa and Asia all have their favorite forms of ... that swell their necks, or other obvious impairments such as dwarfism or cretinism. But far ... salt, in part to help make Pakistanis healthier and more intelligent. "It will prevent people's ...
Yar'Adua inefficient in budget operation Senate 5 Dec 2008 01:31 GMT
... Written by Emmanuel Aziken, Inalegwu Shaibu & Tordue ... to blackmailing the legislature on realising its incapacity to implement the budget approved by the ... indulging his fancy. He knows as most Nigerians do that the Executive demonstrated absolute lack of ...
Cal Lutheran hosts World AIDS day 2008 5 Dec 2008 01:22 GMT
... thinking back to her time in South Africa and wondering why she was so privileged ... began when a church group went to Zambia and saw the devastation from AIDS. They ... ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability. Disparaging remarks, abusive language or obscene comments. ...
GlaxoSmithKline and The Carter Center Reaffirm Commitment to Global Public Health with Expansion of 5 Dec 2008 01:19 GMT
... GlaxoSmithKline and The Carter Center Reaffirm Commitment to ... administration program needed to achieve elimination, including Egypt and Sri Lanka; and data shows the program ... has assisted the Ministry of Health of Nigeria with providing over 22 million treatments for ...

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