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Sun., May 21
International AIDS Candlelight
Memorial
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On Sunday, May 21, 2006,
thousands of communities around the world will come together in solidarity
and light candles to remember those who have been affected by HIV/AIDS.
For more information, go to International
AIDS Candlelight Memorial Campaign. |
May 30 - June 2
33rd Annual International
Conference on Global Health
Washington, DC
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The Global Health Council
(GHC) holds its annual conference in Washington, DC; this year's theme
is "Excellence, Innovation and Influence: Pathways to Results."
For more information, visit the GHC
conference website. |
April 1 - 2
Empowering Communities
to Bridge Health Divides
Yale University
New Haven, CT
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Unite for Sight's Third Annual International Health Conference
will convene more than 800 people throughout the world who are interested
in international service, global health, public health and medicine.
This conference brings together student leaders, activists, doctors,
public health professionals, nurses, Peace Corp Volunteers and others
to inform the public about health divides, and to empower people
to develop solutions to improve access to care for the underserved.
For more information, visit the Unite
for Sight conference page.
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April 3 - 9
National Public Health
Week
"Designing Healthy Communities, Raising Healthy Kids"
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The American Public Health Association
(APHA) celebrates their 11th National Public Health Week with
the focus on children's health and the environment. Celebrations
will concentrate on how well-built communities with healthy homes,
walkable streets and safe neighborhoods can improve the health of
children.
For more information, go to APHA:
National Public Health Week.
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April 4 - 7
Preventing Mortality from
Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) in Africa
Entebbe, Uganda
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Severe bleeding after childbirth is the largest cause of maternal
mortality, accounting for at least one-quarter of maternal deaths
worldwide. In Africa, postpartum hemorrhage, or PPH, contributes
to an even higher proportion of maternal mortality.
The goal of this conference is to advance programming in African
countries to prevent and treat PPH, and to reduce maternal mortality
75% by 2015.
For more information, visit the ACCESS
conference page.
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Fri., April 7
World Health Day
Sat., April 8
10 am - 2 pm
Community Health Fair
Rutland Regional Fieldhouse
Rutland, VT
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In conjunction with World
Health Day, join Vermont Public Television, Rutland Regional
Medical Center and other community partners at the Community Health
Fair in Rutland.
The fair will provide free workshops, screenings and advice; raise
awareness about local and global efforts to improve health; and
educate the community about local health resources.
For more information, contact Rutland Regional Medical Center at
802-772- 2400.
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Mon., April 10
5 pm
Rutland Regional Medical
Center Annual Meeting
Paramount Theater
Rutland, VT
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Rutland Regional Medical Center
will hold its annual community meeting on Pandemic Viruses. Dr.
Nils Daulaire, President and CEO of the Global
Health Council, will keynote the evening.
The meeting is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Rutland Regional Medical Center at
802-772-2400.
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Wed., April 12
8 - 10 pm
Rx for Survival:
The Heroes
April 19 - 20
Crossroads in Global Health:
The Double Burden of Infectious and Chronic Diseases
Toronto, Canada
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Each year the Global
Health Education Consortium (GHEC) hosts an annual event that
brings together students, faculty and practioners of global health.
The topic for this year, the 15th annual conference, is the dual
challenge worldwide of infectious and chronic diseases.
For more information, visit the GHEC
conference page.
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April 23-26
Microbicides 2006
Cape Town, South Africa
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This biannual conference about Microbicides, a promising HIV prevention
technology, brings together hundreds of delegates from around the
world.
For more information about the conference, visit Microbicides
2006 conference page.
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Wed., March 22
World Water Day
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Water is a basic requirement
for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from,
and competition among, users. In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated
March 22 of each year as the World Day for water.
For more information, visit the World
Water Day webpage. |
Fri., March 24
World Tuberculosis Day
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In 1982, the World Health
Organization (WHO) designated March 24th — the date in 1882 when
Dr. Robert Koch presented his discovery of the tuberculosis (TB) bacillus
to a group of doctors in Berlin — as a day to draw attention
to the rising rates of TB around the world and to the crisis of multi-drug
resistant strains of the disease.
For resources and more information about TB, visit the Center
for Disease Control (CDC): World TB Day page. |
Thurs., Feb. 2
9 am - 2 pm
American Red Cross Blood
Drive
Colchester, VT
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Vermont Public Television
(VPT) hosts the American Red Cross Blood Drive at the VPT Studios,
204 Ethan Allen Avenue, Colchester. Free long-sleeved shirt for every
donor!
For information about other dates and locations to donate blood in
Vermont, click here. |
Feb. 10 - 13
Student Campaign for Child
Survival National Conference
Washington, DC
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Public health and advocacy
experts address student campaigners on pressing global justice and
child survival challenges, with a focus on orphans and vulnerable
children. Topics to be discussed include: neonatal health, malnutrition,
development aid, debt cancellation and success stories in global health.
Participants will be equipped with skills to promote international
children's health through media work, campus events and direct lobbying
for elected officials.
For more information about the conference or to register, go to Student
Campaign for Child Survival. |
Feb. 12 - 16
The Impact of Global Issues
on Women and Children
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Individuals from different
fields — anthropologists, scientists, ecologists, environmentalists,
health economists, human rights activists, information technologists,
lawyers, midwifes, nurses, nutritionists, physicians, politicians,
sociologists and social workers — from all over the world come
together to discuss how globalization affects women and children.
The key goals of the conference are to:
- Identify the internal and external influences that reduce the
quality of life of targeted risk populations.
- Discuss the global issues that adversely affect the health and
well-being
of women and children.
- Describe interventions used to promote health and prevent illness
in women and children.
- Analyze methods that interdisciplinary health care providers
can implement collaboratively to positively impact the life and
health of women and children.
- Assess the social burden of communicable and infectious diseases,
including hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
- Explore adolescent health issues and gender preferences as determinants
of public health.
For more information about the conference or to register, visit the
conference
website. |
Jan. 22 - 25
Arab Health 2006
Dubai
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Arab
Health is the largest health care exhibition in the Middle East.
It attracts large numbers of participants from the global health care
community to make it one of the world's leading health care events.
Arab Health has been hosting health care conferences and exhibitions
for the past 31 years.
For more information, visit www.arabhealthonline.com. |
Thurs., Dec. 1
World AIDS Day
"STOP AIDS — KEEP THE PROMISE"
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UNAIDS
, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, estimates that at
the end of 2004, there were 37.2 million adults and 2.2 million children
living with HIV. During that year, 4.9 million people became newly
infected with the virus. About half of all people who become infected
with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they
are 35.
The AIDS epidemic has been one of the world's major health crises
for the past two decades. Millions of people have been infected across
the globe and millions have died. Costs to cope with the spread of
HIV have crippled health services. Poor countries have had to face
the epidemic with little or no resources.
Governments must take action. Please get involved locally and campaign
to stop AIDS. For more information, go to Vermont
CARES. |
Sat., Dec. 3
International Day of Disabled
Persons
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The annual observance
of the International
Day of Disabled Persons aims to promote an understanding of disability
issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being
of persons with disabilities. It also seeks to increase awareness
of the gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities
into every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.
For ideas of what you can do in observance of this day, click
here. |
Mon., Dec. 5
International Volunteer
Day
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International Volunteer
Day provides an opportunity for volunteer-involving organizations
and individual volunteers to work together on projects and campaigns
promoting their contributions to economic and social development at
local, national and international levels.
For more information about volunteerism, see the World
Volunteer Web. To find volunteer opportunities in Vermont, go
to the Network
for Good: Volunteer Search. |
Sat., Dec. 10
Human Rights Day
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Human Rights Day is marked every year on
10 December with activities led by the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva,
New York and at the field presences.
"Human rights are our common heritage
and their
realization depends on the contributions that each and
every one of us is willing to make, individually and
collectively, now and in the future."
—Louise Arbour
UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Wed., Dec. 21
8 pm
Improving Children's Health
Locally and Around the World:
A VPT Public Square Special
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This VPT Public Square
special, Improving Children's
Health Locally and Around the World, includes taped highlights
of the November 2005 symposium hosted by Vermont Public Television
and the Global Health Council in partnership with the Vermont Global
Health Collaborative to address local and global children's health
issues.
Susan
Dentzer, health correspondent from The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer moderates the panel discussion. Bridget
Barry Caswell hosts. The panelists include:
- Dr. Nils Daulaire, President & CEO, Global Health Council
- Dr. Lewis First, Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, University
of Vermont College of Medicine; Chief of Pediatrics, Vermont Children's
Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care
- Thato Ratsebe, Citizen of Botswana, Journalism Student, St.
Michael's College
- Emmanuel Lusenge Siriwayo, Founding Member, Association of Africans
Living in Vermont
- Dr. Donald Swartz, Director of Health Improvement, Vermont Department
of Health
- Dr. Nilgun Tapucu, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
University of Vermont College of Medicine, and Fletcher Allen
pediatrician
Public Square is a VPT
initiative addressing issues of concern to Vermonters. Mixing documentary
footage, thoughtful insight, in-depth panel discussions and more,
we’ll keep you informed about local events and issues that affect
your lives. |
Tues., Nov. 1
Special Edition of TIME
Magazine
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TIME Magazine
publishes a special report on global health in all worldwide editions. |
Tues. - Thurs.
Nov. 1 - 3
9 - 11 pm
Rx for Survival: A
Global Health Challenge
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Series premier! Filmed in more than 20
countries, this series — part of the pioneering
multimedia project of the same name — explores how lack of
basic health care leaves many impoverished countries plagued by preventable
diseases. Click
here for episode descriptions. |
Tues. - Thurs.
Nov. 1 - 3
TIME Magazine Summit
on Global Health
New York, NY
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TIME
Global Health Summit, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, will bring together influential leaders in medicine, government,
business, public policy and the arts to develop actions and solutions
to the world's health crises. |
Fri., Nov. 4
8:30 - 10 pm
NOW Global Health
Special
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Building on the three-night groundbreaking PBS
special Rx for Survival: A Global Health
Challenge, NOW
presents a two-part program that looks at U.S. global health policy
to assess where it has been and what the future holds.
In part one, NOW's David Brancaccio takes on the latest news about
global health issues in a long-form interview with former President
Jimmy Carter. In part two (at 9 pm), NOW examines the U.S.'s HIV/AIDS
policy from its beginning in the early 1980s through President Bush's
historic plan, announced in 2003, to spend $15 billion treating people
with HIV/AIDS around the world. |
Mon., Nov. 14
World Diabetes Day
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World
Diabetes Day was established by the International Diabetes Federation
(IDF) and World Health Organization (WHO) in 1991 with the aim of
coordinating diabetes advocacy worldwide. Since then, it has become
the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes community.
This year, the focus is on diabetes and foot care. The campaign targets
people with diabetes and those in a position to influence and improve
their health care. |
Tues., Nov. 15
A Vermont Public Television Event
Yours, Mine and Ours:
Improving Children's Health Locally and Around the World
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In conjunction with the groundbreaking PBS series Rx
for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, VPT is hosting an evening
of discussion and dialogue on the theme of children's health, uniting
the challenges we face together, both here in Vermont and around
the world.
The moderator will be Susan Dentzer, Health Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer.
Panelists include: Dr. Nils Daulaire, President & CEO, Global
Health Council; Dr. Lewis First, Chief of Pediatrics, Vermont Children's
Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care; Thato Ratsebe, citizen of
Botswana and journalism student at St. Michael's College; Emmanuel
Lusenge Siriwayo, founding member of the Association of Africans
Living in Vermont; Dr. Donald Swartz, Director of Health Improvement,
Vermont Department of Health; and Dr. Nilgun Tapucu, Clinical Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Vermont.
This event will be featured on a VPT
Public Square Special scheduled to air in December.
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For more information: Contact Elizabeth
Ottinger or Thato Ratsebe. |
Sun., Nov. 20
Universal Children's
Day
Tues., Oct. 4
National Child Health
Day
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National Child Health Day is an annual observance
that dates back to 1928. Celebrated on the first Monday in October,
it is intended to focus attention on issues related to children's
development and well-being. |
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For more information: Call the US Health Resources and Services
Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau at 301-443-0205. |
Thurs.,
Oct. 13
Global Health Preview
St. Michael's College, Alliot Lobby
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
4:30 - 6:30 pm
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The Global Health Preview
is an information table promoting awareness of children's health issues
and the PBS
prime-time series airing on VPT, Nov. 1 - 3, 2005. The
television series examines the most critical and emerging threats
to global public health and chronicles the leaders who deliver the
goods, regardless of the circumstances around them. Tools on how people
can help will be provided at the table. |
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For more information: Contact Thato Ratsebe at tratsebe@vpt.org
or 802-654-2110. |
Sun., Oct. 16
World Food Day
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of
the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on October
16th, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945. The theme
for 2005 is "Agriculture and Intercultural Dialogue." |
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For more information: Go to FAO
World Food Day. |
Mon., Oct. 24
"Rx for Survival"
Book Hits Stores
Fri., Oct. 28
"Before the Big Night"
Party
(Exclusively for St. Michael's students)
St. Michael's College, Canterbury Great Room
8 - 10 pm
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Students get the opportunity to view an episode
of the PBS
prime-time series before the series airs in November. |
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For more information: Contact Thato Ratsebe at tratsebe@vpt.org
or 802-654-2110. |
Sat., Oct. 29
NPR Begins Week of
Global Health Coverage
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