Thousands of people die every day from preventable, treatable diseases like AIDS, TB, and malaria.
The MMA Praxis funds invest according to Mennonite beliefs, and focus on promoting causes like AIDS prevention and stamping out predatory lending.
Most of them have suffered a fall in per capita income for the past several decades, and health problems like Aids have dramatically lowered life expectancy.
Relatively new diseases like AIDS get most of the attention, but ancient killers once thought to be under control are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America: malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis (also known as dum-dum fever).
Standing with them now is Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who has received awards from Lyme groups and late last year announced that he was investigating the Infectious Diseases Society of America, an 8, 000-member organization of doctors trained to understand diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
Vincent Tan: The main causes I support include community causes (provide aid for the poor, children, elderly folks), health causes (provide support and financial aid for treatment of diseases like AIDS, kidney ailments, cancer, free acupuncture centre), education (providing scholarships for education, and free education for underprivileged children and youth), environmental preservation (protection and preservation of coral growth), support and promotion of local performing arts, and humanitarian assistance for disaster relief.
So all these little patches are like band aids where it's been shot.
"Now I know how to sound like an AIDS specialist after just an evening surf of the Internet, " wrote Zipporah.
He is part of a movement to begin treating AIDS like an ordinary medical condition.
Gates has far more work ahead of him than he ever did at Microsoft, solving problems like malaria, AIDS and failed urban public education.
The company, long considered a core holding for the ubiquity of products like Band-Aids and its stable dividend, has seen its stock underperform the broader market under Weldon.
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Three years later Kassalow joined forces with BRAC, a global microfinance organization based in Bangladesh that hires women to sell baskets of health-related goods, like Band- Aids and aspirin.
Fam Mirza recently created 1:Face Watch, a company that commits substantial revenue from the sale of every watch to support a global initiative like water, AIDS, or cancer research, that launched on Indiegogo.
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Scientists have said that designing a bionic eye has been much more difficult than developing aids like cochlear implants for hearing, in part because visual information is two-dimensional, and because of the anatomy of the eye.
The benefits go far beyond the Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease that is diagnosed in only 600 American boys a year, to diseases like cancer and AIDS. Such drugs could even have a big effect on the muscle weakening that comes with aging.
Finally, avoid over-the-counter "alertness aids" like NoDoz and Vivarin, which are overloaded with caffeine.
The researchers need to perform a more realistic test to see if the vaccine indeed protects monkeys exposed to an AIDS-like virus.
Many states don't pay for necessities like dentures and hearing aids.
The neo-noir plot concerns Marc (Michel Piccoli), an older gangster who pulls Alex (Denis Lavant), the son of his slain cohort, into a plot to break into a laboratory and steal an AIDS-like virus, and finds his mistress, Anna (Juliette Binoche), falling for the younger man.
We are working with our partners, like those in the Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative, to launch campaigns and undertake activities aimed at increasing HIV testing and awareness among black women and black gay and bisexual men, among other groups.
Chantix, launched in May 2006, is the only drug designed specifically to combat nicotine addiction ever sold in the U.S. Previous stop-smoking aids either contain nicotine, like gums and patches, or are re-purposed antidepressants.
The espionage potential of many of the technologies in the In-Q-Tel portfolio are immediately apparent, but there are some surprises, like Sonitus Medical, which makes hearing aids that fit over the teeth and send sounds directly to the inner ear.
Hearing aids are considered elective, much like plastic surgery or liposuction.
He sees France as a defender of human rights and, while in power, Chirac has had a penchant for grand, humanitarian ideas like taxing airline tickets to raise money to fight AIDS and poverty in Africa.
Hydeia still runs into people who are afraid of her when she tells them she has AIDS. She says she was never ostracized like so many of her peers were in their early years.
She cited examples such as kefir, a sour, yogurt-like drink that is popular in Russia and that some say aids in digestion.
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That leaves net creditor nations like Brazil and China, for instance, as possible bailout aids who can add to the IMF bailout funds.
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As a group, PDPs like OneWorld Health, Medicines for Malaria Venture, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and the Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics target diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, Chagas, HIV and AIDS, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, a group of parasitic infections caused by worms.
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Few people can stir a call to action like Cole, whether it's to shop at his stores or donate to AIDS charities, says Kevin Frost, chief executive of amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
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