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More APHA Blog Coverage
Other than myself and the official APHA meeting blog, some other folks are covering the Annual Meeting in Denver:
John Schrom, an epidemiologist based in Minneapolis who focuses on HIV/AIDS, is sharing his experience on his blog.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a special blog dedicated to the meeting.
Dirty Words: Save the Children’s “Dirty Word of the Week” Video series highlights sanitation and hygiene conditions at schools in developing countries
With the explosive growth of social media, these days it seems that every non-profit and NGO has its own blog, Twitter handle, YouTube account, and Facebook page, with some even venturing into Tumblr, MySpace, and Flickr (if you have never heard of these, don’t worry – I barely even know what Flickr is). One organization has done something pretty nifty (at least, I think so) with their YouTube account, though: Save the Children, which works in the U.S. and 41 other countries providing humanitarian relief, education, and other services to children, features a weekly video series called “Dirty Words.” These videos, narrated by its Director of School Health and Nutrition, Seung Lee, are 2-5 minutes long and highlight the water, sanitation and hygiene conditions at schools in developing countries, with simple solutions to address them. This week’s “dirty word” is worms – the video below shows a school in Nepal which has begun a program to provide de-worming medicines and iron to improve the health of the students.
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Thanks to Jennifer Segal, blogger at Endtheneglect.org, for bringing the series to my attention in her post on October 12.
KFF Video Explains Health Care Reform
The Kaiser Family Foundation has made an animated video that explains the health care reform law in plain language. Narrated by Cookie Roberts, a news commentator for ABC News and NPR, this nine-minute video goes over public opinion about the legislation and what will be done in its two main phases. It is fairly balanced and clears up a lot of confusion (in my opinion). The video can be seen on the KFF website here, and there is also a PDF transcript of the narration.
XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna this Week
The XVIII International AIDS Conference, put on by the International AIDS Society, is being hosted in Vienna from July 18-23. It is a place where HIV/AIDS scientists, policy makers, public health professionals, and other interest groups can gather to discuss the most current and relevant topics in HIV prevention and treatment.
The official conference webpage: http://www.aids2010.org/Default.aspx?pageId=160
Follow the conference on Twitter: http://twitter.com/aids2010
The Global Health Council’s blog series dedicated to the conference: http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/aids_conference_blog/
Kaiser Family Foundation is the official webcaster for the event. Visit their page dedicated to the conference here: http://globalhealth.kff.org/AIDS2010
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