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WATCH: Mandy Moore On Prevention For World Malaria Day 2012

Posted 04.25.2012

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On World Malaria Day 2012, Mandy Moore shares a first-hand account with AOL of her visits to Cameroon, Central African Republic and Sudan, where she ...

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U.S. Foreign Health Investments Improve Lives Abroad -- And Here at Home

Mandy Moore | Posted 12.04.2011

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Mandy Moore

When people are healthy, they can be productive. They work, earn an income, and buy products -- they build their economy. It's simple and logical, but to grow economies, the basic building block of health is necessary.

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Cameroon: Send a Net, Save a Life

Mandy Moore | Posted 10.02.2011

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Mandy Moore

Malaria is responsible for over 40% of deaths in health care facilities across Cameroon. This means that thousands of children -- as well as adults -- in this West African country die each year from an easily preventable disease.

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Behind the Sex Worker

Anna Dirksen | Posted 08.10.2011

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Anna Dirksen

Thandar Oo, 33, has entirely changed the landscape for HIV-positive sex workers in Myanmar and has said numerous times that she will continue to help these women until the day she dies.

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The Challenge of Awareness Campaigns: Kenya and Infidelity

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Murphy

PlusNews Global reports on the trouble with evaluating the current campaign in Kenya to stamp out infidelity.

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ESP: Heresy or Scientific Breakthrough?

Christine Bronstein | Posted 11.17.2011

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Christine Bronstein

When a respected psychology professor presents a scientific paper attempting to prove that we somehow know what is going to happen before it does, it releases a hellfire of outrage.

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Addressing a Global Killer This World Pneumonia Day

Karl Hofmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karl Hofmann

Few Americans would guess that pneumonia kills more children than any other disease, but in many developing countries access to effective treatment is limited. So what's being done?

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On World Water Week 2010

Karl Hofmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karl Hofmann

In the time it takes you to read this post, another eight children in developing countries will have died from water-related illnesses. That, I think we can all agree, is no way to start the school year.

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President Obama: Bring Back Black

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janet Tavakoli

It's time to bring back William K. Black and resolute regulators like him. Our proposed "financial reform" bill is a sham, and the health of our society and our economy is at stake.

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Making Ripples This World Water Day

Karl Hofmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Water, The Fight for Clean Water, PSI, Water-Related Diseases, Diarrhea, Water, World News
Karl Hofmann

These days we take safe drinking water for granted. But unsafe water continues to kill -- and the numbers who die have grown to intolerable heights.

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