“Brother David, how’s your soul?” The question took me by surprise. It was time for my first advisement meeting with my residency
Last week, Brookings Metro’s Joseph Parilla and the Fund for Our Economic Future’s Brad Whitehead noted that money from the new American Rescue Plan Act (ARP)—the $1.9 trillion federal COVID-19 relief package—represents an opportunity for state and local officials to “invest” in their communities rather than simply “spend” their significant allotments.
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The aim of the UN-backed COVAX scheme is to get two billion vaccine doses into the arms of around a quarter of the population of poorer countries by the end of 2021.
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Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with faithful sitting far apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter Sunday conditioned by pandemic precautions.
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In 2021, the Orange Foundation crosses the milestone of 30 years of mobilization in raising awareness of autism, facilitating social integration and enabling better care for people with autism spectrum disorders and their families.
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A group of world leaders have joined the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in calling for an international treaty to improve pandemic preparedness and response in the wake of COVID-19, for the sake of future generations.
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The report from a team of international scientists assembled by the World Health Organization (WHO) to examine how COVID-19 first spread to humans was published on Tuesday, and was described by the UN health agency’s chief as a welcome start, but far from conclusive.
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Establishing methods for refrigerated vaccine transportation and contributing toward improving the rate of vaccine use in developing countries
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Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), today announced it has supported the NHS’ Cheshire and Merseyside consortium [1] to become the first regional hub supplying the United Kingdom’s National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID).
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A new report from the UN agency dedicated to ending HIV and AIDS ( UNAIDS) has shown that investing $29 billion a year to HIV response in low and middle income countries by 2025, will put the world back on track to eradicate the virus as a public health threat by 2030.
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Staff at Mario Dimitri’s trading company Green Anchor Group Ltd. used to spend much of their time on the road, moving from city to city and factory to factory, searching for companies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that make the machinery and other heavy industry products needed by their international clients.
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