Thursday, 30 March 2017

Live Webcast - "Waging Peace in Turbulent Times"

Good, please join us for the final installment of the 2016-17 Conversations at The Carter Center series.

The Carter Center - Special Events. Waging Peace Fighting Disease. Building Hope.
Tune in April 6 from 7-8:15 p.m. for "Waging Peace in Turbulent Times" to learn about the opportunities, challenges, and progress of the Center’s conflict resolution efforts in world hotspots.
Waging Peace in Turbulent Times
Date: Thursday, April 6, 2017, 7–8:15 p.m. EDT
Location: Live webcast on cartercenter.org
Cost: Free
WATCH THE WEBCAST ON APRIL 6 AT 7 P.M. »

From Latin America to Africa to the Middle East, The Carter Center is making behind-the-scenes and forward-facing contributions to peace. Hear from two of our directors — Hrair Balian of the Conflict Resolution Program and Jennie Lincoln of the Latin America and Caribbean Program — about the situation on the ground in Syria and Colombia and what The Carter Center is doing in these countries to bring an end to violent conflict.
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Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Carter Center News: March 2017

Good, thank you for following the peace and health efforts of The Carter Center. We appreciate the opportunity to stay in touch with you.

The Carter Center E-Newsletter. Waging Peace Fighting Disease. Building Hope.

 

 
Live Webcast on April 6 from The Carter Center
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Please visit our website on Thursday, April 6, 2017, 7-8:15 p.m. EDT for the next installment of Conversations at The Carter Center: "Waging Peace in Turbulent Times." Learn about about the opportunities, challenges, and progress of the Center’s conflict resolution efforts in world hotspots.
Watch the webcast on April 6 at 7 p.m. »
 

 

 
Liberia Clinicians Attend to Young Minds
The Ebola crisis, following a 14-year civil war, left children in Liberia facing a special set of post-traumatic mental health needs. Learn how Carter Center-trained clinicians are helping Liberia's youngest population.
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Carter Center Helps Women Pursue Peace in Sudan
Meet Huda Shafig. Huda is an activist working to increase the role of women in the peace process in Sudan, where The Carter Center has worked for decades on conflict resolution. With more women involved, Sudan can help end both violence and gender discrimination.
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Surgical Goal Surpassed in Ethiopia
Kelly Callahan, director of the Carter Center’s Trachoma Control Program, explains how Ethiopia's Amhara region achieved a record number of sight-saving surgeries in 2016. This life-changing, yet low-cost, surgery halts the painful condition of advanced trachoma.
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Carter Center Releases Statement on Liberia’s Voter Registration Process
A Carter Center delegation observed the voter registration process from Feb. 20-March 1, visiting 40 voter registration centers across eight of Liberia’s 15 counties.
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Hope for a Healthy Nigeria
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the most endemic country in the world for river blindness, a disease that perpetuates poverty across generations. But today there is hope. The Carter Center's river blindness program in Nigeria has been named a semi-finalist in an important grant competition.
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Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Teen Talk Newsletter - Winter 2017

Teen Talk
A Quarterly Newsletter from the Center for Young Women's Health + Young Men's Health Initiative, Boston Children's Hospital | Written by the Youth Advisors, Winter 2017


When the days are cold, overcast, and shorter, it can affect our mood. Often referred to as the "winter blues," SAD (seasonal affective disorder) can affect anyone, anywhere; however it is four times more common among women, and those who live in cold climates, far from the equator...read the full article.


Better Safe Than Sorry
When consuming food, we often forget to think about the risk of acquiring a food-borne illness. But what about being mindful about how you prepare food too? Avoiding the transmission of foodborne illness is an important part of keeping yourself and others healthy...read the full article.


Washing your hands is the easiest and best way to prevent yourself from becoming sick. Every day you touch things that many other people could have touched. You never know whether or not somebody sneezed into their hand and then wiped their sneeze infected hand on the stair railing or the faucets that you touched. That's why you should keep your hands away from your face...read the full article
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Do you have a health question that you're too embarrassed to ask? Don't worry! Submit your question - we don't ask for your name or e-mail. We choose a new question to answer each week.

You can look through all of our past questions and answers, too.
Editors: Phaedra Thomas, RN, BSN, S. Jean Emans, MD, Anna Miller, BA.

Special thanks to the Boston Children's Hospital League for their generous support of the Center for Young Women's Health and the Youth Advisory Program
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