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After Five-Day Silence, Haiti Reports 40 Percent Increase in Cholera Cases
The number of reported cholera deaths in Haiti has hit 442, the Haitian health ministry announced late Wednesday, and the number of cases has surged to 6,742, a more than 40 percent increase since Friday.
The news ends a five-day silence from Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population, which had stopped issuing its daily reports on cholera cases and deaths.
The ministry attributed its silence to public holidays on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. But several on the ground mentioned yesterday that the ministry’s reluctance to release information could be linked to the government’s unwillingness to expose the depth of the problem in the days leading up to the Nov. 28 presidential contest.
“There’s a tremendous correlation on how the …
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:05 pm
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Posted on November 3, 2010 at 2:33 pm
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Members-Only Discount on Fashion for Action Tickets!
Housing Works Members get 25% off Fashion for Action 2010 ticket purchases!
For questions or to purchase tickets by phone, please contact:
Lily Acunzo
membership@housingworks.org
347-473-7457Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:11 pm
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Membership Looks Good On You!
Only Housing Works Members get benefits at Fashion for Action and get in free to The NYC Spelling Bee at the Bookstore.
Support our services for low-income and homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and get exclusive benefits!
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:48 pm
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Team Housing Works
Housing Works is an official Charity Partner for the 2011 New York City Half-Marathon! If you are interested in gaining guaranteed entry to the race by running for Team Housing Works, please contact:
Dan Wilson
d.wilson@housingworks.org
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Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:15 pm
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November at Housing Works Bookstore: Jeffrey Lewis, Suzanne Vega, Julie Powell, Spelling and Zines!
Tonight! Learn about comics, photography, and design with Kickstarter. Tomorrow! The Lowbrow Reader hosts comedy and music including Jeffrey Lewis and Hess Is More. Friday! Relive or redeem your grade school humiliations, but with beer! Plus, there are still tickets for Suzanne Vega and Dawn Landes. Buy them here. Or come for sales, slams, mosques, music writing, foodie fun, zines and more, all month long.
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:58 pm
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When Is the “Right Time” to Fight AIDS?
POZ editor-in-chief Regan Hofmann reprimanded AIDS activists yesterday for choosing the weekend before an election to launch an Obama protest. But Housing Works CEO and President Charles King strongly disagrees—and thinks it’s critical to explain why.
I greatly admire the work done at POZ, and in particular the high-profile efforts of my friend Regan Hofmann in the fight against AIDS. When I read her recent blog harshly criticizing activists (myself included), who protest at supposedly inopportune political times, I felt obligated to respond. Regan, you asked your readers what they think. Here it is:
With all due respect, I disagree with you on three fronts.
First, I disagree that the Democrats are our allies, and that …
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 7:31 pm
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Harsh Words for Architect of Obama’s Global Health Policy
This week AIDS activists are mired in debate about whether the election season is the “proper” time to criticize President Obama’s global AIDS strategy. In the midst of it all, activist Gregg Gonsalves has written a powerful essay criticizing Zeke Emanuel, the chief architect of the president’s global health policy.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has had a long career in bioethics, since 1997, as the chair of the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and before that as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Currently, he is a special advisor to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the White House.
Sadly, Dr. Emanuel became the target of right-wing commentators …
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 3:48 pm
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