Month: November 2011

The Vodafone Foundation joins the campaign “Bank of memories” of the Fundación Reina Sofía.

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La Fundación Vodafone joins the campaign “ Bank of memories ” Foundation Queen Sofía.

– “ Bank of memories ” is a virtual space for storing memories donated by anonymous and well-known faces and people in first stage of Alzheimer’s

Madrid, November 2011- Spain Vodafone Foundation has signed a collaboration agreement with the Fundación Reina Sofia, which is committed to supporting the campaign “ Bank of memories ” that the Foundation Reina Sofía carries out in order to raise awareness in society about Alzheimer’s disease.

“ Bank of memories ” is a virtual space created to keep all the memories donated by anonymous people, familiar faces and people in the first phase of the disease.

Foundation Vodafone Spain is collaborating in this project through the maintenance of the necessary technology for implementing ongoing website “ Bank of memories ”

La Fundación Vodafone Spain, in the development of its corporate purpose, has been doing an intense work of supporting those initiatives of scientificeducational and research tend to achieve greater well-being of the population, notably their most disadvantaged sectors.

The campaign “ Bank of memories ” trafficking awareness in society about the need to invest in scientific research, one of the key points that could delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and reduce the number of cases, as well as contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of those affected.

Bank of memories

campaignalso on the web, consists of various TV spots, wedges of radio and advertising in press in order to raise awareness in society of the need for research to combat the disease of Alzheimer.

Through the campaign, anyone can contribute to this initiative by donating one of his favorite memories, through a photo, a video or write a letter. They will also have the possibility of collaborating sponsoring one of memories previously donated by another person, through a sum of money that will go entirely to Alzheimer disease research.

This campaign, led by the Fundación Reina Sofía and devised by the Agency BBDO counterpoint, has counted with the collaboration of Ceafa (Confederation Española of relatives of patients of Alzheimer and other dementias), AFAL Contigo (National Association of Alzheimer’s) and one hundred Foundation (neurological diseases research center)belonging to the Ministry of science and innovation and the IMSERSO belonging to the Ministry of health and Social policy.

The Foundation Reina Sofía

The Fundación Reina Sofia, founded in May 1977, is a joint entity of charitable and cultural character without spirit of profit and of a permanent nature. Since 1994, manages and promotes numerous projects education and health, as well as social and humanitarian aid which benefited children, adults, immigrants, disabled persons and affected by natural disasters.

From 2002 to 2007, one of the main lines of action of the Foundation Queen Sofia has been Alzheimer’s project, whose main exponent is today the Queen Foundation Alzheimer Center Sofia, opened in 2007 in Vallecas, where they have carried out so far 27 research projectssix of them at the international level. It has also generated more than 60 scientific publications and 38 communications at congresses and scientific meetings.

This year, the Foundation Reina Sofia carried out, with Pasqual Maragall Foundation, various events on the occasion of the international year of the research in Alzheimer’s disease 2011, which should be among the World Summit on research in Alzheimer’s disease that was held in Madrid on 22 and 23 September in the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Madrid.

The Spain Vodafone Foundation is a private, non-profit, nature of research and of indefinite duration, under the auspices of the Ministry of education. Its objective is to contribute to the momentum of innovation and the social use of the new technologies of information and communication to improve the quality of life of people, especially of groups vulnerable and older for which develops its projects, in collaboration with institutions related with these social groupsin order to promote their integration work partner, supporting accessibility and independent living. Therefore, the Foundation Vodafone Spain projects range from support ICT training at various levels, up welfare projects or innovation in systems of videoatención, among others.

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A generation of amputees mines anti personnel seeks future in Cambodia

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Laura Villadiego

Phnom Penh, 28 nov (EFE).-mines anti-personnel landmines have made Cambodia a whole generation of amputees who are struggling sought a future in the country marked by stigma and the lack of specialized medical care and free.

Cambodia is one of the countries with the highest concentration of anti-personnel mines, with at least four million devices, which were placed during nearly three decades of war between Khmer Rouge and the different Governments.

More than 60,000 people have been victims of these explosives since 1979, according to data of the Cambodian Centre for action against mines (CMAC), which has led to one out of 290 people in the country suffered an amputation.

Most of these mutilated, many of them former soldiers, have returned to their home provinces, where they do odd jobs or are maintained by their families, although many have reformed street musicians or small merchants.

In major cities like the capital, Phnom Penh, or the tourist Siem Reap, many survive thanks to begging or selling all kinds of articles visitors foreigners.

Lonch Chhoeun clumsily walks with a homemade prosthesis made with a piece of aluminum that hides under his trousers so that nobody sees.

In Al, with little more than 20 years, stepped on a mine while struggled with Al Khmer red in the war civil that then fought against Al Government of Al general Lon Nol.

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“I heard the explosion and thought that he had been a partner.” “Then I saw my blood spattered leg and passed out,” says the robust man while he plays the deformed contours of your prosthesis.

After a brief stay in the hospital, returned to his home with his parents, in the province of Kandal, in the Centre of the country, and had to adapt to their disability to be able to find a job.

“I got a first wooden prosthesis, but cost me much walk with her.” “It was very awkward,” says the man who now earn the living fishing for his family.

Chhoeun, like many other victims of the mines, go to the rehabilitation centre of Phnom Penh’s Kien Khleang, funded by the NGO Veterans International Cambodia, one of the few that offers specialized assistance and prosthesis without any cost.

An orthopedics of middle leg, the most commonly used for the victims of mines, costs about $ 200, which means up to three months of salary in Cambodia.

In addition, prostheses must be changed every year and a half due to breakage or changes in the morphology of the patient, approximately, what is the cost out of reach of the majority of Cambodians.

Victims are also facing social rejection on the basis of disability, especially in rural communities where you live most of the amputees.

“Gradually there is a better understanding of what are disability and why occur, but still should be one greater awareness-raising work,” said Rithy Keo, director of the Center Kien Khleang.

29-Year-old Kom Somrath met the legacy of war who had lived his country when he stepped on a mine while he was looking for wood in the forest in his native province of Ratanakiri, northeast of the country.

The explosion shattered her left below-knee leg and had to spend several weeks in the hospital.

“I just think that I am even still alive.” “I have the luck,” says the young man who suffered the accident makes four years.

Somrath also goes to the Centre in Phnom Penh, while his house is over 600 kilometers, because it has no money to pay for the prosthesis and in his province, there is no care specialist.

“Now the work is much more difficult.” “Not me I can enter both in the forest, so I had to find other activities”, account.

Cambodia welcomes starting today and until 2 December, the meeting of States signatories or observers of the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines, also known as the Ottawa Treaty.

A total of 4.191 people died or were mutilated in 2010 because of anti-personnel mines throughout the world, 5 percent more than the previous year, according to a report of the international campaign for the prohibition of mines disclosed last week. EFE

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Cuba and China drive biotechnology for vaccine development

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Havana (Reuters) – Cuba and China signed Saturday a

agreement to promote biotechnology among both cooperation

Nations and promote research for the development of

vaccines.

China has injected billions of dollars in

loans to Cuba in recent years, has become in his

main creditor and its second largest trading partner after

Venezuela, which is its economic ally number one in the world.

“Cuba and China today drew its lines of work in the

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biotechnology in the next five years research

2012-2016, aimed at strengthening the Exchange in this

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discipline”, said Prensa Latina News Agency, quoting

a meeting of two days between both scientific authorities

countries.

Beijing and Havana signed an agreement between the company

china Hualan Biological Bacterial and the Finlay Institute of

Cuba, aimed at the development research of

vaccines, said the Agency.

The Minister of science, technology and environment of

Cuba, Jose Miyar Barruecos, said that “cooperation in the

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biotechnology between Cuba and China field is of a nature

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strategy”.

A Chinese diplomatic source in Havana said that more than

200 companies in his country have relations with Cuba.

And more than 20 companies and Cuban entities have been established in

Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhsen and other cities in the nation

Asian.

Beijing reported that during the last decade the Exchange

commercial bilateral increased from $ 440 million

in 2001 to 1.830 million dollars by 2010,

according to figures official.

Cuba currently produces approximately 38 medicines which are

they traded in some 40 countries.

Laboratories of the island produce vaccines against the

meningitis B and C, leptospirosis, typhoid fever and a

synthetic vaccine against haemophilus influenzae type B, the

main causes of meningitis and other infections

children’s.

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Water and land shortages threaten food security: FAO

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MILAN (Reuters) – the rapid population increase, change

climate and land degradation and water resources

possibly affect food security in the world and

they complicate the task of sustaining the population by 2050,

said Monday a body of Nations United.

The world will have to increase its grain production in

billion tons and generate 200 million tons

additional agricultural products to the year 2050, to

order to feed a population that is expected to reach the

9 billion people, considered the Organization of

United Nations food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Intense agricultural activity of the last decades has

helped millions of people suffering from famine, but

often resulted in the degradation of land and water systems of

which depends on agriculture, he indicated the entity.

“Systems at risk simply might not be able to

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contribute as expected to meet the demands

human by 2050. The consequences in terms of famine

and poverty are unacceptable. “Actions must be taken for

remedy it now”, said Jacques Diouf, director-general of the

FAO.

A quarter of the land in the world are highly

degraded, another 8 percent have moderate levels of

degradation, while 36 percent is stable or

slightly degraded with a 10 percent improvement, said

FAO in a so-called report “State of land resource

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and water in the world for food and Agriculture”.

Water scarcity is increasing due to salinization

and the pollution of underground layers, in addition to the

degradation of ecosystems linked to water resources,

said the report.

In many large rivers, remains only 5 percent of

the volumes of water in the stream and some, like the River

Yellow of China already does not reach the sea throughout the

year. Great Lakes and inland seas have been reduced and the

half of the wetlands in Europe and North America have

disappeared, said the Agency headquartered in Rome.

The threat of famine

With the increase in competition for land and water to end

keep the food production for the industry and the

development of urban centres, the challenge of providing sufficient

food for all has never been so great, he asserted.

Almost 1 billion people suffer from malnutrition

currently, with 578 million in Asia and Africa 239

Sub-Saharan, said FAO.

In developing countries, even if you doubled the

farming by 2050 – as it is required for

feed the world – a person of every 20 would still be in

risk of malnutrition, an equivalent of 370 people

living with hunger, the majority of which would be in Africa

and Asia, said.

Agricultural production would increase more rapidly

that the population in order to improve levels of nutrition and

control the famine and food insecurity, he said the

FAO.

This should occur mostly on current Earth

agricultural improvements from a sustainable intensification

to use the land and water efficiently, without prejudice to

the ecosystems.

There have been signs of a slowdown in production

agriculture in several areas of the world, where the activity has been

dropped to 50% with respect to the green revolution

the decades of 1960 and 1970, when agriculture was

driven by intensive practices and new varieties of

seeds.

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HIV positive teachers call on China to end discrimination

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Beijing (Reuters) – three aspiring school teachers called on Chinese, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, an end to discrimination against people with HIV after noting that they were denied jobs as teachers since their employers found that they had the virus that causes AIDS.

The petition, sent on Monday by e-mail to the Office of Legislative Affairs of the Council of State, is a test for the promise to china to promote the enactment of the law.

The three signatories began trials separately against their local governments once provincial educational Council rejected their applications to put teachers since its compulsory blood tests revealed that they are HIV-positive.

These rejections occurred even when applicants had passed the written test and the labor. interviews

The three men hoped to persuade the Court that a law of five-year-old supposed that it protects the rights of people with HIV should be superior to the local regulations to prevent the recruitment of staff infected with the virus.

Two Chinese courts failed against the two men who had begun proceedings against Governments of Anhui and Sichuan 2010.

In the third trial, in Guizhou, the judge said the plaintiff in October that the cuts will “not accept the trial and that the plaintiff should ask local government it resolved”, he told Reuters Yu Fangqiang, whose organization headquartered in Nanjing, Tianxia Gong, advocates for people with HIV.

“We know that in a country like China has 1.3 billion people, 740,000 people infected with HIV is just a small portion of the population,” instructs the request of teachers that Reuters had access.

The claims in defence of the rights of persons with HIV tend to be neglected by the widespread fear, added the letter.

“But we also know that adherence to the laws of the country and the fairness of these people is the spirit of the nation and the backbone of the modernization of the country,” said the letter.

“Every citizen and every Chinese Department will certainly benefit from this and will not be subject to the threat of unlawful deprivation of their legitimate rights and interests,” he added.

To Beijing first cost him much recognize the problem of HIV/AIDS in the early 1990s and began to look after him when hundreds of thousands of poor farmers in rural Henan province contracted the infection by harmful blood selling schemes.

But since then, the Government has increased its efforts against AIDS, allocating more funds to prevention programmes, launching schemes to provide universal access to antiretroviral drugs to contain the disease and introducing policies to put an end to the discrimination.

The major route of transmission of the virus in the Asian giant is currently the contact sex.

In a country where taboos surrounding sex remain very strong and where the debate on the subject is very limited, people living with HIV/AIDS indicate that they are stigmatized.

Yu said that discrimination against people with HIV, especially in the recruitment of civilian personnel, is “still a very big problem”.

People living in China with HIV and AIDS often are denied medical care in major hospitals because of the fear and ignorance about the disease, according to a study published by the international labour (ILO) Organization, part of United Nations.

The petition, which was sent to the Government Office that helps to check and monitor the implementation of laws, comes shortly before the commemoration of the international day to combat AIDS, the December 1.

(Published in Spanish by Ana Laura Mitidieri)

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips