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CHECK OUT THE NEW UPCOMING EVENTS ON GLOBAL HEALTH. 

Check out our club updates and ways to get involved. 

In the News:
Locally:

 

Organization Spotlight!:  PreventionWorks!

PreventionWorks! was established in October 1998 to provide needle exchange and other harm reduction services in the District of Columbia. The mission of PreventionWorks! is to curb the spread of HIV and other blood-borne diseases among injecting and other drug users, their sexual partners, and newborn children.

PreventionWorks! incorporated after the U.S. Congress passed legislation forbidding both the District of Columbia from using its local funds to support needle exchange services and private organizations that receive any federal funds from operating a needle exchange program, even if funded with private donations. As a result of the ban, Whitman-Walker Clinic, which had received DC government funds to operate a needle exchange program, ceased operations of its program. The law has since been changed to allow publicly funded organizations to use private funds to contribute to needle exchange.

 

Watch a video with one of our students: here.


Globally:

Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria 
10 October 2007

 

Nigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a vaccine-derived form of polio, says the UN's World Health Organization. 
 

It says 69 children in the north have caught the paralysing disease from others who had already been immunised.

The WHO says such rare outbreaks have occurred where immunisation campaigns did not reach enough of the population...(more)


 


Photo by Sarah Day

At George Mason:

  Please join us as GCH participates in the Annual GMU Health and Fitness Expo. From rock climbing to blood pressure screenings this event is fun-filled with excitement! In addition to the great giveaways, our department and your very own Global Health Students Beyond Borders will be representing your college. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this two day free event!

For further information please visit the website links below in addition to our GCH event flyer attached to this message.
http://hfe.gmu.edu/
http://chhs.gmu.edu/gch/

 

Epidemiology Certificate NOW AVAILABLE

Find out more here.

   Photo by Sarah Day

 

Come join us for our meetings.  Check out our events page for more information.  We are a new organization, and any professional or graduate student is welcome to help us make a difference!

 

 

 

Come find us at George Mason University and visit the Department for Global and Community Health.

Global Health Students Beyond Borders
4400 University Drive, MSN 5B7
Fairfax, VA 22030
www.studentsbeyondborders.org
 
or contact us through this site!

Photo by Sarah Day