The "speed" at which a virus can appear to spread is astounding. Take the H1N1 (Swine Flu) virus as an example. We heard about it in reports from Mexico and soon we saw the first confirmed case in New York City. In the same week, five more cases were announced, then 21 cases, then a whole school was shut down, and then five schools in New York were closed, all in the same month.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Communities | Health | Welfare | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Nov 17, 2009

New York, NY, November 10, 2009--More than $1.8 million in "mission opportunity grants" were approved or confirmed by directors of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries at their annual meeting in Stamford, Connecticut, in mid-October.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Education | Finance | Health | Focus on Congregational Development | Focus on Leadership Development | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Congo DR | Japan | Middle East | Pakistan | Palestine |
Date posted: Nov 10, 2009

Disheveled children of every age and size crowded around our vehicle as it ground to a stop in front of the United Methodist Mpasa Reference Health Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was in this sprawling suburb of Kinshasa, DR Congo, that I was to assess health facilities for the Central Congo Conference. Dr. Rebecca Yohadi, the conference's Chief Medical Officer, told me that the Mpasa suburb sprang up in 1998 near a military installation as a camp for displaced persons and refugees.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Conflict | Health | Hunger | Poverty | Violence | Women | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Congo DR |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

"What we need is not more words, but action!" proclaimed Bishop Kainda Katembo, episcopal leader for the South Congo Episcopal Area, as he spoke some years ago about the AIDS crisis in Africa. Thankfully, United Methodists heard that plea and have been responding in profound ways.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Health | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | Africa | Congo DR |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

For more than 12 years, the Comprehensive Health Program of the Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches in Latin America and the Caribbean (CIEMAL) has been focusing on the church's response to health issues confronting Latin American and Caribbean communities.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: AIDS/HIV | Children | Education | Health | Women | Youth | Focus on Global Health | Caribbean Islands | Latin America |
Date posted: Nov 01, 2009

Columbia, South Carolina, October 23, 2009-- Major portions of the seventh national "summit" of Communities of Shalom, a movement of faith- inspired community development, will be broadcast live from its meeting site in Columbia, South Carolina, October 31.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Christian love | Health | Immigration | Poverty | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Oct 26, 2009

Presentation by Alyce Wellons, LCSW, for Faith Partners Addictions Ministry, January 20, 2009, Heritage Hall
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Education | Family | Health | Welfare | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Oct 06, 2009

Incidents of violence and substance abuse occur on a daily basis. There is a correlation between alcohol and violence, although there is not a direct cause and effect. Substance abuse does not cause violence, and substance abusers do not necessarily commit violent acts. By the same token, substance abuse treatment cannot cure violence.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Family | Health | Violence | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Sep 23, 2009

The third article in a series on substance- abuse issues for National Recovery Month focuses on young people.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Communities | Family | Health | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Sep 18, 2009

The month of September launches a yearlong global awareness campaign, sponsored by the United Methodist Special Program on Substance Abuse and Related Violence (SPSARV), to encourage United Methodists to gain a better awareness about alcohol and drug addictions in our congregations and communities, and to create a supportive environment for people struggling with addictions and for their families.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Family | Health | Focus on Global Health |
Date posted: Sep 03, 2009

Each year 18,000 people in the United States die prematurely from preventable disease. Poverty and unequal access to life-saving drugs and medical care have made death itself a social disease in the country. Our health-care system is broken; many proposals for fixing it are being put forth. Citizens are rallying at the state level and meeting with legislators to demand change.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Health | Poverty | United Methodist Church | Women | Focus on Global Health | United States |
Date posted: Aug 20, 2009

On Aug. 19, President Obama will participate in a live webcast call-in aimed at the faith community. Faith leaders in the 40-minute discussion will include three United Methodist pastors.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Health | Justice | Poverty | Focus on Global Health | United States |
Date posted: Aug 20, 2009