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World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize for hunger fight

October 9, 2020

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting hunger and seeking to end its use as “a weapon of war and conflict” at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to the brink of starvation.

Announcing the prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said it wished “to turn the eyes of the world towards the millions of people who suffer from or face the threat of hunger.”

The committee also said it hoped that bestowing the prize on the U.N. agency would highlight the need to strengthen global solidarity and cooperation in an era of go-it-alone nationalism.

“We are sending a signal to every nation who raises objections to international cooperation,” committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen said. “We are sending a signal to this type of nationalism where the responsibility for global affairs is not being faced.”

The Rome-based

Broadway Icon Jennifer Holliday’s 60th Birthday Virtual Concert to Support National Affordable Housing Program

October 9, 2020

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As a part of her 60th birthday celebration, Broadway’s Original Dreamgirl has partnered with AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition (BLACC) to produce a 2-hour virtual concert event that will support the Healthy Housing Foundation

In recognition of her 60^th birthday, Broadway’s original Dreamgirl, Jennifer Holliday, has partnered with AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and the Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition (BLACC) to produce a 90-minute virtual concert event, scheduled for Monday, October 19, 2020, starting at 8:00pm (EST). Tickets, which can be purchased at stellartickets.com, are $20 and $60 for VIP tickets, which includes a virtual meet & greet. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Healthy Housing Foundation, and their critical work in helping individuals and families move from homelessness to housing and providing truly accessible affordable housing for low-income families.

Joined by a six-piece band, Holliday will perform hits from the musical

UAB launches tele-mentoring program for health care providers on substance use disorder – News

October 9, 2020

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Project ECHO links medical professionals with an expert in a particular field in an interactive video format to boost learning and, ultimately, patient care.

wallace 2 UAB Medicine will launch a series of innovative online learning experiences for health care providers on the subject of opioid use disorder. This unique tele-mentoring program links medical experts with other providers throughout the state. Called Project ECHO, or extension of community health care outcomes, the goal is to foster interactive collaboration in case-based learning to improve patient care.

“Project ECHO uses recent advances in technology and video teleconferencing to replicate the learning experiences most health care providers had as students or residents,” said Eric Wallace, M.D., medical director of UAB Medicine’s eMedicine program. “It allows an expert in a field to impart important lessons to potentially large numbers of health care providers at one time.”

Wallace describes Project ECHO as a kind of virtual

Nobel Peace Prize: U.N. World Food Program Wins 2020 Award

October 9, 2020

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The World Food Program was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat a surge in global hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has swept around the world with devastating impact.

The Nobel committee said that work by the organization, a United Nations agency, to address hunger had laid the foundations for peace in nations ravaged by war.

“In the face of the pandemic, the World Food Program has demonstrated an impressive ability to intensify its efforts,” Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said as she announced the prize in Oslo. “The combination of violent conflict and the pandemic has led to a dramatic rise in the number of people living on the brink of starvation,” she added.

In many nations, particularly those at war, the combination of conflict and the pandemic has sharply increased the number of people on the brink of

World Food Program Wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize | Smart News

October 9, 2020

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The World Food Program (WFP), a United Nations organization dedicated to combating conflict by addressing food insecurity around the globe, has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Announcing the win Friday, the prize committee cited the WFP’s efforts to “prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.”

In recognition of the honor, the Rome-based organization will receive a 10-million krona—about $1.1 million—cash prize. As the Associated Press reports, the WFP’s annual budget dwarfs this figure. The world’s largest humanitarian group focused on food security, it has already received about $6.4 billion in cash and goods, including more than $2.7 billion from the United States, in 2020.

Global food insecurity rates were already high at the start of this year. In 2019, a record 135 million people worldwide suffered from acute hunger—an uptick due in part to an increase in war and armed conflict. Last year, the

United Nations World Food Program wins the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2020

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Villagers collect food aid dropped from a plane in gunny bags from a plane onto a drop zone at a village in Ayod county, South Sudan, where World Food Programme (WFP) have just carried out an food drop of grain and supplementary aid on February 6, 2020.

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LONDON — The United Nations World Food Program has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger.

The world’s largest humanitarian organization was awarded the prize Friday for its “contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.”

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said the WFP had “demonstrated an impressive ability to intensify its efforts.”

“In countries such as Yemen, the Democratic Republic of

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to United Nations World Food Program

October 9, 2020

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The United Nations World Food Program on Friday was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its campaign to combat hunger around the world as well as it efforts to address surging needs amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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A woman walks past a sign at the entrance of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), in Rome, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. The WFP has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The announcement was made Friday in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Rome-based organization was rewarded for its “contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict,” said Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair

U.N.’s World Food Program is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2020

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Bags of food dropped by air from a World Food Program plane are sorted in Padeah, South Sudan. <span class="copyright">(Associated Press)</span> — Bags of food dropped by air from a World Food Program plane are sorted in Padeah, South Sudan. (Associated Press)

The United Nations’ World Food Program was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of its efforts to fight hunger across the globe.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute paid tribute to the organization “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.”

The prize committee said that 135 million people suffered from acute hunger in 2019, the most in years. The COVID-19 crisis has increased that number.

“The combination of violent conflict and the pandemic has led to a dramatic rise in the number of people living on the brink of starvation,” Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel

Newport Mental Health to create COVID-19 suicide prevention program thanks to federal grant – News – providencejournal.com

October 9, 2020

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“With the confluence of the pandemic, layoffs, racial inequity, and an election year, we’re facing tremendous uncertainty, which unfortunately also gives rise to serious behavioral issues and suicide,” Newport Mental Health president and CEO Jamie Lehane said in announcing the $800,000 grant from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration.

NEWPORT — A federal grant will allow Newport Mental Health to establish a COVID-19 Emergency Suicide Prevention program for residents of Aquidneck Island.

Although suicide statistics since the beginning of the pandemic are incomplete, most mental-health experts expect to see a rise in attempts and fatalities without aggressive intervention.

The multi-year grant,

China Joins WHO-Backed Global Coronavirus Vaccine Program

October 9, 2020

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(Bloomberg) — China is participating in a World Health Organization-backed vaccine effort, stepping in to fill a void in global health leadership created by the Trump administration.

a boy in a blue shirt: A worker in a protective suit holds a sample from a guest to test for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Beijing on September 30, 2020, ahead of a reception being held by Chinese leaders on the eve of China's National Day.

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A worker in a protective suit holds a sample from a guest to test for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Beijing on September 30, 2020, ahead of a reception being held by Chinese leaders on the eve of China’s National Day.

Beijing on Thursday joined the $18 billion Covax initiative that aspires to give lower-income countries the same access to vaccines as wealthier nations, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. Details of China’s commitment, including its amount of funding, weren’t immediately disclosed.

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“Even when China is leading the world with several vaccines in advanced stages of R&D and with ample production capacity, it still decided to join Covax,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement Friday. “We are

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World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize for hunger fight

Broadway Icon Jennifer Holliday’s 60th Birthday Virtual Concert to Support National Affordable Housing Program

UAB launches tele-mentoring program for health care providers on substance use disorder – News

Nobel Peace Prize: U.N. World Food Program Wins 2020 Award

World Food Program Wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize | Smart News

United Nations World Food Program wins the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to United Nations World Food Program

U.N.’s World Food Program is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Newport Mental Health to create COVID-19 suicide prevention program thanks to federal grant – News – providencejournal.com

China Joins WHO-Backed Global Coronavirus Vaccine Program