Monthly Archives: February 2008
Chai with CHI: Acting on AIDS
Hey everyone! Just wanted to give a little introduction to the group I belong to before meeting you all on Friday. Acting on AIDS of Cornell is associated with the national group WorldVision in an effort to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and provide relief for children left orphaned by the disease more »
Chai with CHI: Cover Africa
Cover Africa is a student group on campus devoted to eradicating malaria. We do educational events around campus, raise funds to purchase bed nets, and recently started a new course, Entomology 410: Malaria Interventions in Ghana, that sent 11 students to Ghana to do malaria research and distribute bed nets.
AIDS Activist Speaks to C.U. About Epidemic in China
Published in the Cornell Daily Sun on February 21, 2008: By Elena Kwan “Three-time Chinese government detainee Dr. Wan Yanhai spoke to an audience in the Carl Becker dining hall on Tuesday about his continuing determination to combat AIDS.” Aid is on the way: Chinese AIDS Activist Dr. Wan Yanhai speaks about the conditions of more »
University Coalition for Global Health
The e-board members of Cornell Health International have long debated the question of national expansion — this idea of networking and collaborating with global health organizations at other universities across the nation. It turns out, though, that this endeavor is well underway by University Coalitions for Global Health (UCGH), a program hosted by the Global more »