14754: Hermantin: AP-UM receives $2.5 AIDS research (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>


Posted on Fri, Feb. 07, 2003

UM receives $2.5 AIDS research grant for children and families
By The Associated Press

MIAMI - The University of Miami's medical school received a $2.5 million
grant Friday to support AIDS, HIV and tuberculosis research, education and
treatment in South Florida, Haiti and elsewhere.

Steven J. Green, a former ambassador to Singapore, and his wife, Dorothea,
announced the donation during a ceremony at the school.

The donation inaugurates the Green Family Foundation Initiative in Pediatric
Infectious Diseases and Immunology and International Health. The foundation
will finance research in infectious diseases, international outreach and
community education.

''This outstanding gift will allow us to make dramatic progress in fighting
children's illnesses here and in underserved parts of the world,'' said Dr.
R. Rodney Howell, chairman of the school's Department of Pediatrics.

The university's pediatrics facilities will offer medical and psychological
support to more than 300 HIV-positive children and screen 200 at-risk
infants born to HIV-infected mothers each year.

In Haiti, the foundation will train physicians and employ 60 community
health care workers for remote regions. University doctors will also work
with the nonprofit organization Project Medishare to deliver services,
supplies and tests to diagnose and treat families.






_________________________________________________________________
The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail