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Title: EVENT: Tales From the Horn: Somalia's Struggle for Health Care
Post by: Admin on March 22, 2009, 12:48:01 PM
Tales From the Horn: Somalia's Struggle for Health Care
Sunday, April 19, 2009
9am- 5pm


Why attend the conference?
 Learn about health issues currently facing the Somali people in their home country.
 Hear about Somali use of the American Health Care system.
 Get information about becoming involved with international health.
 Learn about the impact of war on mental health.
 and much more!

Where?!
University of Minnesota, Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN
55455
Tickets: $25
Contact nasra.gia@gmail.com or 507.202.3935
Or www.pushforbettercare.org (http://www.pushforbettercare.org)
for a sales representative near you
"The situation is very severe. It is the most pressing humanitarian emergency in the world today -- even worse than Darfur.? - UN High Commission of Refugees

WITH PRESENTATIONS BY:
Diane Dupois
Minnesota International Health Volunteers
Dr. Alan Lifson
HIV/AIDS in East Africa
Huda Farah
Elizabeth Latham
UNDP
Dr. Joan Patterson
The Impact of War on Mental Health
Dr. Kathleen Call
Somalis Use of the Health Care System
Dr. Abdirahid M. Shire
Hepatitis B & C infection in Somali Populations
Wafa Nuradin & Samiya Abdi
Malaria, Somalia and the Missing Links