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  • Gates Foundation Gives Millions for Coverage of World Health

    Source: New York Times
    By DONALD G. McNEIL JR.
    Published: December 8, 2008
    A major limitation on journalists covering global health is the cost: getting to a story can mean airfare to Africa or Asia, hotels, Jeep rentals, satellite phones, translators, sometimes even armed guards.
    Meanwhile, many news organizations are cutting back.
    Now the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which [...]


  • Source: Wall Street Journal
    9/12/08
    By JEANNE WHALEN
    LONDON — The fight against malaria, one of the world’s biggest killers, has just gotten a booster.
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  • Govt boosts aid to help 'failed state' Zimbabwe: PM

    Dec 4, 2008
    LONDON (AFP) — The govenment announced 10 million pounds of emergency aid to help tackle Zimbabwe’s cholera crisis Thursday, while denouncing President Robert Mugabe as leader of a “failed state.”
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  • Measles Deaths Worldwide Fall by 74 Percent

    Source: VOA News
    By Jessica Berman
    Washington
    04 December 2008
    Health officials say aggressive efforts to vaccinate young children against measles have resulted in a 74 percent global decline in the number of deaths due to the illness. Experts say the biggest decline, 90 percent, occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
    Global health officials say that from 2000 through 2007, [...]

  • GlaxoSmithKline and The Carter Center Reaffirm Commitment to Global Public Health with Expansion of LF Program

    Source: MarketWatch
    Last update: 7:00 p.m. EST Dec. 4, 2008
    LONDON and PHILADELPHIA, Dec 04, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — - GSK CEO marks 10th anniversary of drive to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) with donation of one-billionth albendazole tablet and grant to The Carter Center
    In a meeting today with former U.S. President and founder of The Carter [...]

  • AIDS conference urges West to keep funding pledges

    Source: AFP
    3 December 2008
    DAKAR (AFP) — AIDS activists urged Western donors Wednesday to keep their pledges to a fund to fight the disease amid fears that the global financial crisis could hurt the campaign.
    “Already we are missing billions of euros in funding and the current financial crisis means that it could become more difficult to [...]

  • Essential medicines out of reach for most people

    Source: WHO Press Release
    Lack of medicines in public sector forcing patients to pay high prices, finds new study
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  • New HIV Cases Could Be Reduced By 95% With Universal Voluntary Testing And Immediate Treatment, Mathematical Model Shows

    ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2008) — Universal and annual voluntary testing followed by immediate antiretroviral therapy treatment (irrespective of clinical stage or CD4 count) can reduce new HIV cases by 95% within 10 years, according to new findings based on a mathematical model developed by a group of HIV specialists in WHO.
    Authors of the study also [...]

  • UN warns against cuts to AIDS prevention programmes

    (Adds remarks on new class of drugs, new paragraphs 9-14)
    By Stephanie Nebehay
    GENEVA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - HIV infections could surge if countries pinched by the global financial crisis cut AIDS prevention programmes, a United Nations agency said on Friday.
    Paul De Lay, a senior official at UNAIDS, said that economic turmoil was a threat to development [...]

  • Experimental TB Drug Explodes Bacteria From The Inside Out

    Source: ScienceDaily
    Nov. 28, 2008
    An international team of biochemists has discovered how an experimental drug unleashes its destructive force inside the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB). The finding could help scientists develop ways to treat dormant TB infections, and suggests a strategy for drug development against other bacteria as well.
    A report describing the research, led by [...]

  • World Bank presses aid to developing world to ease crisis

    29 November 2008
    WASHINGTON (AFP) — The World Bank Saturday urged industrialized nations to maintain aid flows to developing nations to offset an expected decline in private capital flows to emerging markets due to the credit crisis.
    “Over the past year, many developing countries have already had to cope with high food and fuel prices, and are [...]

  • UK funds for S Africa Aids fight

    By Susan Watts
    BBC Newsnight
    Aids hopes of SA’s new health minister
    The UK is to give South Africa’s new Health Minister Barbara Hogan £15m to help combat Aids in the country.
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  • UNAIDS Urges More Transparency on HIV Reporting

    Source: Voice of America (VOA)
    By Lisa Bryant
    Paris
    28 November 2008
    A new report by UNAIDS urges countries to adopt flexible policies that reflect how and why the latest HIV infections are transmitted. The report coincides with the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. For VOA, Lisa Bryant has more from Paris.
    HIV infected patients resting in a hospital [...]

  • Drugmakers abuse patents to block generics, says EU, EFPIA objects

    Source: PharmaTimes
    28 November 2008
    By Lynne Taylor
    Tactics used by pharmaceutical manufacturers to delay or block the entry onto the market of cheaper generics mean that European Union member states spent around 3 billion euros more during 2000-2007 than they would have if the generics had been available without delay, according to the preliminary findings of an [...]

  • Model Predicts Halt to Africa's AIDS Epidemic

    By David Brown
    Washington Post Staff Writer
    Wednesday, November 26, 2008; Page A04
    A strategy of testing adults every year for HIV and immediately treating every person found to be infected could virtually end the AIDS epidemic in Africa in about a decade, new research suggests.
    While nobody is seriously espousing that approach, the “thought experiment” outlined this week [...]


MGAC Outreach translation instructions + more

Hello everyone ! Salut tout le monde ! (message en français plus bas)

IMPORTANT DETAILS:

  • Due date: March 30th (doesn’t mean you have to wait till the last minute).
  • Email me to get an easier set of pages as soon as you receive this email.
  • This information is available here: http://treatthepeople.com/article/mgac-outreach-translation-instructions-more/ (bookmark this page if you are going to lose the email, but make sure you saved the pdf file to your computer)
  • For those of you who want to take a look at the complete manual, it is available here:

Finally, it is here. Your part of the translation has arrived. Attached you will find a pdf file of the pages you need to translate. So a couple things about that:

  1. Please take a look at the attached pages as soon as you can to make sure you are able to do it by the deadline, which is end of March (30th). If you feel overwhelmed, just let me know whether you can’t do the translation at all or if you’d like an easier part. I’m only asking to let me know ASAP.
  2. Some people will receive chunks that seem more than 4 pages (numerically). However, some of your pages are half pages or even less… So refer to 1:D
  3. Together with a McGill librarian, we have compiled a list of resources you can use in case if you need a bit of help:
    1. Large dictionnary list: http://www.mcgill.ca/library-findinfo/ref/c-d/lang-dictionaries/
    2. Grand dictionnaire (english-french): http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index1024_1.asp
    3. Termium plus (english french -> very cool, but need to be on McGill computer or look below this list for a link on how to set up access to McGill restricted ressources from your home computer) http://www.termiumplus.gc.ca/
    4. Synonyms (french) (http://dictionnaire.tv5.org/dictionnaires.asp?Action=1)
    5. Dictionary + synonyms (scroll down to Thesaurus box) (english) : http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dictionary.htm
  4. As some of you will see, the text has relatively little or quite a lot of formatting (boxes, arrows, highlightings…). I would appreciate if you could replicate as much as you could. The document will be that much easier to put together if I know some of the text comes from a box, even if you did not place it exactly in the same way.
    1. How to insert a text box in Word 2003 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP052381641033.aspx)
    2. How to insert a text box in Word 2007 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102302591033.aspx#WO)
    3. How to automatically insert an arrow in Word 2003 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051866401033.aspx?pid=CH060830141033)
    4. How to automatically insert an arrow in Word 2007 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP012303771033.aspx?pid=CH100626221033#1)
    5. If you need to do something else, contact me.
  5. I did not attach a Word file because of technical reasons, but if you absolutely need the doc file, let me know and I’ll try my best to get it to you.
  6. It is probably natural to think you are doing a little part and it is not that important. Let me assure you, your work IS indispensable. All this to say, if you have doubts, let me know now rather than in March.
  7. If there is anything I haven’t addressed, contact me.
  8. Thank you!

To use restricted ressources in dictionnary list mentionned above go here: http://ics.mcgill.ca/display/2n/articleDirect/index.asp?aid=2262&r=0.3181421
Scroll to list of operating systems, choose the one you have and follow detailed instructions.

In closing, just a couple of things. First, we are going to have a thank you event for all of our wonderful translators and outreach facilitators (with food and other fun stuff) in March - April. Second, I intend to start going to French schools next September, so just think if you are going to be around and if would be intersted to do it.

That’s it,


Voici, la traducton est finalement arrivée. Le fichier pdf avec les pages que vous devez traduire est joint à ce message. Quelques notes importantes à propos de la traduction:

  1. S.V.P. jetez un coup d’oeil sur les pages que je vous ai envoyées le plus vite possible. Assurez-vous que vous êtes capable de traduire cette quantité de texte avant le 30 mars, Si vous avez des doutes écrivez-moi toute de suite. Dites dans le message si vous ne pourrez pas traduire du tout, ou si vous voulez une partie plus facile.
  2. Certains d’entre vous ont reçu plus que 4 pages, mais en regardant le contenu vous allez vous apercevoir qu’au le texte sur les 5-6-7 pages que vous avez reçu équivaut à 4 pages complètes.
  3. Conjointement avec un bibliothécaire de McGill on a mis ensemble une liste de ressources que vous pourrez utiliser dans votre traduction:
    1. Liste de dico différents: http://www.mcgill.ca/library-findinfo/ref/c-d/lang-dictionaries/
    2. Grand dictionnaire (anglais-français): http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index1024_1.asp
    3. Termium plus (anglais-français -> très complet, mais access restreint aux étudiant de McGill. Si vous voulez l’accéder de chez vous, regardez le lien en bas de la liste) http://www.termiumplus.gc.ca/
    4. Synonymes (français) (http://dictionnaire.tv5.org/dictionnaires.asp?Action=1)
    5. Dictionnaire + synonymes (descendez à la boîte Thesaurus) (angails): http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dictionary.htm
  4. Vous allez remarquer que certaines pages sont riches en mise en forme (zones de texte, surlignage, des flèches…). J’apprécierai si vous préserverez le plus que possible la mise en forme pour la mise en page du document à la fin, même si c’est pas idéal.
    1. Ajouter une zone de texte Word 2003 (http://office.microsoft.com/fr-ca/word/HP052381641036.aspx)
    2. Ajouter une zone de texte Word 2007 (http://office.microsoft.com/fr-ca/word/HA102302591036.aspx)
    3. Insérer automatiquement une flèche, une face ou un autre symbole Word 2003 (http://office.microsoft.com/fr-ca/word/HP051866401036.aspx)
    4. Insérer automatiquement une flèche, une face ou un autre symbole Word 2007 (http://office.microsoft.com/fr-ca/word/HP012303771036.aspx#1)
    5. Quelque chose d’autre? Contactez-moi
  5. J’ai pas joint un fichier word en raison des problèmes techniques. Cependant, si vous avez absolument besoin de ce genre de fichier, laissez-moi savoir et je ferais mon mieux
  6. Je crois que c’est normal de penser que le travail que chacun de vous fait n’est pas important, que c’est seulement 4 pages. NON! Il est indispensable! Ceci pour insister que si vous hésitez, laissez-moi savoir avant le mois de mars.
  7. S’il y a quoique ce soit que j’ai oublié, écrivez-moi.
  8. Merci!

Pour vous servir des ressources accessibles aux étudiants de McGill à partir de chez vous allez ici: http://ics.mcgill.ca/display/2n/articleDirect/index.asp?aid=2262&r=0.3181421

En conclusion, MGAC va avoir un événement de remerciement pour tous les traducteurs et traductrices (desserts et plus) au mois de mars ou avril. En outre, j’ai l’intention de commencer le programme dans les écoles francophones le septembre prochain. Ceci étant dit, pensez-y! Si vous seriez à McGill l’année académique prochaine vous êtes les bienvenues de participer aux ateliers de formation des facilitateurs.

C’est tout

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