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Search results for "international aid" ...
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Collateral Damage: Human Rights and U.S. Military Aid After 9/11
This project investigated the impact of foreign lobbying and terrorism on U.S. post-9/11 military training and aid programs. Controversial U.S. allies such as Pakistan received billions of dollars in additional, new military aid to fight the global war on terror. Additionally, foreign governments spent millions lobbying the White House and the Pentagon, taking advantage of the chaotic policymaking environment to ask for their own military aid. The investigation revealed that the change in priorities often came at the cost of human rights and fiscal accountability.
Tags: human rights; foreign countries; international relations; war on terror; military expenses
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Bitter Pills
"Medicines for cancer, cholesterol, blood pressure - even the front-line defense against bird flu - are being counterfeited by international rings." Dateline NBC examines how "loopholes in existing government regulations have allowed the fakes to reach U.S. drug stores - even major chains like CVS and Rite Aid." The investigation into this potential health risk found, among other things, a cocaine smuggler who now counterfeits Lipitor "because there was less risk and more money." Also, photos of counterfeit operations revealed some "based in caves, others using drywall, cement and highway paint among their ingredients."
Tags: Counterfeit drugs; counterfeit medicines; drug tracking; health risks
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Beating of Frank Jude Jr.
Following the vicious beating of Frank Jude Jr., allegedly by a group of off-duty police officers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel launched its investigation of the screening processes for hiring police officers. In most departments, officers are required to undergo psychological screening before joining the force. What reporters found was that, in many cases (including the case of the officers accused of beating Frank Jude Jr.), officers do not undergo any psychological screening and don't even go through an oral interview before joining the force.
Tags: CAR; police screening; psychological screening; police aid program; police training; internal investigations
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Children for Sale
Dateline teams up with the International Justice Mission, a human rights group, to investigate the business of selling children for sex. They focus on Cambodia where many sexual predators from around the world come to buy young children. Victims are interviewed as well as adult exploiters of children and various political figures comment on the problem.
Tags: Child sex trade; human trafficking; international human rights; US Aid
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The Hidden Cause of AIDS
This story analyzes the spread of AIDS through rural areas in Mozambique, Africa. People in small, rural communities who should be at a low risk for contracting the virus have very high infection rates. It turns out that this is because men from these areas often leave to go work in the mines in South Africa, but keep girlfriends and wives in Mozambique. The miners get AIDS from prostitutes around the mines and then transmit it to their partners at home. The story also explores the socioeconomic effects of AIDS on small rural communities, and looks at ways in which the government and NGOs are working to stop this trend.
Tags: AIDS; HIV; Africa; WHO; UNAID; Family Health International; safe sex; sex-education; miners; prostitution
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Shelter Games
The New York city's welfare agencies pay nonprofit organizations to accommodate and treat AIDS patients. Praxis is one such organization. Investigations revealed that the money given to this organization was being used to start various profit making projects without the knowledge of the IRS. Reporters also found that the executives of Praxis were involved with street gang members.
Tags: New York city welfare; AIDS patients; nonprofit organizations; Internal Revenue Services; Father Gordon Duggins; G Sterling Zinsmeyer
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Pharmacy Fakes
With this article, SELF Magazine broke the story of adulterated and counterfeit prescription drugs entering America's pharmacies. The article revealed for the first time, that counterfeiters had systematically infiltrated the domestic drug supply, gaining access to fragile medicines and diluting or falsely relabeling them in order to reap a high profit. They exposed how most of the nation's medicine passes through a vast gray market of wholesalers, and how weak enforcement of federal and state regulations makes it close to impossible to identify where our medicine has come from. The article contains personal accounts from patients who had been harmed by counterfeit medicine, and a report on a Florida investigation which had uncovered potential misconduct at 50 of the state's wholesale companies.
Tags: prescription drugs; pharmacies; counterfeit medicine; tainted drugs; Food and Drug Administration; Prescription Drug Marketing Act; pharmaceutical wholesalers; Florida Department of Law Enforcement; CVS ProCare Pharmacy; Healthcare Distribution Management Association; drugmakers; Jemco Medical International; relabeling; diluting; serostim; Serono; AIDS
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Twenty Years and Still Paying : Jeanette White Is Long Dead but Her Hospital Bill Lives On; Full Price: A Young Man, An Appendectomy and a $19,000 Bill Ms.Nix Confronts Harsh Facts of Medical Care Economics -- The Uninsured Are Billed More; Medical Seizures: Hospitals Try Extreme Measures to Collect Their Overdue Debts
The Journal reveals how America's uninsured are asked to pay much more for their health care than anyone else. This series puts the spotlight on a shockingly unfair billing system, revealing how hospitals bill those without coverage the highest rates, then relentlessly pursue these vulnerable patients using strong-arm tactics that includes lawsuits, wage garnishments, bank account seizures and even jail.
Tags: Medicare; Medicaid; Illinois Hospital Association; American Hospital Association; Quinton White; Champaign County-Illinois; Elizabeth Benjamin; Legal Aid Society; Yale-New Haven; Service Employees International Union
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Cuba: An Elusive Truth
This story is a ten month, in depth investigation of Cuba. The students completed hundreds of interviews to synthesize three distinct perspective: those of the Miami exiled community, the Cuban government and the Cuban people. The students found that there is no absolute truth about the country; the embargoes, government programs, media, and tourism all have both positive and negative consequences for the country. The story has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for international journalism.
Tags: Cuba; communism; Castro; socialism; embargo; AIDS; prostitution; tourism; spies; media freedom; exiles
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"Losing the Peace? As Afghanistan struggles to recover, the U.S. prepares to move on"
Massing spent about two and a half weeks in Afghanistan interviewing everyone from provincial governors to aid workers, people on the street and U.S. troops. He found good security in Kabul but discontent brewing throughout the countryside. Locals expressed fear at the rise of Northern Alliance officials to positions of power in the fledgling state. Detailed descriptions provide a glimpse into the post-war nation building phase of U.S. operations in Afghanistan.
Tags: Massoud; Karzai; Islam; Islamic; Afghan; Northern Alliance; Taliban; Al Qaeda; United Nations; peacekeeping; international aid; NGO; Tajik; Panjshiri; Pashtun; warlord; ISAF; International Security Assistance Force