http://www.africanviews.org/ http://www.africanviews.org/images/stories/powered-by-av.gif http://www.africanviews.org/ 48653-74 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1067-voices-of-women/48653-healthy-lifestyle-healthier-thinking Sybil Shainwald was a consumer advocate even before she studied law. As the Director of the Study Center for the Consumer Movement at Consumers Union, Ms. Shainwald was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to establish the Center for the Study of the Consumer Movement. She accomplished this while attending New York Law School’s evening division from which she received a JD in 1976. Her legal career has focused almost exclusively on women’s health issues. She was co-counsel in the nation’s first DES daughter victory, Bichler v. Eli Lilly, and won a $42.5 million verdict in a consolidated DES case for 11 women. She has successfully litigated thousands of cases involving drugs and devices harmful to women and their children. Ms. Shainwald represented 1,500 Dalkon Shield clients, and has been successful in numerous mass tort litigations. Ms. Shainwald also litigated the first successful Paralodel case, a lactation suppressant, the first chorionic villus sampling case, a pre-natal test, and has done other ground-breaking work in the area of pharmaceutical litigation. Additionally, she was instrumental in changing the Statute of Limitations in New York to a discovery statute and filed the first case under the Revival Statute. Throughout her career, Sybil Shainwald conducted meetings in places as far as Kenya and Costa Rica to acquaint women to the toxicity of various products aimed at women, including Depo Provera, Norplant, silicone breast implants, and other dangerous products. Her writings, lectures, and appearances before Congressional committees, the FDA, and national and international media have raised the national consciousness on crucial women’s health issues. Ms. Shainwald has been recognized as a leader in women’s health litigation numerous times and in 2007 was the first woman recipient of New York Law School’s highest honor, the President’s Medal, for her “inspiring leadership, unswerving dedication, and superb and innovative legal skills on behalf of the women’s health movement.” ]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:07:48 -0500 48649-73 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1018-health-dialogues/48649-eye-glasses-in-africa Optic neuropathy was first diagnosed in 1988 in Tanzania and since then the number of cases has grown dramatically. Most of those cases have been young people in the coastal region. Research published in 1988 suggests that at least 5,000 children in Dar es Salaam alone had the condition. At present, doctors can do little to fight what has officially become an epidemic as they have no definitive answer as to what causes optic neuropathy. CCBRT's Dr Fanuel Msella told BBC News Online that there are few clear answers. "No-one knows exactly why the condition occurs. At the moment we are just guessing, but we think it could be something to do with nutrition. "But this does not explain why it is occurring only on the coast and not upcountry." Theories There are a number of other theories about the cause of the condition. They include the sun, poisons in food like cyanide, even mosquitoes. The outlook for patients like Teddy remains poor as, more or less, the only treatment doctors can offer is giving vitamin supplements - a treatment which is not always successful. The last big epidemic of optic neuropathy was in Cuba from 1991-93. Ophthalmologists from around the world descended on the Caribbean island to find out more, but came to few conclusions. In Tanzania, the money to research the condition has all but run out and doctors are left pondering how to deal with the increasing number of especially young people who are seeking treatment for this elusive illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3014659.stm ]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:49:44 -0500 48641-71 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1067-voices-of-women/48641-an-ever-aging-generation Dr. Brownell received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin , and her M.S.W. and Ph.D. in Social Work from Fordham University. Dr. Brownell has been active in the fields of domestic violence, aging and public welfare for over 30 years. She is a John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar and is the U.N. Representative to the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA). Currently, she represents INPEA on the NGO Committee on Aging of the United Nations and effective January 2007, assumes the Presidency of the New York State Society on Aging of New York. Her areas of research and practice are gerontology, elder abuse and domestic violence, and she has a number of publications related to these topics. ]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:07:49 -0500 48631-70 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1067-voices-of-women/48631-women-and-the-media Dr. Kammer received her B.A. in Education and Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Wilwaukee and both her M.S.W. and Ph.D. from Columbia University School of Social Work. Her research interests have focused on the mental health and substance abuse treatment needs of women of color. Dr. Kammer has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work since 1999, where she has taught classes on clinical practice, research, and children and family services. Her post-masters agency based experience includes serving as a Child and Adolescent Therapist, as the Director of the C.O.P.E. (Community Outreach and Public Education) Campaign at the Mental Health Association of NYC, and as the Clinical Consultant for the Manhattan Parent Resource Center, also a program of the MHA of NYC. ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:58:38 -0500 48614-69 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1067-voices-of-women/48614-health-issues-including-maternal-mortality-and-cultural-limitations Vijaya L. Melnick, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences. • Served as Director of the Center for Applied Research and Urban Policy, and as the Director of the Office of Sponsored Research & Programs at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC. • Associate Director, International Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Immunology, Georgetown Univ. Medical Center. • Co-President of the International Health Awareness Net Work, a U N affiliated organization. • Fellow of the International Medical Sciences Academy. • Served: On the faculty of Health Care Ethics at Howard Univ. Medical College. As Special Assistant for Policy & Bioethics, Natl. Inst. on Aging, NIH. As Senior Science Advisor to the Lemelson Center for Inventions & Innovations, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History As reviewer of the Journal of Medical Ethics, London, UK As participant of Harvard University School of Public Health program on ‘Ethical Issues in International Research on Health’. As participant of an intensive course on ‘Bioethics’ at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics at Georgetown University. As Science Advisor and Senior Faculty for ‘Ethics of Human Subject Protection’ of the Einstein Institute for Science, Health and the Courts. As chair and member of Institutional Review Boards. As the US Principal Investigator & Director of workshops on the ‘Ethics of Clinical Research & Trials in India’. (The Indo-US Science & Technology Forum.) As Principal Investigator of research projects on the health of women & children. Author of a number of research and policy articles and books. She serves on boards and executive committees of national and international organizations concerned with health and/or education. She is listed in various Who’s Who publications. She received her Ph.D, and Postdoctoral training, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:57:12 -0500 48620-68 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1067-voices-of-women/48620-development-economic-finance-women-and-the-workplace Myrna M. Rivera, Founder, CEO and President is a Certified Investment Management Analyst ("CIMA"), member of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) and a Certified Investment Management Consultant. She is a former Director and Senior Vice President of the Consulting Group at Salomon Smith Barney. There she devoted the focus of the past sixteen years to institutional and high net worth investment management consulting in New York and San Juan, and as a result of which is nationally recognized as a pioneer in this field. In Puerto Rico, she has assisted in developing the standard practices used today in endowments and foundations, pension funds, insurance companies, credit unions and government for the management of large investment portfolios. In 1996 she was appointed to the "Top 100 Honorary Council" by the Business Women's Network in Washington, D.C. In 1999, she became the first Hispanic woman in the United States and Puerto Rico to be elected to the "Who's Who of Investment Management Consulting", a very prestigious group of professionals dedicated to investment management consulting. Ms. Rivera began her career in financial services in 1976 with the Service Bureau Corporation, a division of Control Data Corporation, as a marketing specialist and training coordinator for the brokerage, banking and insurance industries in New York. After six years, she joined Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith in Puerto Rico as a retail account executive, and E.F. Hutton & Co., predecessor to Salomon Smith Barney in 1983. In 1995 Salomon Smith Barney awarded her the John Ellis, Jr. Excellence Award for outstanding dedication and service in the field of institutional investment management consulting. Ms. Rivera is Chair of the National Board of ASPIRA Association in Washington, D.C., IMCA Certification Program faculty member and member of its curriculum subcommittee, a director of New York's Musica de Cámara, and founding chairperson of Comisión de Ciudadanos al Rescate de Caimito, a community organization. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus, and of the Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York, where she obtained Bachelor and Masters degrees in Mathematics in 1973 and 1975, and where she subsequently taught mathematics. She is registered with NASD as a General Securities Representative (Series 7) and a General Securities Principal (Series 24) ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:55:25 -0500 48634-67 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1067-voices-of-women/48634-participation-of-women-in-political-life CMAS Holdings, LLC is pleased to announce the arrival of Ms. Judith D. O'Neill to our executive team. Ms. O'Neill will assume the duties of CMAS's COO and she will oversee Strategic Development. Prior to joining CMAS, Ms. O'Neill was chair of the New York Telecommunications Department of the international law firm, Greenberg Traurig. She has practiced law in the United States and internationally for over 35 years, working, advising and training in more than 80 countries in the Americas, Asia, Oceana, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Her substantive range of expertise within the Telecom sector includes drafting laws and regulations for national regulators of foreign governments; telecommunications sector privatizations; joint ventures and other business combinations and strategic approaches to changing technologies and applications. Her Website is : www.cmasalert.com. ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:06:15 -0500 48608-59 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1067-voices-of-women/48608-investing-in-womens-education I felt very involved today by knowing that there are many women trying to fight for education and therefore our rights ]]> Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:49:35 -0600 48608-58 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1067-voices-of-women/48608-investing-in-womens-education thanks for such a wonderful program ]]> Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:49:24 -0600 48596-57 http://www.africanviews.org/component/content/article/1013-green-africa/48596-water-shortages-in-dry-seasons The small maps below give a general idea on the movement of the migration, see a more detailed map of the Serengeti ecosystem plus explanations on how the migration really works! We recommend a review of our simplified graphic explanation on how the annual migration in the Serengeti is meant to work. here are some notes on how the migration really works how to plan a migration safari - Kenya or Tanzania For an update on our Serengeti trips take a look at our safaris in Tanzania Tanzanian maps: http://www.zambezi.co.uk/safari/tanzania/mapseren.html ]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:23:54 -0600