Donate to a Charity Challenge

[K.Snyder]

Donate to a Charity Challenge

I'm challenging everyone to donate to a Charity

You cannot defeat me, it's quite frankly that simple

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On a side note I've decided to donate to any cause that will help the peoples of Thailand and their problems with Tuberculosis

I'm asking if anyone has dealt with Tuberculosis in Thailand and which site would be the best site to give money to without running the risk of completely wasting my money by virtue of scams and the true scum of the Earth

Report: Massive Social Mobilization Needed to Fight Tuberculosis in Thailand

February 14, 2007
Contact:
Dr. Amara Soonthorndhada
+ 66-9-927-1952

Bangkok—A new study reveals a striking lack of social and political commitment to control tuberculosis, a leading cause of death in Thailand.

According to the study, released by Mahidol University and the Open Society Institute, there is little understanding of how TB is spread and that it can be cured. Many patients do not seek treatment because of social stigma, lack of information, and prohibitive costs. Because of these factors, some patients fail to complete treatment, leading to an increased threat of drug-resistant TB and extremely drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB).

“The general perception in Thai society and among political leaders is that TB has been completely eradicated,” said Dr. Amara Soonthorndhada, the author of the report. “ The reality is that this curable disease killed 12,000 people last year, and approximately 90,000 more will become infected this year.”

In response to the report’s findings, representatives from Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, international donor agencies, and HIV/AIDS organizations are meeting today to discuss how to address the epidemic more effectively.

While TB rates had fallen by 50 percent from 1985 to 1991, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has fueled a dramatic resurgence of TB. The disease is also a leading cause of death for people with HIV/AIDS, although most TB cases can be cured with six months of standard treatment.

According to Dr. Soonthorndhada (biography available below), stigmatization of people living with TB and TB/HIV, and of women in particular, is a great concern. In Thailand, TB is perceived as a male disease, associated with a high-risk lifestyle and behaviors such as drinking, smoking, and an active nightlife. Women infected with TB are seen as being at odds with cultural norms and expectations of female behavior, intensifying the level of stigmatization they experience. As a result, Dr. Soonthordhada fears that women are more prone to “self-medicate” and delay seeking treatment from medical clinics.

Dr. Soonthordhada’s study, TB Policy in Thailand: A Civil Society Perspective, is part of a larger international series on TB policy in Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, and Tanzania, that was published by the Open Society Institute ’s Public Health Watch project. The series highlights how TB, HIV/AIDS, and poverty combine to cause almost two million preventable deaths globally each year.

Dr. Soonthorndhada is the deputy director of Mahidol University’s Institute for Population and Social Research.

Report: Massive Social Mobilization Needed to Fight Tuberculosis in Thailand | Open Society Institute

“The general perception in Thai society and among political leaders is that TB has been completely eradicated,” said Dr. Amara Soonthorndhada, the author of the report. “ The reality is that this curable disease killed 12,000 people last year, and approximately 90,000 more will become infected this year.”

[K.Snyder]

I found this website and seems like a noble one!

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/...

or...

United Nations Foundation Index

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Tuberculosis Care

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been confronted with tuberculosis since its first day of operation more than 30 years ago. In the past few years, MSF has expanded TB treatment to include patients in a growing number of projects, and the focus has shifted from disease control to patient care.

In 2004, MSF treated patients for TB in nearly 50 projects in 24 countries: Angola, Afghanistan(*), Abkhazia/Georgia, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Caucasus/Chechnya, Chad, China, Congo, DRC, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan. Approximately 16,500 new TB patients were admitted in programs supported by MSF in 2004, and many more were diagnosed by MSF medical teams and referred to local TB services, some of them supported by MSF.

The settings in which MSF provides TB care vary widely:

* Chronic conflicts: MSF projects treat TB patients in chronic conflicts, including work in Abkhazia and in South Sudan, and refugee camps in Chad and in Thailand.
* Primary health care: An increasing number of patients receive TB care from MSF in health centers, for example in South Sudan, Congo, DRC, and Angola.
* Prisons: Two MSF projects offer treatment in prison settings: in Abkhazia and Abidjan/Ivory Cost.
* Multi-drug resistant TB: MSF is treating multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Ivory Coast, Abkhazia, Thailand, and Uzbekistan.

Steps towards improving TB care recently taken in MSF projects include:

* HIV/AIDS co-infection: As TB is a major threat to people with HIV/AIDS, MSF provides TB treatment in its AIDS programs in several countries, including China, Cambodia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, and Zambia, and is working on integrating treatment of the two diseases in some countries in order to improve the follow up and care of co-infected patients.
* Alternative models: MSF has sought to find ways to treat patients who are difficult to follow, such as migrants or nomadic people, by reducing their need to come to a clinic. These efforts include home-based care in Cambodia and factory-based treatment in Thailand.
* Improving adherence to treatment: MSF is introducing strategies offering more flexibility to patients and at the same time guaranteeing good adherence. Self-administered treatment models have been begun with selected patients in Somalia, among co-infected patients in South Africa, and among pediatric patients in Angola. Community- or family-based direct observation has recently been introduced in Cambodia and Mozambique.
* Increasing the use of easy-to-use, pre-qualified fixed-dose combinations of TB drugs.
* Increasing the use of the WHO-recommended six-month treatment regimen(instead of eight months) within MSF projects.
* MSF is also upgrading diagnostic facilities in some countries, including introducing culture in Sudan and enhanced (fluorescence) microscopy in Cambodia and Angola, and improving follow-up of diagnosis with the use of culture, drug sensitivity testing and x-rays in Thailand, Ivory Coast, and Abkhazia.

(*) MSF withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2004 following the killing of five of its aid workers there in June 2004.

MSF-USA: MSF and Tuberculosis Care


And to donate to help fight Tuberculosis...

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders...?pid=197&hbc=1

[K.Snyder]

How to help Haiti earthquake victims

[K.Snyder]

I bought a pair of shin pads today that were made in China.

OH!,..btw I've joined a local soccer league and I'll let everyone know what position I'll be playing and inform all of you of my league scoring title if I'm fortunate enough to be the striker!!!!!!!

[K.Snyder]

Anyone still care about how celebrities are on television every time they donate to charity?

If so, I find that odd considering this thread has been posted for weeks with not a single response!

[K.Snyder]

Rainy season could hamper Haiti's recovery
Patrick Adams

Thousands of Haitians displaced by January's earthquake are living in temporary camps and are vulnerable to the worst the wet season has in store. Patrick Adams reports from Port-au-Prince.
More than 2 months after the Haiti earthquake, relief efforts continue apace as a sense of normality creeps back onto broken streets, many of them now cleared of rubble, if not rubbish. Yet even as aid agencies settle in for the long haul and Haitians set about rebuilding what was lost, heavy rains over the next 3 months threaten to compound the crisis, putting the country's estimated 1·2 million displaced at increased risk of vector-borne and enteric diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, and acute watery diarrhoea. Rainy season could hamper Haiti's recovery : The Lancet

Glad Mexico didn't suffer the same fate as The Haitians...

[K.Snyder]

Most charities are honest and accountable to their donors. Unfortunately, a few are not. AIP suggests the following pointers to help you give more effectively.

AIP's Tips for Giving Wisely to Charity

[chonsigirl]

Doctors without borders is a good group.

(shin pads for soccer-I got some for softball, they made me catcher)

I donate to a group to sponsor children to go to school in other countries already, have for decades.

[K.Snyder]

Doctors without borders is a good group.

(shin pads for soccer-I got some for softball, they made me catcher)

I donate to a group to sponsor children to go to school in other countries already, have for decades.

I also tried to donate using their website but for some reason my zipcode wouldn't corelate with the city I live in yet this is the address and zipcode I was given when I recently moved, so I ended up donating to Action Against Hunger.

Thanks for the reply it would allow people to feel more comfortable in donating online when they hear their money isn't being swindled.