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The United States has helped to save millions of lives through the support of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
But right now, Congress is holding meetings on cuts to the White House’s 2012 budget request for global health funding. Their decisions could jeopardize the lives of millions of people who need access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.
Photo: Kenya 2005 © Brendan Bannon
Why does USAID send poor quality food to children overseas when US gives nutritious food to kids at home?
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
The access to nutritious, enriching foods that WIC provides to young American children is a stark contrast to the nutritionally devoid blend of fortified flour dumped on starving children outside the country.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From a physician’s perspective, physiology is the same world around, so the nutritional needs of a child in Sudan are the same as the nutritional needs of a child in Philadelphia.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
Watch the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
The US government-funded Women, Infants and Children nutrition program (WIC) has been shown to have dramatically reduced anemia and the rate of low birth weight.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
USA 2010 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
Thanks to WIC in this country (the US), we no longer see children near death from malnutrition. Nutrient-dense foods are good medicine.
From the Starved for Attention film “The U.S. Standard.”
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Fight the double standard in food quality! SIGN THE PETITION.
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