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Q&A: Experts Urge Pediatric Advocacy Amid Worsening Climate Hazards

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Globally, flooding is the most common type of extreme weather event (EWE) and >500 million children reside in flood zones worldwide. Climate change increases the frequency and severity of floods, with compounding effects on child health.” PW: How is climate change impacting children’s health globally? Shah, DO, and Maya I.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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All of them offer the same array of services, really emphasizing social determinants of health and preventive services like falls prevention, chronic disease, self-management, caregiver training. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. And then, we have nonprofits that are community-based organizations.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

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And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. ’” Once he regained his health, Sturdevant resolved to care for others in his position.