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Your news, your choice
You help us make the news—now you choose how to get it. As of this week, it’s official: PATH has expanded our online presence to give you more options for staying connected to progress in global health.
PATH on Facebook
PATH’s Facebook page is now up-to-the-minute with global health news. Not a Facebook member yet? No worries; the page is open to everybody, keeping you in the loop on stories and major developments at PATH and elsewhere.
Facebook members (old or new!), please join us on the PATH group for regular conversations. This week’s question: What’s your story? How do you connect with PATH and global health? Add your thoughts or just see what others are saying!
PATHtweets
You can also stay on top of new developments by following our posts on Twitter (www.twitter.com/pathtweets). Twitter users, re-tweet our updates and include #PATH in your own posts to join the global health conversation!
Big news for malaria and rotavirus
May and June were milestone months for malaria and rotavirus vaccines, marking a major trial for one and global acceptance for the other.
The final step for malaria vaccine?
On May 26, the world’s most advanced malaria vaccine candidate entered the final phase of testing. Soon to spread to more than 16,000 children across sub-Saharan Africa, it is the first trial of its kind—and the culmination of decades of research. Thank you for the support that helped us get this far!
A lifesaving global standard
 Earlier this month, the World Health Organization made its first formal recommendation that all national immunization programs include rotavirus vaccine. This new standard will help ensure access to rotavirus vaccines in the world’s poorest countries, where the majority of more than 500,000 deaths from the virus occur every year.
Get involved
Travel to Kenya with PATH Journeys
Lush rainforests and bustling cities; poverty, innovation, and hope. In September, PATH will take a small group of travelers to Kenya for an insider’s look at the country and PATH’s work in the field. For more information, visit www.path.org/donate/journeys.php or contact Ellen Cole at 206.788.2474 or ecole@path.org.
What’s on Paul Farmer’s mind?
Find out on June 18, when Paul Farmer, subject of Mountains Beyond Mountains, joins PATH president and CEO Chris Elias for a public conversation about global health. Don't miss this chance to hear from a man on a quest to “heal the world.” The free event runs from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus in Seattle.
Seattle sends a message
Our deepest thanks to the almost 800 people who gathered in PATH’s “transformed” parking garage for the 2009 Breakfast for Global Health. You contributed a stunning total of $561,509 toward innovative solutions for countries around the world.
Not able to attend? Watch our newest video from the field, Stories of Hope From Nicaragua, or visit www.path.org/donate/breakfast.php for photos and other tidbits from the event.
In the news
The Seattle Times: WHO urges standard diarrhea vaccine for children (June 5, 2009)
The World Health Organization on Friday recommended universal vaccination against the rotavirus.
The Wall Street Journal: Malaria vaccine tested in African clinical trial (May 30, 2009)
Researchers have begun a major clinical trial in Africa of what could become the world's first vaccine against malaria, a disease that kills nearly a million people every year.
Xconomy: PATH sparks market for “Ultra Rice” in India, through lunches for 60,000 schoolchildren (May 20, 2009)
One of the big ideas for tackling global malnutrition that’s been percolating for years at Seattle-based PATH is showing signs of its first real momentum in the marketplace.
For more coverage, visit our press room.
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