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April 23, 2009
April 23, 2009Attorney General Eric Holder will swear in Assistant Attorneys General Christine A. Varney of the Antitrust Division, Tony West of the Civil Division, Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and David Kris of the National Security Division on FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009, at 11:00 A.M. ET. Full release
On Tuesday, April 28, the Kaiser Family Foundation is hosting a briefing to release the 2009 Survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS. The new survey of the American public is the seventh major survey conducted by the Foundation on the issue since 1995. As Foundation President Drew Altman noted in his recent Pulling It Together column on the Foundation's website, the survey finds that the public's attention to and sense of urgency about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. has fallen considerably, with the share naming HIV/AIDS as the nation's most urgent health problem down precipitously since 1995, and the share saying they have heard a lot about HIV/AIDS in the U.S. now less than half of what it was five years ago. Full release
AJC has released a hard-hitting new 4-minute video about the Iranian nuclear threat entitled "Point of No Return? Iran's Drive for Nuclear Weapons." Full release
As President Obama marks 100 days in office, Amnesty International USA and Witness Against Torture members, along with other activists, will push for accountability for past detainee abuses as they march from the U.S. Capitol to the White House on Thursday, April 30, 2009 beginning at 10 a.m. Full release
In conjunction with National Volunteer Week (April 19th--April 25th), the U.S. Fund for UNICEF today announced it has awarded 67 volunteers with the President's Volunteer Service Award, a national honor offered in recognition of volunteer service. Full release
Health workforce reform is a crucial element of health system reform, the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC) told the White House this week. "We must change health workforce policy now to ensure we are ready to meet the numerous workforce challenges presented by system reforms when they take effect," said AAHC President Dr. Steven Wartman in a letter to the Administration's health policy advisors. Full release
Today, the Democratic National Committee released the following statement and a new video marking nearly 100 days of the 'Party of No.' While the President and Democrats in Congress have spent the first 100 days working to save or create 3.5 million jobs, provide working Americans the largest tax cut in history, extend unemployment benefits to those hit hardest by the recession, make health care more affordable, reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil and invest in our nation's schools, the Republicans have chosen the same partisan politics that voters roundly rejected last November. Full release
As economic conditions remain poor, a majority of the public continues to say that they or a member of their household have delayed or skipped health care in the past year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's April health tracking poll. Full release