The Federal Government has provided a $ 1.5million grant to Sokoto State Government under the Saving One Million Lives Programme.

The Federal Government has provided a $ 1.5million grant to Sokoto State Government under the Saving One Million Lives Programme.

The Permanent Secretary in the State’s Ministry of Health, Alhaji Almustapha Othman, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria( NAN)in Sokoto on Saturday.

Othman said that the programme will take off in January across the state.

According to him, some of the major health indices to be focussed upon under the programme include maternal child health and immunisation.

Similarly, Othman said that nutrition is one of the key indices of the programme, due to its importance.

” Nutrition is key in ensuring the successful implementation of the programme across the 23 local governments of the state.

” That is why the state government has concluded plans to upgrade the nutrition unit in the ministry to a full pledged Department.

” This is sequel to the tremendous importance that the state government attaches to nutrition.

” This means that it will have a Director and other key personnel and improved funding.

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The event is free for members or $10 for nonmembers.

Daktari Diagnostics announces new board

Daktari Diagnostics, of Cambridge, announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board comprising of global leaders in the diagnostic and biotechnology industries. The members of Daktari’s SAB include Greg Hermanson, Stephen Lee, Mihail Lungu, Dominick Pucci, Robert Suva, Alan Thomson and Mehmet Toner.

Genocea Biosciences announces results

Cambridge’s Genocea Biosciences Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing T cell-directed vaccines and immunotherapies, announced positive clinical results from a planned interim analysis of its ongoing placebo-controlled phase 2b trial evaluating GEN-003 for the treatment of genital herpes infections. The 60 micrograms per antigen, 50 micrograms of adjuvant dose of GEN-003 significantly reduced the rate of genital lesions during the six months following dosing compared to placebo. In aggregate, the data from the GEN-003 phase 2 clinical trials continue to support the selection of the 60 micrograms per antigen, 50 micrograms of adjuvant dose for the planned phase 3 program. GEN-003 also continues to demonstrate a safety profile appropriate for its therapeutic setting in the judgment of the trial’s independent Drug Monitoring Committee.

Community Foundation now accepting scholarship applications

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications.

High school to build welding lab | SaukValley.com

High school to build welding lab
Published: Saturday, Jan. 5501

OREGON A 106,686 grant from the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois will help Oregon High School build a state-of-the-art welding lab for high school vocational training, as well as a resource for Highland Community College in Freeport and professional welders.

The grant was announced by the Community Foundation as part of the single largest grant cycle in the organization’s 63-year history..

Grants were made possible by the Dr.

Education Briefs: Colorado Northwestern Community College to receive $20,000 for new scholarships | Craig Daily Press

Colorado Northwestern Community College will receive $10,000, a portion of a $250,000 gift to the Foundation for Colorado Community Colleges and Pikes Peak Community College Foundation given by the GE Johnson Construction Company Community Foundation located in Colorado Springs.

CNCC will also receive a $10,000 matching gift from the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative bringing the total new scholarship fund to $20,000.

Colorado’s community colleges have become critical in supplying an educated construction workforce.

“The vast majority of our students are Colorado residents and, after graduation, 97 percent stay in state, becoming the workforce that powers the Colorado economy and the heart of our neighborhoods, businesses and communities,” said Dr.

Scholarships are important to community college students.

Details about the number of scholarships, amounts and how to apply are not yet available, but when asked who might qualify for funds, CNCC Director of Marketing Brian MacKenzie responded in an email “any CNCC student with demonstrated financial need.

Colorado Northwestern Community College will be offering Bootstraps Financial Training for free.

Theater, art, music, computer programing and sewing are all offered as part of CNCC’s College for Kids program this spring.

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Investment: Cadet college gets Rs80m grant

Rs45 millio n will be provid ed for indoor games and librar y repair s among others

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Prior to his afternoon lesson, Spencer Community Schools STEM Instructor Torrey Proctor looked over a Lego rover model, which can be wirelessly linked to a mobile device and used in the STEM curriculum. Proctor and 4-H volunteer Amanda Bare have been selected by the Iowa Space Grant Consortium to participate in a NASA workshop at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The Iowa Space Grant Consortium, which is affiliated with Iowa State University, recently announced that representatives of seven Iowa schools will be participating in the 2017 ISGC Academy, which will be held Feb. Weber noted that the pair possessed qualities, which meshed well with the goal of the ISGC’s partnership.

Spencer Community Schools STEM instructor Torrey Proctor (left) and 4-H volunteer Amanda Bare (right) will be traveling to Huntsville, Alabama, this February, to participate in the Iowa Space Grant Consortium’s 2017 Academy.

“Eventually I was going to get to space, because that’s a really exciting STEM subject and not a lot of it’s being taught in the elementary that directly applies to space engineering or space sciences. So it was perfect,” Proctor said.

Proctor said he plans to prepare some initial school curriculum prior to the workshops but wants to allow the tours and presentations to guide the curriculum as well.

“I’m really a blank slate on this,” Proctor said.

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Since it started in 2001, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has invested nearly $600,000 designed to help improve overall health and address unmet health care needs in the Green River region.

It’s about 2 percent of more than $26.7 million that have gone toward improving the commonwealth’s health and represents a $2,742.50 total dollar investment per 1,000 people in the region.

The foundation, Kentucky’s strongest health lobby, is a leader in advocacy and policy research. Using endowed funds, it’s helped pilot projects including one of the region’s first health coalitions, an anti-smoking summit and numerous fitness and exercise initiatives, according to a foundation grants report obtained Wednesday.

The Green River Area Development District, encompassing Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Ohio, Union and Webster counties, have earned at least 15 of 745 grants statewide since 2001, not including almost $1 million in research, training and workshops.

Investments have been high, considering that earnings on the endowment have been low, said President and CEO Ben Chandler. The most recent and largest single grant to date in the region is an ongoing pledge of almost a quarter of a million dollars to the Partnership for a Healthy McLean County to help combat childhood obesity.

Only about $87,000 of that grant is reflected in the GRADD region six-year investment report.

The three-year health coalition grant has helped construct new playground equipment at Myer Creek Park in Calhoun, develop a walking program at McLean County Middle School and supplement a backpack feeding program at Calhoun Elementary School. The funds expire in 2018.

Ohio County Together We Care, a nonprofit organization founded to address drug abuse among teens, helped start one of the region’s first county health coalitions with foundation funds in 2008.

“It meant a lot for Ohio County because it was able to get health information and resources into a community that hadn’t seen that before,” said Project Manager Sheila Barnard. “We had been here for mentoring kids, but the money from the foundation was used across the board to get programs into the communities that needed them and to make us starting thinking about health in a real way.”

The organization earned two more grants in 2009 and 2011, creating a total cash value of almost $300,000.

Other coalitions were later recognized by GRADD and the Green River District Health Department.

Austin Ramsey, 270-691-7302, aramsey@messenger-inquirer.com, Twitter: @austinrramsey