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World Cup Campaign To Build Centers To Provide HIV/AIDS Education, Other Services To At-Risk African Youth
Authorities in South Africa have begun construction of one of the 20 planned Football for Hope centers in Africa -- part of a 2010 World Cup campaign called "20 Centers for 2010" aimed at reducing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, poverty and crime in local communities -- the AP/Google.com reports. The center under construction in South Africa"s Khayelitsha township will include a soccer field, community center and after-school programs that will focus on sex education and HIV/AIDS education. The International Federation of Football Association, or FIFA, in alliance with Streetfootballworld, a network of development groups, is providing the campaign with $10 million in funding. Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Rwanda and other African countries will be home to the remaining 19 centers.According to FIFA President Joseph Blatter, the campaign "emphasizes the power of football far beyond the boundaries of the pitch." He added that the centers will "provide a platform for communities to address social issues such as children"s rights, education, health, HIV/AIDS prevention and will leave a legacy for Africa that will last long after the final whistle of the 2010 FIFA World Cup has been blown." Helen Zille, premier of the Western Cape Province, said construction of the center in the township "shows what we can do when we focus on getting things right rather than concentrating on what"s wrong," adding that she hopes the center is successful with its HIV/AIDS education efforts. The center will be run by Grassroots Soccer, an HIV/AIDS education organization that uses the sport to educate youth. Nocawe Tyali, a life-skills and football teacher who works with teenagers, said the new center will give young people an alternative to high-risk behaviors and enable the area to offer more youth football programs that include an HIV/AIDS prevention message (Nullis, AP/Google.com, 5/25).
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Obama To Ask Doctors To Back US Health Reform

President Barack Obama is seeking support from America"s doctors today as he addresses delegates at the 158th annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago. A White House official told the press that the President will speak to them about "his vision for a system that replicates best practices, incentivizes excellence and closes cost disparities", reported Reuters news agency. In making his case, the President will ask doctors for "help in getting the job done" while Congress works on the more controversial parts of his healthcare reform plan. The President is proposing a system designed to reduce cost while increasing options. At the heart of it is a health insurance exchange where private plans compete with a public option, said the administration official. This has been received with skepticism by some Republicans who say that including a public plan that is competitive will drive some insurers out of business and in the long run reduce the choice for patients. According to Reuters, the AMA have also expressed concerns about a public health insurance plan that might be similar to the current Medicare state supported plan for seniors, however the organization said that it was willing to consider some of the options currently being reviewed by Congress, such as the idea of member-owned co-operatives. AMA President Dr Nancy Nielsen said in a press statement that: "The AMA is actively working for health reform that covers the uninsured, makes private insurance more affordable, increases the value our nation receives from its health-care spending and enhances prevention and wellness for patients." "To achieve the vision of health care for everyone, there has to be a reduction in the rate of growth of spending on healthcare," she said. "The AMA pledged to President Obama that the medical profession would reduce unnecessary costs by focusing on quality improvements, such as developing best practices for care and improving medication reconciliation," said Nielsen, stressing that: "In order for physicians to focus on patient care, health reform that covers the uninsured must also include permanent Medicare payment reform, antitrust relief and medical liability protections." The New York Times reported earlier today that Obama has been considering how to reduce malpractice lawsuits as a way to bring down costs, although he is not in favour of capping jury awards, said the Associated Press who also reported that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (Democrat, South Dakota) said reducing the cost of malpractice insurance would also have to be included in the President"s reformed health plan. According to ABC News, Obama met earlier this year with the new AMA president Dr James Rohack who told the US President that one of the reasons the nation"s health bill is so high is because doctors are practising "defense medicine", where for instance they order unnecessary tests, referrals and hospital stays just in case they get sued. After that meeting, Rohack told ABC News that physicians would be prepared to look at reducing these unnecessary costs if they had protection in the court room, in the sense, for example that "we subsequently aren"t going to get sued because we didn"t order that test that shouldn"t have been done in the first place." Reuters, ABC News, AMA, Associated Press. Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD Copyright: Medical News Today Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today


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