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Welcome to LifeLines, the monthly newsletter of PSI. In LifeLines, find information about our work and how our products, services and campaigns are helping to improve lives every day. |
| US President and First Lady Visit PSI Youth Program in Rwanda |
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President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visited ABAJENE!, a PSI program supported by the US government that uses a mix of communication strategies to engage young Rwandans in a youth movement that promotes healthy lifestyles and strengthens their life skills and ability to adopt safer sexual behaviors. Under strong leadership from the Rwandan National AIDS Commission, ABAJENE! covers 14 out of 30 school districts in Rwanda.
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| Kenyan Staffers Lend Helping Hand to Victims of Unrest |
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The aftermath of the violence that erupted in January over suspicion of corruption in the presidential elections in Kenya displaced more than 400,000 Kenyans from their homes. It also left PSI/Kenya unable to reach key populations and crippled much of PSI's operations in the country. With its programs halted and the number of internally displaced persons mounting, PSI/Kenya and its staff decided to do something to help the victims of the unrest.
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PSI Honored for HIV Collaboration |
| PSI, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Health Policy Initiative Project received top honors from the Malian government for their efforts against HIV/AIDS, including a reduction in adult national HIV prevalence from 1.7 percent in 2001 to 1.2 percent in 2006.
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| Country Spotlight: Myanmar |
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Since 1995, PSI has been improving the lives of vulnerable populations in Southeast Asia's largest country, Myanmar. With programs in reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, child survival, tuberculosis and now pneumonia, PSI/Myanmar is committed to decreasing the burden of disease.
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| "The Way Things Are" in Togo |
| "After over two years as a community health volunteer for the Peace Corps in Togo, I don't have a canned, thirty-second response answer to why I wanted to work on issues of international family planning. I do, however, have a story."
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