Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts

Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts Legions spurned a long-proven vaccine, putting a generation at risk By JEANNE WHALEN and BETSY MCKAY PORT TALBOT, Wales—When the telltale rash appeared behind Aleshia Jenkins’s ears, her grandmother...

Teaching medical missions to Primary Health Care students

  Allan teaching in the Introduction to Primary Health Care school in Kona. This week I taught the in the Introduction to Primary Health Care on Water-related Infectious Diseases (including Malaria and Dengue), worms & other parasites, and on skin...

Youth With A Mission Day proclamation in Hawaii

The University of the Nations in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i was founded in 1978 to train students from all the world to go every nation by serving every sphere of society with the love of God, and providing practical aid to help a hurting world. In the 33 years of its...

Primary health care: making Alma-Ata a reality

The principles agreed at Alma-Ata 30 years ago apply just as much now as they did then. “Health for all” by the year 2000 was not achieved, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for 2015 will not be met in most low-income countries without substantial...

Primary Health Care at 30

In September 1978, the International Conference on Primary Health Care was held in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, then part of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR). Led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the conference produced the Alma-Ata Declaration, which...