WELCOME TO THE ROBBINS’ RENDEZVOUS Part of what God used to bring Dee and I together was a mutual desire to walk out an integration of the Great Commandment (to love God with all our being and our neighbor as ourself) and the Great Commandment (to disciple...
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...
Roald Dahl, author of James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda and The BFG, writting about the death of his daughter Olivia, from measles. Olivia, my eldest daughter, cuaght measles when...
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...
Coram Deo to do all things, to live your life… before the face of God. What kind of father would give his child a bicycle and say, “I’m giving you this bike to glorify me.” “So when you ride it I want you to say, “My dad is great, my dad is...
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...
Posted on January 14, 2012 by konaallan (a visit with Uganda’s First Lady) Allan leading a participative learning & action exercise in Uganda.[From an article in Transformations Magazine] “So what do you think we should do about our nationʼs water...
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...
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...
New studies show solid progress on child survival, including a decline in the annual number of under-five deaths, according to UNICEF. Global child deaths have reached a record low, falling below 10 million per year to 9.7 million, down from almost 13 million in...
