Help For Canada
Here are some ways to help out some of the Canadians who's lives have been forever changed by the wildfires. (From @mugsy, someone who's there, in the country, and feeling pretty damn scared.)
United Way Halifax (https://www.unitedwayhalifax.ca/give/united-way-halifax-wildfire-recovery-appeal/)
Alberta.ca Disaster Assistance (https://www.alberta.ca/disaster-assistance-and-recovery-support.aspx)
RedCross.ca Disaster Assistance (https://www.redcross.ca/how-we-help/current-emergency-responses/atlantic-canada-wildfire-responses)
And a GoFundMe for their coworker (https://gofund.me/f30934aa)
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Hello 🖐
I am a amira from Gaza, the breadwinner for my sick mother in the midst of war and destruction. I want to leave the Strip and provide a decent life for them. I have created a donation campaign to achieve this. Can you help me achieve this please?
https://www.gofundme.com/f/amiras-story-between-hope-and-resilience-a-call-for-soli
[August 7th, 11:20 am update]
please continue to support and help amira!!! this is a legitimate gofundme and has been vetted by ibtisams [HERE] and nabulsi [HERE]
AMIRA HAS €19,976 RAISED OUT OF THE €20,000 GOAL!
[Plain text: Amira has €19,976 raised out of the €20,000 goal!]
Amira is trying to evacuate her, her two siblings, and their immunocrompised mother—who needs medical treatment for her diabetes and high blood pressure!! If you're able to, please donate!!!! Even the smallest amount can make the biggest difference for her and her family!!
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"A first-of-its-kind report has discovered that altering the ingredients list or manufacturing methods of widely used medication can really cut back on carbon emissions.
They found a reduction of 26 million tons, enough to cancel out the whole carbon footprint of the city of Geneva for a decade. Best of all, it’s already happening, and in fact, is almost done—those emissions were already saved.
The lifesaving HIV treatment dolutegravir (DTG) is used by 24 million people worldwide.
Today, over 110 low and middle-income countries have adopted DTG as the preferred treatment option. Rapid voluntary licensing of the medicine, including its pediatric version, to over a dozen generic manufacturers, significantly drove down prices, and it’s estimated that 1.1 million lives will be saved from HIV/AIDS-related deaths by 2027.
Its predecessor, efavirenz, contained 1200 milligrams of active ingredient across the three active compounds present, while DTG contains 650 milligrams of just one compound. This small difference—literally measurable in single digits of paper clips by weight—was enough to change the carbon emissions footprint of the medication by a factor of 2.6.
The incredible discovery was made in a recent report by Unitaid, a global public-private partnership that invests in new health products and solutions for low and middle-income countries, called Milligrams to Megatons, and is the first published research to compare carbon footprints between commonly used medications.
“This magnitude of carbon footprint reduction surpasses many hard-won achievements of climate mitigation in health and other sectors,” the authors of the report write.
At the rate at which DTG is produced, since it entered into production and treatment regime in 2017, 2.6 million fewer tons of CO2 have entered the atmosphere every year than if efavirenz was still the standard treatment option.
Health Policy Watch reports that the global medical sector’s carbon emissions stand at roughly 5% of the global carbon emissions and are larger than the emissions of many big countries, and 2.5 times as much as aviation.
“This report demonstrates that we can achieve significant health improvements while also making strides in reducing carbon emissions. By adopting innovative practices and prioritizing sustainability, we can ensure that medicines like DTG are not only effective but also environmentally responsible,” Vincent Bretin, Director of Unitaid’s Results and Climate Team told Health Policy Watch."
-via Good News Network, July 17, 2024
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