{"id":25,"date":"2005-02-07T14:41:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T19:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/02\/07\/frists-testimony-before-commerce-"},"modified":"2005-02-07T14:41:59","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T19:41:59","slug":"frists-testimony-before-commerce-committee-lauded-global-health-cor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/02\/07\/frists-testimony-before-commerce-committee-lauded-global-health-cor\/","title":{"rendered":"Frist&#8217;s Testimony Before Commerce Committee Lauded: Global Health Corps to strengthen readiness and response capabilities around the world called promising new initiative by leading health care professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a41'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalhealth.org\/news\/article\/5594\/newsletter\">From the Global Health news release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to Sen. Frist, the Global Health Corps would function as a<br \/>\nnew &#x2018;Peace Corps&#8217; and draw together medical professionals and other<br \/>\nvolunteers from around the nation to provide quick assistance when<br \/>\ndisaster strikes as well as ongoing care in the neediest parts of the<br \/>\ndeveloping world. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Although Frist&#8217;s position at the hearing focused on safe<br \/>\nwater, discussion of HIV\/AIDS would be pertinent &#8211; at the minimum<br \/>\nconsidering the relatively high risk of unsafe water for HIV+<br \/>\npopulations.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Global Health news release: According to Sen. Frist, the Global Health Corps would function as a new &#x2018;Peace Corps&#8217; and draw together medical professionals and other volunteers from around the nation to provide quick assistance when disaster strikes as well as ongoing care in the neediest parts of the developing world. Although Frist&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}