Posted on 10/17/2012 12:15:56 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chelsea Clinton is taking on the discomforting issue of diarrhea, throwing her family's philanthropic heft behind a sweeping effort in Nigeria to prevent the deaths of 1 million mothers and children each year from preventable causes, including 100,000 deaths from diarrhea.
The 32-year-old daughter of President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined Nigerian officials, the prime minister of Norway and other leaders on Tuesday in promoting expanded access to zinc and oral rehydration solutions or ORS, a treatment that could prevent more than 90 percent of diarrhea-related deaths in the country.
"It is unconscionable that in the 21st century, children still die of diarrhea," Clinton told Reuters in an exclusive interview by phone from Abuja, Nigeria.
The ORS and zinc work in Nigeria is in coordination with the Clinton Health Access Initiative or CHAI, on whose board Clinton serves. She has stepped up her public role in the family's global philanthropic efforts and in July took a six-day tour of Africa with her father, who founded the William J. Clinton Foundation in 2001.
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If only she’d host a marathon to raise funds and awareness...
call it... (drum roll please)...
“The Run of Runs”
Thank you. (I know it is a serious issue, but you started it!) :)
She is setting herself up to run for something.
Whatever it is I hope the office is in Nigeria
Leave it to the FOS Clintons to take on the cause of diarrhea
Sometimes irony just wipes itself, er, writes itself.
Sounds to me like she’s setting herself up for the runs.
...and with her parents, she knows flowing crap!
I agree with your conclusion.
There was a big puff piece in USA Today Weekend about her on Sunday.
Wanted to post it for snarks, but not allowed on FR.
Webster Hubbell’s daughter is not quite the person I’d want to send to Africa to fight diarrhea. Of course, if she stays there, that’s ok too.
If any kid knows shit when she sees it, she does.
Chelsea should first try helping Obama out..I saw a lot of crap coming out of Obama’s mouth last night
Where is Chelsea Mezvinsky’s husband?
Why is it that, whenever she’s mentioned in the news, there is no mention of her marriage or husband?
Why is it that, whenever out in public, she’s never with her husband?
Where is her husband? Do they live together?
As I told my neighbor when he was complaining about this, time to get a better cook! ;-)
I guess her attempt at a media career just went into the toilet!
Mother Chelsa will see to it that the global villiage cleans up the diarrhea.
Didn’t he run away once from their marriage?
So what happened to AIDS. Doesn’t she know AIDS is the problem? Maybe a slip to the truth here.
When I was in Uganda there was lots of international support for AIDS and because there was money, everyone had AIDS>
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