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Hi Reddit!
My name is Caitlin Dunn, and I am a Program Officer at John Snow, Inc., a public health consulting and management organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. Joining me for today's AMA is Kelly Callahan, Director of the Trachoma Control Program for The Carter Center, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Dr. Deborah McFarland, Associate Professor at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. We published an article titled "The Contributions of Onchocerciasis Control and Elimination Programs toward the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals" in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). This article was a literature and data review which found that reducing the burden of onchocerciasis in highly endemic areas contributes to achieving several Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Here is a little bit about us:
Caitlin Dunn currently provides backstopping support to two USAID-funded health programs: a health systems strengthening program focused on improving maternal and child health outcomes in Pakistan and a program looking at data quality of PEPFAR indicators in Mozambique. This article was written as part of Ms. Dunn’s thesis, “A Retrospective Review of Onchocerciasis Control and Elimination Program Contributions to the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals” while at the Rollins School of Public Health in partnership with The Carter Center, where she served as a Graduate Research Assistant.
Dr. Deborah A. McFarland is on the faculty of the Department of Global Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. Dr. McFarland has been involved in health policy, health systems and health financing issues for the past 30 years, both in the U.S. and internationally. Dr. McFarland is a current member of the WHO NTD Strategic Technical Advisory Group (STAG), a former member of the APOC Technical Consultative Committee, the Mectizan Expert Committee and WHO TDR group on community-based interventions for NTDs.
Kelly Callahan works in program implementation towards eradic
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Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Tinder, UHN and the Canadian health system, a cautionary tale.
This story reflects an arduous and stressful journey that has extended over two years and is still not finished. My frustration commands me to write this, it’s the only therapy available to me at the moment. If you are looking for some twitter-like quips and quick gratification, you will not find it here. My story will take quite some time to write, presumably a bit less for you to read, but still it will be an investment. You are forewarned.
My Tinder Experience
I’m an older white male. Two years ago I had a profile on Tinder and matched with a younger black girl who had immigrated to Canada approximately one-and-a-half years prior. We conversed online. I was looking for something casual centered around sex. She was looking for someone who could take her around, provide restaurant meals, shopping trips, and generally make her feel special. I understand that there will be many people who are critical of this kind of relationship, but both of us were fine with it.
We met a few times just prior to the start of the pandemic. It’s my perception that we were both happy with our relationship, but the pandemic made it impractical to continue. We stopped meeting.
My Health Issues
Approximately 4 weeks after my last meeting with my Tinder date I developed a pain in my tongue. Not a sharp pain, but a constant ache. I didn’t think much of it, but after about a month I contacted my family physician for help. Everyone was in full lockdown mode at this juncture, and he does not use video calls, so I described my symptoms to him on the telephone and he prescribed an anti-fungal treatment (he still restricts himself to phone consultations to-this-day). The anti-fungal treatment ran for about a month and during this time I experienced the sudden onset of a constant ringing in my left ear. When I was in a noisy environment the ringing wasn’t very noticeable, but when I was trying to fall asleep at night it seemed annoyingly loud. At the end of my fungal treatment I reported that my tongue pain continued and also reported my new hearing issue. He told me to repeat the fungal treatment for another month and said that he would set up an appointment with an ENT specialist when the pandemic allowed. This was March 2020.
The second anti-fungal treatment was no more effective than the first. By June I was able to meet with the ENT specialist who conducted a hearing test then pronounced me f
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Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
