More than three decades after the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 1988, the world’s leading global health organization faces another public health crisis in COVID-19. On this World AIDS Day, those who raised awareness of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, find devastating similarities and haunting differences in America’s response to both c…
Read moreThe COVID-related increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits has come to an end in 32 states, along with the District of Columbia, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
More than 41 million Americans will be affected by the change, and many families are expected to receive at least $95 less per month beginning March 1, according to the research and policy think ta…
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Here in the U.S., we hear a lot about how legacy automakers are racing to catch up to Tesla and capture a piece of the growing electric vehicle market. Tesla has a head start, but GM, Ford, and Stellantis have poured billions into their respective efforts to catch up.
In the glob…
Read moreA decade ago, someone knocking on your door to sell you solar panels would have been selling you solar panels. Now, they are probably selling you a financial product—likely a lease or a loan.
Mary Ann Jones, 83, didn’t realize this had happened to her until she received a call last year from GoodLeap, a financial technology company, saying she owed $52,564.28 for a solar panel l…
Read moreHarry Li is conflicted. Ideally, the law student wants to spend the Lunar New Year holiday in his home village in northern China’s Hebei province, but he is afraid of spending more than 12 hours on crowded trains and buses lest he brings COVID-19 to his elderly parents, who have not been vaccinated. “It’s been three years since I’ve been home [for Lunar New Year],”…
Read moreIt’s the news that the HIV community has been waiting four long decades for: the hint that maybe, just maybe, HIV can be cured.
Dr. Xu Yu, a principal investigator at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, as well as an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, had to check and recheck her results to be sure. In one of her patients, …
Read moreChanel has published a report on its eco-sustainability strategy
Chanel, a signatory of last September’s Fashion Pact, has announced its intention of aligning with the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, aimed at limiting the planet’s mean global temperature increases to 1.5° Celsius. To do so, the label has identified four…
Read moreThe list details around 1,100 factories following an extensive period of mapping and auditing starting in 2020.It comes as the company also said that the 17 recommendations from the Independent Review were broken down into 34 deliverables as part of its Agenda for Change. So far, it has completed 28 of these. The remainder are “expected to be completed in the coming months”.
It also s…
Read moreIn 2022, 292 M&A deals were finalised in the luxury industry, as opposed to 284 in 2021, only eight more, a 2.8% increase. One notable operation last year was the $2.3 billion acquisition of the Tom Ford label by US beauty giant Estée Lauder. M&A deals in the personal luxury goods sector accounted for 43.2% of the industry’s total, and their number was down by 30 last yearคำพูดจา…
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