United States – Mexico Border Health Commission is soliciting proposals for the Financial and Compliance Audit of the Commission for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004. Please review the attached files and submit your proposal following the described guidelines before the close of business at 5:00 p.m. (MDT) on Friday, December 10, 2004. We thank you in advance for your interest in conducting a Financial and Compliance Audit for the Commission. For more information, please contact: Robert Guerrero Website: Financial…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, is soliciting grant and cooperative agreement initial proposals for projects in the California/Baja California and Arizona/Sonora Regional Workgroup regions that address the objectives of the U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program. The U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program is a binational collaborative effort whose mission is to protect the environment and public health in the U.S.-Mexico border region (100 kilometers either side of the U.S.-Mexico border) consistent with the principles of sustainable development. Website: US-Mexico Border 2012 Program:…

In an effort to help local and state health officials across the country redistribute flu vaccine to the “neediest” areas, the CDC recently launched a website that helps officials determine where vaccine supplies are “abundant and where they are scarce,” the New York Times reports. Because most health care providers are private entities, public health officials have little “information about how many flu vaccine doses are shipped and to whom”; the new website, however, lists the names of hospitals, clinics,…

As Canadian Internet pharmacies continue to market to American consumers in search of cheaper prescription drugs, many of the companies “are setting their sights on minority populations,” particularly Latino communities, the Boston Globe reports. Several of the companies now offer Spanish- or Portuguese-language versions of their websites and have begun advertising in local ethnic newspapers and radio stations, saying that “new sales are going to come from word-of-mouth referrals and connections to local communities where large numbers of people lack…

Dear Border Health Partners: On behalf of the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission (Commission), we would like to express our appreciation for your support of the Commission. The Commission continues its advocacy of border health issues through outreach offices, education and resource management along the 2000-mile stretch of borderland between the United States and Mexico. The Commission is proud to present to you its 2004 Annual Report and the recommendations to the U.S. and Mexico governments. The Commission, now in…

OFFICIAL TITLE AN INITIATIVE MEASURE AMENDING SECTIONS 16-152, 16-166 AND 16-579, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES; AMENDING TITLE 46, CHAPTER 1, ARTICLE 3, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, BY ADDING SECTION 46-140.01; RELATING TO THE ARIZONA TAXPAYER AND CITIZEN PROTECTION ACT. TEXT OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT Be it enacted by the People of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Short title This act may be cited as the “Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act”. Sec. 2. Findings and declaration This state finds that illegal immigration…

Illegal entrants died at record rate since Oct. 1 By Michael Marizco and Ignacio Ibarra ARIZONA DAILY STAR A $28 million U.S. border control strategy and an unprecedented effort by private advocacy groups failed to slow illegal entrant deaths in Southern Arizona this year, a compilation of records by the Arizona Daily Star shows. County medical examiner and Mexican consulate records document that 218 migrants died trying to cross into the United States through Arizona since last Oct. 1, the…

In attempt to avoid the woes of last year’s “severe” flu outbreak and subsequent vaccine shortages, health care workers are preparing for the flu season earlier this year, with some physicians even administering flu shots several weeks earlier than federal health officials recommend, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although health officials advise that the flu vaccination be given in October and November, they say there is “no danger that [the vaccine] will wear off before the flu season runs its…

A survey released last week by the National Council of La Raza found that a lack of bilingual health care workers in the South prevents “many Hispanic patients from seeking appropriate medical care,” the Associated Press reports. Surveyors interviewed Hispanic residents and health care workers in Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina—states where Hispanic communities recently have grown more rapidly than other states—and found that language barriers prevent local residents from seeking “much-needed medical care,” adding that Hispanic communities often have…

This funding opportunity is designed to identify competitive projects that increase the number of health professionals who are able to address the broad spectrum of children’s environmental health issues in their practices, in the institutions in which they work, in their communities and in academic settings. This solicitation focuses on developing multi-state (at least five states), national, or international (at least three countries) training/education programs for health professionals. These programs will help health professionals understand, diagnose, and develop prevention messages…