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Asian
American Donor Program
Category: Health
Description: Asian American Donor Program is dedicated to increasing the
availability of potential stem cell donors for patients with life threatening
diseases curable with a stem cell transplant. Stem cell recruitment includes:
Bone Marrow, Umbilical Cord Blood and Peripheral Blood stem cells. Some
of the services we offer are: Marrow/Stem Cell Tissue Typing Drives for
the community Umbilical Cord Blood Storage for community use Patient Referral
Services for patients with leukemia, aplastic anemia and other fatal blood
diseases.
Asian
Community Health Services
Category: Health
Description: Asian Community Mental Health Services provides and advocates
multilingual and multicultural family services that empower people to
lead healthy, productive and self-sufficient lives.
Parents
Helping Parents
Category: Health
Description: Helping children with special needs receive the resources,
love, hope, respect, heath care, education and other services they need
to achieve their full potential by providing them with strong families
and dedicated professionals to serve them.
Stanford
University Asian Liver Center
Category: Health
Description: To address the particular risks and treatment of liver diseases
prevalent in Asians and Asian Americans, the Asian Liver Center at Stanford
University was established in 1996 by Dr. Samuel So, Associate Professor
of Surgery, Director of the Stanford Multidisciplinary Liver Tumor Clinic,
and the Associate Director of the Liver Transplantation Program.
The three major functions and goals of the Asian Liver Center are: 1)
to serve as a clinical resource center for the public and health care
professional for information on the prevention, screening, diagnosis and
treatment of liver diseases and liver cancer; 2) to spearhead efforts
to formulate public health care policies and seek grant support to address
the special needs of the Asian-American community especially in the areas
of public education regarding the prevention and risks of hepatitis, screening
for liver cancer, and new drug therapy studies; and 3) to develop a clinical
and basic research program.
Asian
Perinatal Advocates
Category: Health
Description: Preventing Child Abuse and Domestic Violence...
APA's mission is to promote healthy Asian/Pacific Islander children and
families by providing family support services to prevent child abuse and
domestic violence. APA also advocates for culturally competent services
for Asians and Pacific Islanders through education, community building
and leadership development. APA is the only hospital-based agency offering
in-home family support services specifically for Asian Pacific Islander
families and children.
Assoc.
of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Category: Health
Description: Mission - To promote advocacy, collaboration and leadership
that improves the health status and access of Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders within the United States, its territories
and freely associated states, primarily through our member community health
clinics.
Asian Health Services Online
Category: Health
Description: Mission- To serve and advocate for the immigrant and refugee
Asian community regarding its health rights, and to assure access to health
care services regardless of income, insurance status, language, or culture.
The agency is located in Oakland, CA.
Office
of Minority Health. gov
Category: Health
Description: The mission of OMH is to improve the health of racial and
ethnic populations through the development of effective health policies
and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health.
Asian
& Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Category: Health
Description: Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum. Information
on health related issues.
Asian
American Health
Category: Health
Description: A comprehensive portal on Asian American and Pacific Islander
health issues
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