Posted on November 16, 2014 This month, the Global Ban Asbestos Network (GBAN), founded by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and the Brazilian Association of the Asbestos-Exposed (ABREA), celebrates its 4th anniversary! GBAN, a non-profit and independent initiative, was established to promote and facilitate international collaboration, communication, and action to achieve a global asbestos ban. There [...]
Posted on November 14, 2014 As the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) looks forward to our 11th International Asbestos Awareness Conference, April 17-19, 2015, I can’t help but also look back at how far we’ve come. In preparing the "Social Advocacy: Where Knowledge and Community Unite” poster for the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig) conference, I found it difficult to put ADAO’s 2004 - [...]
Posted on September 08, 2014 ADAO to Participate in 1st International ASEA Asbestos Safety and Management Conference in Australia Posted on November 10, 2014 The Australian Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency (ASEA) will host its 1st International Conference on Asbestos Awareness and Management on November 16-18, 2014 in Melbourne. The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is honored [...]
Posted on November 10, 2014 "A conference was held in Bogota called "Art, Science, and Politics" on November 5-7. Prior to this event, there were some reports in the local newspaper, El Tiempo. The spokesman for the asbestos industry (Ascolfibras), a businessman with a medical education, assured readers in one of these newspaper reports that, [...]
Posted on November 8, 2014 “Being a Meso Warrior Takes a Lot of Faith and Hope” – Jill’s Story The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) mourns the loss of our beloved Mesothelioma Warrior, Jill, who passed away on November 8, 2014, after an over 18-year courageous battle with mesothelioma. Jill, a wife, mother and grandmother, consoled, encouraged and [...]