NEWS

• CNS announced a joint effort with the National Nutraceutical Research Institute: CNS and NNRI have agreed to develop jointly a nutraceutical formulation to be used by humanitarian and relief organizations around the world to restore and balance essential vitamins and electrolytes for pregnant mothers and young infants who are refugees or victims of natural disasters and war. The formulation, a dry powder which can be shipped quickly and reconstituted by mixing with water or other liquids, will be used by physicians and relief workers to stabilize the health of refugees least able to weather the stress and disease which comes from a weakened immune system. The U.N. Commission on Refugees has published disturbing information on how many deaths and permanent development diseases result from simply a lack of the basic essential minerals and other compounds needed during the last trimester and first three months of a child's life. The formulation will be available through CNS! for all qualified relief and humanitarian organizations at suppliers cost in Fall of 2000.
  
  
• A “Window on Western Sahara” is being opened for the U.S. into this remote yet important part of the world—an outgrowth of the Sahara Marathon, a joint project of the National Union of Sahrawi Women, Shelter for Life and the US Western Sahara Foundation—to increase awareness of the critical unmet medical, nutritional and educational needs of the Western Sahara refugee children. Over 180,000 refugees, driven from Western Sahara when Morocco invaded at the end of Spanish colonization in 1973, are struggling in the desert, waiting for the outcome of a UN monitored referendum on self-determination.
  
  21st Century Nutraceuticals, a Utah-based company and partner with the Center for Nutraceutical Studies, has become a major sponsor of the Sahara Marathon, and is providing nutritional supplements and direct grants to help the refugees conduct this race. Wayne Watson, president of the company, will join the Honorable Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Independent Arab Republic in the refugee camps in September to help continue the distance diagnosis partnership between CNS, the Medical University of South Carolina and the Sahrawi Physicians Society.  

OUTREACH

• CNS Initiates Distance Diagnosing in Western Sahara: Dr. David Gangemi conducting a distance diagnosis meeting with the Western Sahara refugee doctors in the Sahara desert and Dr. Peter Cotton at the Medical University of South Carolina. 
  
  
• CNS & Shelter for Life join in Tajikistan Project: CNS is partnering with SFL, an international humanitarian and relief organization dedicated to helping rebuild lives and communities of refugees, to rebuild the medical services of a northern Tajikistan province. Racked by a civil war and separation from the former Soviet Union, Tajikistan is losing its doctors because they are unable to earn income to rebuild their homes, hospitals and medical practices. CNS applauds SFL in what they are doing, and will be sending a team to northern Tajikistan in early October to take distance diagnosis equipment, nutraceutical supplements and provide direct funding to help the doctors purchase desperately needed equipment and medicines. 
  
  
• CNS Meets With Sahrawi Doctors: The doctors of the Western Sahara refugee camps must care for 200,000 refugees with little or no regular material or medicines. CNS will be providing nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals as part of their project with the Medical University of South Carolina.

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