"We lobbied very extensively to get New Jersey's bill passed and to raise awareness elsewhere," said Chad M. Ramsey, a spokesman for the Brady Center, which is allied with the Million Mom March, a grassroots activist group.
While American companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's are trying to raise their profiles in China, Chinese companies like Lenovo are trying to use the Olympics to spread brand awareness elsewhere.
The theme that ideas are the only immediate objects of awareness repeats itself elsewhere in Descartes' writings.
"A lot of work is being done in Africa, but we also have to raise awareness among communities elsewhere which have carried out FGM".
Tunisia and Belgium may be special cases, but the interconnected nature of the world thanks to information technology and globalization creates a widespread and acute awareness about opportunities elsewhere.
Peer education was also particularly effective in promoting men's sexual and reproductive health awareness, which has elsewhere been found to be a valuable way to improve men's sexual health, such as increasing condom use, delaying sexual debut and decreasing the likelihood of multiple concurrent partners (Foss et al. 2007; Cornish and Campbell 2009).
And he says of the WHO's decision: "I think it showed a callous lack of compassion for a devoted frontline clinician, especially since there is now awareness of equipped units elsewhere to which other patients have been evacuated and successfully treated". The combination of specialist equipment, drugs and a clean healthcare environment can have rapid results, he points out.
And, similarly, if "Living in Emergency" had stuck more closely to the conventions of movies that seek to raise Western awareness of terrible situations elsewhere in the world, it would have explored what is going on in Liberia and Congo, where most of the film takes place.
These allowed communities to formally communicate with each other, raise awareness of incidents occurring elsewhere, and to coordinate actions; as such, they became instrumental in managing the colonial response to enforcement of the Tea Act, the Intolerable Acts, and other unpopular British colonial legislation.
The component regarding STI awareness has been published elsewhere [ 20].
Elsewhere, however, heightened awareness of the risks of nuclear power has given coal another boost.
