AED Leads Worldwide Effort to Prevent the Spread of Avian Flu (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News) The Academy for Educational Development (AED), a Washington-based nonprofit organization, is leading a worldwide effort to help the U.S. Agency for International Development in the prevention and control of avian influenza. The effort is part of the U.S. government's global emergency response to avian influenza. [News Source]