Urge your senator to co-sponsor the Kerry-Lugar Amendment

By Jennifer Browning
Last week, the Senate Budget Committee cut President Obama’s FY10 International Affairs Budget request by $4 billion. The International Affairs budget funds global AIDS programs and humanitarian aid to developing countries like Haiti, as well as critical development and diplomatic initiatives that will save live and improve America’s relations with the rest [...]

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Medical student sees promise in Akamil facility

By Tina Voltang
THOMONDE, Haiti—This morning, I felt a poke at my shoulder, and it was Mo telling me to hurry up so that we can squeeze in a walk around town before breakfast. We were going to tour the grounds of the Akamil facility.
As an undergraduate student at the University of Miami, my peers [...]

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UM team visits Project Medishare’s many programs

By Melissa Knight
THOMONDE, Haiti–Tonight, as I sat listening to the infamous Jerome play songs about Haitian history, poverty, and the ongoing struggle to survive, he emphasized how much he appreciated all that Project Medishare has done for the Central Plateau and how much the organization has changed the population’s way of life. To me, [...]

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University of Miami medical doctors and students visit Maternal Health Center construction site

By Jennifer Browning
Dr. Barth Green just reported in to let us know the University of Miami students are working hard with Project Medishare’s mobile clinic team. He sent us the above photo from his Blackberry as he stands with the Project Medishare/UM Global Institute team who were visiting the Maternal Health Center site this morning.The [...]

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Ban Ki-moon asks donors to invest in Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
During his previous trip to Haiti with former President Bill Clinton, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the students from the Haitian Education Leadership Program (HELP) that he saw them as “seeds of hope” for their country. In his article in the opinion section of the New York Times today, Ban expresses how [...]

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Neurosurgery team returns to Haiti for assessment

By Jennifer Browning
The Project Medishare neurosurgery team returned to Haiti this past Saturday for a neurological assessment at La Paix Hospital in Port-au-Prince. The team assessed 67 cases of children with various neurological problems such as hydrocephalus, micro-cephalic, brain tumors and spinal bifida. The team saw 57 new cases. The doctors had 35 [...]

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Receiving support from within Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
Recently a group of young Haitian professionals in Port-au-Prince have joined together to form the “Support Group of Project Medishare in Haiti.” The organization has dedicated themselves in assisting Project Medishare in the funding of the Akamil Production Facility in Thomonde which is scheduled for completion in June.
The Akamil Production Facility will be [...]

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Project Medishare makes a commitment to clean water

By Jennifer Browning
With today marking World Water Day, Project Medishare has taken on the commitment to repairing a broken water cistern in Marmont where currently the new maternity ward is also under construction.
Clean water plays an important role in not only preventing illness, but also plays a large part in decreasing infant mortality.
Safe drinking water [...]

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GW team shadows home visits with a community health supervisor

By Maureen Collins, MPH
Happy St. Josef’s Day! Today we were able to tune down what our typical day has looked like thus far. The town celebrated its 80th anniversary of St. Josef, the main church here in Thomonde. The group split up and either got dressed up to attend mass at St. Josef — or [...]

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Mobile clinic finds a difficult day

By Esther Molnar
Today was probably one of the most difficult days in terms of the poverty and lack of medical care that we saw. We set up clinic in a remote village at the base of the mountains. This by far was one of the most beautiful locations we have been to this week. However, [...]

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