Honor your mother by making a donation to improving maternal healthcare in Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
For some mother’s in Haiti, this Mother’s Day will not be a day of celebration. In particularly in Haiti’s Central Plateau, the high rate of maternal mortality remains a challenge. Haiti’s statistics regarding maternal mortality are among the highest in the Caribbean: 1 out of every 37 female deaths is linked to a [...]

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Haiti gains support of global donors

By Jennifer Browning
On Tuesday, foreign donors and international financial institutions renewed their commitment to Haiti, pledging at least $324 million toward the country’s economic recovery over the next two years.
During the day long conference donors pledged to focus on better coordination of international support for the poverty-stricken nation. The money raised will be used to [...]

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Celebrate world health

By Jennifer Browning
Today, World Health Day, marks the anniversary of the 1948 founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). This year’s focus is on the need to make hospitals and health facilities safe in disasters and other emergencies.
In Haiti, Project Medishare is dedicated to making sure its hospitals and clinics are safe. In 2006, [...]

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Neurosurgical team arrives in Port-au-Prince

By Jennifer Browning
PORT-Au-PRINCE, Haiti–Seventeen people arrived in Haiti yesterday as part of Project Medishare’s Neurosurgical team which were composed of neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, nurse anesthesiologists, pediatricians and students. The group was there to help children with various neurological problems such as hydrocephalus, micro-cephalic, brain tumors and spinal bifida.
The team began performing surgeries La Paix Hospital at [...]

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Senate approves Kerry-Lugar amendment restoring President Obama’s FY 2010 budget request for international affairs

By Jennifer Browning
Today the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent approved an amendment to the 2010 fiscal year budget resolution that would recommend international affairs programs be funded at President Obama’s request of $53.8 billion.
Both the House and Senate budget resolutions originally called for lower allocations to international affairs than the President outlined in February. The [...]

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A mobile clinic in remote Boucantis

By Shayla Hesse
BOUCANTIS, Haiti–While yesterday we took in the lay of the land and got acclimated to our new surroundings, today we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. After a fortifying breakfast we broke up into teams, each one focused on a specific patient population. We received a quick briefing and then climbed [...]

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