Project Medishare sponsors events in Casse/LaHoye for World AIDS Day today

By Jennifer Browning
For World AIDS Day today, Project Medishare will have a memorial in remembrance of those who have succumbed to the disease. The memorial will take place in Casse/Lahoye. Following the memorial, four small group sessions will be held in four densely populated areas. This afternoon various youth groups will perform presentations involving theater [...]

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REBUILD HAITI: Mission Possible 2009

By Jennifer Browning
For the second year in a row, Coral Gables Congregational Church will host REBUILD HAITI: MISSION POSSIBLE.
The fundraiser will feature Haitian-American writer and 2009 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Award,” Edwidge Danticat. Danticat is known for her contemporary work of Haitian heritage writing in English from her award-winning 1994 debut, Breath, Eyes, Memory [...]

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UTHSCSA wins $10,000 grant for Project Medishare on Ideablob.com

By Jennifer Browning
Since their first partnering trip with Project Medishare in December 2008, University of Texas Health and Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA) has been working toward raising enough money to send two medical groups to Haiti in 2010.
They received quite a boost after the group won a $10,000 grant from Ideablob.com this month.
UTHSCSA [...]

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Send holiday cheer to Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
Coral Gables Congregational Church (CGCC) is partnering again with Project Medishare this holiday season to provide toys for children in Thomonde and Marmont. The church annually hosts an Angel Tree/Toy Drive campaign and chose  the children of Haiti be the beneficiaries of the toy drive campaign once again this year.
CGCC collected toys last [...]

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UM fraternity repairs and donates computers to Project Medishare’s health care workers

By Jennifer Browning
Last Spring, juniors Ananth Sastry and Ashish Shah from University of Miami’s Delta Epsilon Psi Fraternity boarded their flight to Port-au-Prince with four newly repaired computers. Health care agents now use those computers in participation with Project Medishare’s Community Health Program.
The fraternity, which joined UM’s greek life last Fall, voluntarily [...]

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GHESKIO research featured in New England Journal of Medicine

By Jennifer Browning
The Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) was featured in the August 20 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine where follow-up data was released regarding the detailed outcomes of GHESKIO patients after five years of receiving anti-retroviral therapy (ART).
Prior to using ART in Haiti (2003), [...]

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Paul Farmer appointed Deputy U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
Rumors that Paul Farmer was under consideration for the position of USAID Director have been put to rest. Last week, Paul farmer was appointed Deputy U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti. Former President and U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton said Farmer’s “credibility both among the people of Haiti and in the international [...]

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Preparing the land

Local farmers in Thomonde, Haiti work in a Project Medishare trial field. This is the second trial field in the area. The first field agronomists are testing corn, soy beans, peppers, and a variety of grains. This field includes mango trees and peanuts. Project Medishare hires local farmers to help plant and manage the trial [...]

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Portable diagnostic equipment brought to Medishare team

By Jocelyn Brown and Kelly O’Connor
As interns from the Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative at Rice University, we demonstrated the capabilities of the Diagnostic Lab-in-a-Backpack to the Project Medishare team. The mission of the Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative is to foster the creation of globally appropriate health technologies that address the pressing health needs of [...]

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Atlanta photographer meets another Haiti

By Nick Vitone
I recently traveled to Haiti to photograph a team of medical students and professionals from Emory University who were working on partnership with Project Medishare.  The trip was designed to offer surgeries to patients in the central plateau, who might not otherwise be able to improve their health.
For me, the first trip to [...]

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