Prenatal care on the road in Haiti

By Tisha Titus, MD, MPH
After several hours of rapid fire pregnant women in search of their first, and potentially only, prenatal visit, there is one patient for this day that stands out in my mind. I will wonder what has happened to her for months and maybe even years after returning home. I would like [...]

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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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Beyond Traditional Borders interns work with medical team in Thomonde

Beyond Traditional Border interns Jocelyn Brown and Kelly O’Connor demonstrate the Diagnostic Lab-in-a-Backpack to physicians, nurses, and technicians at the Project Medishare headquarters in Thomonde. Rice University’s Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative works to foster the creation of globally appropriate health technologies that address the pressing health needs of the developing world. Photo by Jennifer Browning.

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Check out Morehouse Medical School’s medical trip photos on Flickr!

By Jennifer Browning
Morehouse Medical School students and doctors worked this past week in Haiti with Project Medishare’s medical staff. The group helped Project Medishare conduct mobile clinics in Baille Touribe, Savant Plate, Marmont, and Savanne Perdu where each day they saw between 180-250 patients.
Click here to check out photos from their trip!

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A little hope in a brown paper bag

By William Moore
MARMONT, Haiti—As a Masters in Public Health (MPH) student at Morehouse School of Medicine with a focus on health education and health promotion, it was important to me to gain experience with educational preventive behavior in a developing world.
Today I only had one opportunity for sex education. One of the very first patients, [...]

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Learning on the job in Haiti

MPH student William Moore helps with triage in Marmont. Photo by Jennifer Browning.

By Jennifer Browning
MARMONT, Haiti—William Moore wasn’t sure what he needed to know during his volunteer trip in Haiti.
“It didn’t kick in till yesterday the importance and the requirements one needs to do a Medishare trip,” Moore said.
Working toward his Masters in Public Health [...]

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Breaking the language barrier for public health

By Ayanna Robinson
MARMONT, Haiti–As an Masters of Public Health (MPH) student, community health advocacy is an area that I pursue with passion. We are trained to be culturally competent with educational materials that are culturally sensitive. Even still, reaching your audience, especially with health education information is not an easy task. It becomes a [...]

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A chance for life

By Jennifer Browning
HINCHE, Haiti– As she was bathing her 4-year-old daughter in early June, Iralande Ulyss began noticing a walnut sized lump on her daughter’s back hip. The lump was palpable and firm to the touch. Three weeks later the mass had grown larger than a cantaloupe. Concerned for her daughter, Iralande brought Roselande to [...]

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UN’s MediaGlobal features Project Medishare’s medical student volunteer program

By Jennifer Browning
Medical volunteers and Haitians alike find a win-win situation when it comes to working together for community health in Haiti. Molly Slothower reflects this in her piece Future Doctors Volunteering in Haiti Gain Medical and Life Experience.
Slothower speaks to students who have recently volunteered in Haiti as well as those who have committed [...]

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Remembering a little girl in the pink dress

By Dione Occenad
SAVANT PLATE, Haiti—After our first exciting day of clinic, we were ready to get back on the road!  We traveled about 45 minutes to a village called Savant Plate.  We arrived at a small school where many people were anxiously waiting and getting registered by local health workers.  We divided into our separate [...]

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