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By Jennifer Browning
After spending a week with Project Medishare’s staff in Thomonde, Haiti, the medical students from the University of Miami are making their way back to the United States today.
A few of their photos have been posted up on Project Medishare’s Flickr site. Check them out here.

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Comparing perspectives while working in Haiti

By Elizabeth Greig
CENTRAL PLATEAU, Haiti–The suggestions for preventative health measures available to Americans in this week’s time would probably get a few confused looks and laughs from the people of the Central Plateau. A quote highlighted in bold reads, “Ideally, I want you to be sweaty for an hour every day.” Haitians, I assure you, [...]

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School houses serve as makeshift clinics

By Drew Martowski
CENTRAL PLATEAU, Haiti–The prior two days of mobile health clinics have taken place in schoolhouses. The simple reason for this seems to be that they are the only completed buildings other than churches that can afford adequate space and shade to serve the numbers of people that our presence attracts. The infrastructure available [...]

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Sometimes it’s simply about alleviating pain

By Ronine Zamor
CENTRAL PLATEAU, Haiti–I saw this patient during my first visit to Haiti six months ago. Back then, she was a 10 year-old girl who couldn’t walk and had terrible bumps all over her skin. No one could figure out what the problem was so she was taken to the hospital. [...]

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University of Miami medical team returns to Thomonde

By Jennifer Browning
Continuing their strong partnership with Project Medishare and their committment to the people in Haiti’s Central Plateau, students and doctors from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine are traveling back to Haiti today.
During their trip, the team will travel and work with Project Medishare’s Haitian medical staff as they conduct mobile [...]

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