By Jennifer Browning Thomonde, HAITI--While the surgical team is working at Saint Bernard Mevs in Port-au-Prince, Morehouse School of Medicine along with George Washington University School of Medicine and School of Public Health is up in Haiti's central plateau working with Project Medishare's Haitian team. Morehouse...
Read MoreKimberly Green of the Green Family Foundation is currently featured on The Huffington Post in response to the recent "mud cookie" article by AP reporter, Jonathan Katz about malnutrition and hunger in Haiti. Kimberly has been an advocate for the people of Haiti since she...
Read MoreWhether it is a surgical trip in Port-au-Prince or the Bacom Palmer Eye Institute working in Marmont in the Central Plateau, Project Medishare documents its medical trips with its partnering universities not only here on the Project Medishare blog, but photographically on Flickr. Check out the...
Read MoreA recent Associated Press article alarmed many as they read about Charlene Dumas eating mud patties in Cite Soliel, one of Haiti's worst slums. Project Medishare for Haiti has been working to combat childhood malnutrition and related diseases in Haiti, still the poorest country in the...
Read MoreBy Julie Megler Thomonde, HAITI--Tonight officially marks the closure of our trip. Tomorrow will be our last day in the field. Today brought yet another highlight for all of us. A little more than a year ago, Zami Lasante (Partner’s in Health), opened...
Read MoreBy Julie Megler Thomonde, Haiti--The seventh evening of our adventure and we're indulging in our nightly ritual of counting pills as we listen to music off of Gaby's Ipod. There are thousands of them by the bottle. The whole process is meditatively monotonous, and...
Read MoreBy Julie Megler Central Plateau, HAITI--Today we split into two groups, half of us continued with another round of house visits and half visited one of the local schools. The house visits began with another rally post. We stood in thatched roofed structure with five or...
Read MoreBy Julie Megler Marmont, HAITI--Once again we found ourselves being tossed around like a bunch of hot potatoes in the back of the Medishare truck. We were accompanying Anna and Theresa, Medishare’s Cuban doctor and nurse, to the clinic in Marmont. We arrived to...
Read MoreUniversity of Miami Nursing student Julie Megler vaccinates a child at an immunization rally post in Circa, Haiti. Photo by Gabrielle Denis. By Julie Megler Circa, HAITI--Today we got a chance to see what community health really means first hand. We traveled to a...
Read MoreBy Julie Megler After a grueling three hours of waiting for a new part to fix a mechanical problem in our American Airlines flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Port Au Prince, and a short hour and twenty minute flight we found ourselves eagerly holding our passports...
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