[caption id="attachment_2375" align="alignleft" width="288" caption="Wilfred Messine works for Project Medishare today as a prosthetic technician in training and provides hope to other amputee patients. Photo by Omar Vega."][/caption] When Wilfred Messine was fitted with his prosthetic limb in April, he immediately began running and kicking a...
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZiUhsxxJc&fs=1&hl=en_US] Our local medical staff and volunteers, along with some of the people we serve would like to send you happy holiday greetings. To view their message click on the video above or click here. Thank you for all you've already done and, in advance, for all...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning You may have remembered reading on the Project Medishare Blog about how 9-month old Julisa was toddling across her house and stumbled into a pot of boiling water causing serious burns on her right arm and left hand. As her burns healed...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning On Friday, Dec. 10 Herold Charles was honored with a TeenNick HALO Award for his valiant effort to help people find loved ones after the Haiti earthquake. TeenNick awarded Herold with $20,000. Half would go towards his education and the other $10,000 would go...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning The final pieces are being put in place to finalize the Akamil Production Facility in Thomonde. Ground breaking began June 2007 for the construction of the facility, but construction and final equipment installment was delayed after the January 12 earthquake. When production begins,...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Last week the Associate Press reported that while many feared Haiti's growing epidemic would overwhelm the capital, so far, rural Haiti is seeing the worst of this epidemic that has killed over 1,900 people in less than two months. [caption id=""...
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHAuTF_PwuQ&fs=1&hl=en_US] By Jennifer Browning Give the gift of Caribbean beats when you give 'Revival' produced by Rhythms Del Mundo (RDM) in partnership with Artists Project Earth (APE), a British NGO focusing on disaster relief and climate awareness. With each of the tracks given the trademark RDM Afro-Cuban...
Read MoreAs demonstrations and protests continue in Port-au-Prince and across Haiti in response to election results announced Tuesday night, Project Medishare is taking every possible precaution to keep our patients, volunteers and local staff safe. At Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare, the hospital administers have activated our...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Holding her doll tightly to her chest, a bright-eyed smiling 8-year-old Eve* greeted the Project Medishare team providing a home visit. With the cholera epidemic looming over Haiti, Project Medishare's community health agents have increased the number of home visits normally conducted. These...
Read MoreCo-founder of Project Medishare and a physician at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Dr. Arthur Fournier was among the first doctors to treat patients with AIDS and to recognize the socioeconomic forces driving the epidemic. In The Zombie Curse: A Doctor's 25-year Journey into...
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