By Constance Harrell HINCHE, Haiti---Meeting the Hinche commune’s minister of health was both inspiring and revealing of how much of the international medical work connects with the local health workers. Kathleen, Jen, and Matt, three Gyn/Oncology doctors from MD Anderson who have been running...
Read MoreBy Sameer Kapadia CASSE, Haiti---First day of clinic and I started off in pediatric triage. It was wild. I have never felt as much anxiety taking a blood pressure reading as I did taking the first one of the day. Let me set the scene:...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Because Rome's U.N. Food and Agriculture offices are unheated at night, U.N. Food Chief Jacques Diouf bundled up with a hat, scarf and overcoat over his pajamas and spent the night on a makeshift mattress in an effort to draw attention to the...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Don't miss out on hearing Edwidge Danticat read at the REBUILD HAITI: MISSION POSSIBLE event. Today is the final day to RSVP. The fundraiser will feature Haitian-American writer and 2009 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Award,” Edwidge Danticat. Danticat is known for her contemporary...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Double your giving spirit this holiday season by doing your shopping online with online partners like GoodShop, iGive, and Donation Street. Instead of bracing yourself for a season of jam-packed parking lots and crowded stores find that perfect something for that perfect someone,...
Read More[blip.tv ?posts_id=2819588&dest=-1] By Jennifer Browning If you missed the panel discussion "Meeting the Challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A Progress Report from the Poorest Country in the Americas." You can see it in the embedded video above or by going directly to the CSIS...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Dr. Barth Green, Project Medishare's co-founder, will be joining UN’s Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer and Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph during the panel discussion “Meeting the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning In November, Project Medishare's Co-Founder, Dr. Barth Green will join UN’s Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer and Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph during the panel discussion “Meeting the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A...
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