Search Results For Issue: Affordable and Accessible Healthcare
Access to Healthcare
In rural Western Kenya, access to health care is almost non-existent for a large share of the population. There are hospitals in some of the larger towns and in the cities, but the rural poor cannot get there, because their only means of transportati ... Read More
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Arzu Community
While Arzu directly helps weavers and their families we also believe it is important to extend benefits where possible to the larger community. Arzu shared the construction costs of a new school in the Faryab province, where many of our weavers live. ... Read More
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Arzu Education
Arzu's social contract requires that all children under the age of 15, and at least one woman from each household attend education classes that cover literacy, basic numeracy and units on health, hygiene, nutrition and human rights. In 2006 we began ... Read More
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Arzu Healthcare
ARZU strategically focuses on addressing Afghanistan’s highest public health priority – lowering the maternal death rate. Our healthcare services include weekly visits by our health monitors to weavers’ homes, 4-wheel drive transportation to cl ... Read More
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Arzu Worker Safety
In 2007 Arzu implemented a worker safety program to address ailments common to carpet weavers. We trained our Health Monitors to understand the symptoms of TB, and brought women in Kabul and Andkhoi to clinics for TB tests. We provide surgical masks ... Read More
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Benin: Medical InterAction: Linking Sustainable Ecology and Medial Innovation
Contacts and relationships have been developed with colleagues in Benin that crosscuts various areas: health and illness, poverty and sustainability, environmental concerns, traditional and medical sciences/health treatment and education. We plan to ... Read More
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Blindness Prevention
Worldwide there are some 161 million visually impaired people, 37 million of whom are blind. It is estimated that 75% of blindness is avoidable; that is, it is either treatable or preventable. If immediate measures are not taken, the number of blind ... Read More
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Bolivia: Project Ninos
The Center for Global Initiatives collaborated with the Flying Doctors of America in a pioneering and critical project. We were the first non-Bolivian group to be granted access to three Bolivian prisons. Hundreds of children live with their parent(s ... Read More
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Cambodia: SMART: Sustainable Medical Arts, Research, & Technology
We are developing a project that will bring training and potentially telehealth services to rural areas that is delivered by indigenous village women. Public heath, primary care, first aid, and emergency services are all but absent in rural areas of ... Read More
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Chronic Disease Management
Diabetes and hypertension are serious, chronic diseases that need constant maintenance. Poorly managed diabetes can lead to strokes, blindness, heart disease, kidney failure, foot amputations and nerve damage. Untreated hypertension puts patients at ... Read More
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Continued Medical Training
The advancement of medical technology and access to research findings allow health care providers to continually enhance the care they provide to patients. Additionally, health care providers benefit from having an ongoing dialog and exchange of idea ... Read More
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Foundation for Children in Need
The Foundation helps provide shelter, education, clean water, medical care, and clothing for thousands of individuals, from children and students to elderly. A reforestation project is planting trees as well. Read More
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Fund for BME Design in Healthcare, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Global Health Summit
Each year, the GlobeMed Global Health Summit brings together GlobeMed members from across the country to learn from leaders in global health. Read More
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globalhealthU
As part of globalhealthU, students organize discussions and public events on their campuses to build a critical understanding of global health issues. Read More
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Health
Distribution of health kits to returnees, donation of dental chairs and other medical equipment to the Bie Central Hospital. Read More
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Health Care Initiatives
Project Harambee recruits lay and medical volunteers to provide outreach and services to those impacted by HIV/AIDS. Read More
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Health Partnerships
Our Health Partnerships enable students to improve global health by mobilizing the resources of their university campuses to support partner grassroots health organizations throughout the world. Read More
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Healthcare
To live healthy, to be free of disease and suffering, to be able to breathe the open air, to play, to learn and to work; these all seem like simple requests and yet for millions around the world these simple human rights are unattainable. It is consi ... Read More
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HIV/AIDS Conferences
Key elements of our program in Cameroon are four-day conferences for clergy and community leaders. Focused on education, the intense conferences provide training and practical approaches to attacking the ignorance, stigma, and discrimination surround ... Read More
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HIV/AIDS Testing, Education, and Treatment
Though Mwangaza's focus is on the treatment of children with disabilities, we could no longer ignore the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. Working together with Selian Hospital and the Arusha Community Church we have two children on antiretroviral treatmen ... Read More
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Holistic Resources to Mongu in the Western Province of Zambia
Agriculture
-Training, technical assistance and resource development in production and post harvest management for over 1000 rural farm families
-Development of agricultural business services to create markets for farmer crops
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India: WorldWise
Through a collaborative with partners in rural India who have developed a comprehensive, community-based primary health care approach, we are helping to recruit students for summer experiences that will provide life changing perspective on healthcare ... Read More
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Kumba HIV/AIDS Treatment Center
The Cameroon America AIDS Alliance (CAAA) HIV/AIDS Treatment Center in Cameroon has provided free HIV testing and treatment to hundreds of men, women and children since opening on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006. The clinic, based in Kumba, is direc ... Read More
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Maternal and Child Health
The future health of our global family depends largely on the health of infants and children and their mothers, who act as primary care givers and educators. Women also play an important role in the health of communities and families by serving as mi ... Read More
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Medical Mission
The Medical Mission is a partnership between U.S. and Bolivian medical personnel, primarily surgical, who serve the poor in their critical health needs. On each mission trip, we provide roughly $60,000 worth of medical supplies, medicines and equipme ... Read More
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Nicaragua-Direct
We need almost anything that can be shipped or taken along to Nicaragua. More specifically: Basic, over the counter, Medicine - Bandages - Tooth Brushes and Paste - Wheel Chairs - Walkers and Canes. School Supplies: Pencils - Erasers - Rulers - ... Read More
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Preventative Healthcare
Coprodeli provides preventative healthcare and humanitarian aid to the most impoverished families in Peru. Doctors, dentists, lab technicians, and pharmacists from the United States, Europe, and Peru volunteer their time to improve and, in many cases ... Read More
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Primary School Health Education
Mwangaza learned that many disabilities can be prevented through early treatment, education and improving health and hygiene. We have designed health education seminars for primary school students and teach these classes on a regular basis. Topics ... Read More
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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Internationally, Heartland Alliance Provides a variety of protection and support services for victims of sexual and gender-based violence. Programs include support for individual victims through psychosocial, medical, and legal services. A focus on t ... Read More
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Surgical Treatment for Disabled Children
Mwangaza travels to remote villages to identify disabled children and assist them in getting plastic and orthopedic surgical procedures to correct clubfoot, cleftlip and bone deformities caused by excess flouride in drinking water, as well as burn co ... Read More
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Sustainable Development in Southern Sudan
- Provide clean drinking water by digging water wells for the community.
- To establish effective health programs geared towards combating common diseases through health education, and training of health personnel.
- To provide educationa ... Read More
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Tanzania: THRIVE
The kindergarten we helped to found in 2005 is expanding its scope via THRIVE. We are using education as a basis for developing resilience of the orphans as well as those providing healthcare in the neighboring clinic/hospital. We will be developing ... Read More
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Tuberculosis Treatment
Despite the fact that TB is a treatable disease, it has assumed epidemic proportions in India, claiming the lives of 400,000 and newly infecting 2.2 million every year. India has the highest proportion of its population, 3.3 per capita, infected with ... Read More