Search Results For Issue: Medical Education
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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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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Case Management Program
Due to a myriad of health, emotional and physical protection issues experienced by unaccompanied refugee children and youth, comprehensive case management support is necessary to ensure success in our other programs. Heshima Kenya provides the follow ... Read More
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Causes for Change Programs
Through outreach and education, Causes for Change International seeks to build strong communities by providing the tools for self-sufficiency. We supply medical assistance and training in health and economics to areas in need. We focus on children, w ... 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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Educational Support
RISE provides educational support through training workshops conducted by teams who travel with RISE to Angola on a Pilgrimage of Service. AIDS education and prevention is also taught through the It Takes Courage! curriculum. Leaders and teachers are ... 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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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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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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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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Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
Hansen's Disease, historically called leprosy, is one of the world's most feared and misunderstood diseases. While it is rare in developed countries such as the United States, it is very much present in impoverished areas of Asia, Africa, and South ... 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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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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Project CHAI
World Bicycle Relief in support of CHAI – the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative – provided 300 bicycles to people across six different countries to help specific HIV/AIDS initiatives in Africa. The bicycles were provided to healthcare workers ad ... 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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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