Topic: Paul Farmer
On April 8th, 2010, I watched helplessly as the only oxygen machine in a poorly equipped Haitian clinic was taken from a premature baby and given ...
41 girls from Nyamirama Sector, Kayonza District, will be sent back to school through the Women and Girls Initiative (WGI) new Scholarship...
For those of you who have heard of Paul Farmer, you can probably imagine him trudging for miles to visit patients in their homes in rural Haiti or...
For those of you who have heard of Paul Farmer, you can probably imagine him in this scene: he is trudging for miles to visit patients in their...
The cholera epidemic in Haiti has cast a stark light on deep development holes and disagreements about whether a short-term patch-in the form of a...
MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. NGO plans to start a ground-breaking cholera vaccination campaign in Haiti in January, it said Wednesday, as experts warned that efforts to combat the year-old deadly epidemic were faltering badly.Paul Farmer, co-founder of Boston-based Partners in ...
0 . Thanks to the New York Post's Page Six, we can prepare ourselves. Rachel Uchitel, described by the tab as "Tiger Wood's alpha mistress," is...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Simply setting up clinics to treat Haitians with cholera is not doing anywhere near enough to tackle the epidemic there, health experts said on Friday, calling for intensive vaccination and more use of antibiotics.Their recommendation, published in the Lancet ...
That's the conclusion of a newly published health policy paper whose authors include Sanjay Gupta, Lance Armstrong, economist Jeffrey Sachs and global-health pioneer Paul Farmer as well as the head of the American Cancer Society and other public-health biggies. (The UN ...
The economic downturn has had a big impact on the mental wellbeing of people in the workplace, according to a study published on Monday.In a survey of 2,000 workers, mental health charity Mind found one in 10 had sought help ...