Megan McIntosh Frenzen writes:
In Uganda, every single day is astounding, in both good and bad ways. The morning commute to Bwindi Community Hospital (BCH) is very short but very interesting. It’s a bumpy dirt road with enormous ruts, loose baseball sized stones and the occasional gigantic puddle after storms pass through. Our fellow...
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Megan McIntosh Frenzen writes:
We are exhausted at the end of every very long workday and, in many ways, it feels like we’ve already been here for a month. If you’re interested in hearing what’s up in Uganda, read on. It’s lengthy, so get comfortable. Or, if you prefer, just read the first and last...
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Farah Ghuznavi writes:
It started out like any other evening at home. When we sat down at the table, I was excited to see the red spinach and shrimp dish that had been served with dinner. Although I was nearly nine years old, I hadn’t yet got over the childish sense of pleasure to be...
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By Audrey Merriam
As a future Ob-Gyn, I spent a month in Dhaka, Bangladesh doing research on first-hour breastfeeding–the act of putting the infant to the breast within the first hour of life. The ingestion of much if any milk–considered colostrum or first-milk at this point–is not even considered the most important part of...
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By Tara Song
At 4:00pm, I show up for my first day at the Special Care Unit of the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) to observe afternoon rounds.
The room is quiet, except for an occasional burst of crying from one of the tiny patients. The SCU currently houses about ten infant patients...
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Photo by Suzanne Germain
Descending the bumpy drive of the Hopital de la Commaunite Haitienne in Port au Prince, Haiti, on Good Friday, we passed a woman in a T-shirt that proclaimed, in bright pink letters, “Shut up and dance.”
Dancing is big in Haiti. Only the night before, I walked up the steep rocky roads...
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The cemetery is next to the hospital, situated as if to avoid a long walk for the mourners of the dead. The road is dusty, rutted and unpaved.
A masonry wall blocks the view to the interior of the burial grounds. The rusted gate yields to a strong push. There is a large field, overgrown...
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Trauma surgeon Dr. Steve Johnson arrived at Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on January 20th, 2010. He and twenty one other volunteers were eager to make a difference in Haiti, and the following day they would arrive in Jacmel, Haiti, where their efforts would help save many lives. The following are edited entries...
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Dr. Jane Aronson is Director of International Pediatric Health Services, PLLC, and CEO of Worldwide Orphans Foundation
We spent the day in the city surrounded by rubble. The driving from one destination to another in heavy traffic allowed us to see some of the scope of the disaster, but tomorrow we will go to the...
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Lubna Yeasmin, at the time a student at the James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, wrote this first-person field report on the MANOSHI maternal, neonatal and child health project. The photographs are hers.
The raw sewage from Gulshan—one of the posh areas of Dhaka, popular with elites and diplomats—runs down...
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