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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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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Dr. Vincent DeGennaro, Jr, a second-year internal medicine resident at Columbia Presbyterian in New York, recently returned from Haiti and posted this report and pictures. More photos can be seen here.
Having been to Haiti twice before, I can tell you that the conditions there were awful before the earthquake and that may color the...
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One of the themes for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ annual convention in October 2010 is “The State of the World’s Children.”
This is a call for writing for that convention—but a very unusual call, for unusual kinds of writing.
We are planning to develop a web site that will be a focal point for...
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