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...
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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...
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