Tag: Haiti
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Getting Haiti to stand again
Harvard authorities probe what needs to happen now, in six months, in a decade.
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Student concert to aid Haiti
Harvard’s student artists, in collaboration with the OfA, pull together to produce a two-hour benefit on Feb. 12 in Sanders Theatre.
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Harvard opens Haiti relief fund
Harvard University has established an emergency relief fund to assist employees who have been directly affected by the tragedy unfolding in Haiti.
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Relief for Haitian city
Putting aside their winter-break activities, an ad-hoc Harvard relief team in the Dominican Republic helps to ship boatloads of relief supplies to the coastal Haitian city of Jacmel.
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Students help Haiti
When the massive earthquake hit Haiti, a group of Harvard students working on a water purification project in the Dominican Republic switched gears to help transport supplies across the border.
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Medical workers gain momentum
Harvard-affiliated doctors report on carnage, rescue operations in quake-ravaged Haiti, as medical teams gain traction.
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Harvard mobilizes relief fund
Assistance mobilizes to aid earthquake-shaken Haiti, including groups of experts and medical personnel affiliated with Harvard.
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Harvard responds to Haiti crisis
A catastrophic earthquake in Haiti Tuesday (Jan. 12) has prompted a rapid-fire response of broad-based medical and humanitarian assistance from Harvard and its affiliates.
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Paul Farmer: One patient at a time
Paul Farmer remembers his patients and the lessons they’ve taught him, even the hard ones.
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Haiti clinic makes real gains
“13 October 2003.” Saintyl Louistess remembered the exact date she found out she had AIDS.
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Louise Ivers: A higher purpose
It was January 2008 and the baby – the youngest of four children – had been brought into the clinic Ivers heads at Boucan Carré, Haiti, after a period of vomiting and not eating well.
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Hospital brings hope to Haiti
A hospital opened in January where a year earlier cows grazed. There were banners and bands that bright day in the tiny community of Lacolline, Haiti.
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Louise Ivers: ‘I can’t sleep at night because of the things that I see.’
Louise Ivers gently lifted the 7-month-old by his forearms, hoping he would pull himself up as a healthy child a third his age might. But his head hung limply back,…
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Web of care
Lake Peligre fills the valley floor, its dark blue waters a relief to the eye after hours winding through central Haiti’s hot, treeless hills on the dusty, potholed road that passes for National Route 3.
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Haiti: Maternal mortality
A serious lack of healthcare infrastructure and an absence of reliable transportation leave Haitian women with few places to safely give birth.
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Haiti: Dr. Louise, a higher purpose
An assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and infectious disease specialist at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Louise Ivers works through the nonprofit organization Partners In Health.
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Haiti: Malnutrition
In Haiti, malnutrition is the most serious threat to pediatric health.
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Through a child’s eye
At first glimpse, the photos don’t seem particularly revealing: a fish on a plate, a television, clean dishes on a rack, a toddler with outstretched arms, a lighted porch. But to Wendy Luttrell, these pictures — and 1,600 others like them in her data base at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — open…