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GHESKIO Wins 2010 Gates Award for Global Health

  • Posted on: 18 May 2010
  • By: Bryan Schaaf

Groupe Haïtien d’Étude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infectieuses Opportunistes (GHESKIO) was selected as the 2010 winner of the prestigious Gates Award for Global Health.  The honor is well-deserved given GHESKIO’s innovative clinical service, research, and training programs and rapid response in treating those injured during the earthquake. GHESKIO's leadership is needed more than ever as the Haitian health care system is reconstructed.  The press release is below, a fact sheet and an interview with GHESKIO Director Bill Pape are attached, and finally click here to see the award ceremony.

Not Such a Surprise at All: Good News from Haiti on HIV/AIDS

  • Posted on: 6 July 2009
  • By: Bryan Schaaf

Associated Press Writer Jonathan Katz recently wrote an article entitled "From Haiti, a Suprise:  Good News about AIDS."  In reality, it is far from a suprise.  We've long known that Haiti has been, despite numerous challenges, one of only a handfull of countries to reverse its epidemic.  Treatment models pioneered here are being applied in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Haiti shows us what an engaged civil society and sustained political will, backed by international support, can accomplish in even the most difficult circumstances.  I am proud and hope you are as well.

Every Day is TB Day

  • Posted on: 27 March 2009
  • By: Bryan Schaaf

World TB Day was on March 24.  If this were a blog about HIV/AIDS, I could write about the progress that Haiti and the rest of the world is making.  However, this is a blog on tuberculosis and a fight we are losing.  More than two billion people, one third of the world’s total population, are infected with TB bacilli, the microbes that cause TB.  People living with HIV are at greater risk.  For Haiti, much more remains to be done.