Now, a week later, Hurricane Matthew brings the people who have endured such hardship to their knees again. I won’t look away, but will hold my gaze on Haiti.
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My First Disaster
By: Kathryn Hearn They say you never forget your first disaster. For me, it occurred this summer as I was part of the team from MAP International responding to the floods in Louisiana. Louisianans are no strangers to flooding conditions, but this flooding was unprecedented. Nothing could prepare me for what we were going to […]
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Helping Special Children Lead a Full Life
Living with a disability isn’t easy. Because I was adopted by an American family, I received excellent health care and today live a full life. But other children aren’t as fortunate.
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Lives at Stake: Seeing Zika Firsthand
By Katie Pace When the members of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, planned their mission trip to the Dominican Republic they hoped to work on a building project and teach Vacation Bible School. But when they were able to take Medical Mission Packs from MAP International, they learned how they could save lives while protecting themselves […]
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The Modern Mission Trip
Every year, MAP International provides more than 1,300 MAP Medical Mission Packs to volunteers traveling overseas.
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The Philanthropic Side of Pharma
It’s easy to get the wrong impression about the pharmaceutical industry. But, more often than not, discussions center on “how will this help the patient?” not “how can we make money?”
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World Health Day 2016: Beating Diabetes
Last week, the World Health Organization focused its 2016 World Health Day on beating diabetes – a chronic disease that MAP and our partners have been fighting for decades.
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MAP International Travels to Rural Guatemala to Provide Relief
Last month, a team from MAP International traveled to rural Guatemala. We found a lack of high concern about Zika, perhaps because we found much more prevalent problems.
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World Leprosy Day
World Leprosy Day is celebrated on Sunday, January 31 to coincide with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. Gandhi worked tirelessly to impact those afflicted with leprosy.
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Treating the little-known Buruli ulcer
I am in Liberia this week to celebrate the delivery of a large shipment of medicines and medical supplies valued at $6.5 million to treat people from the tropical disease Buruli ulcer.
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Food as medicine
Atlanta is known as a center of global health activity. We are anchored in a state with a strong agricultural base, as well.
What do these two things have in common?
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Nothing Wrong With Brain Surgery, But …
Though pay scales and prestige do not suggest it, Atlanta’s schools of public health are more valuable to global health than the highly-specialized physicians we tend to prize here in the U.S.
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Neglected… No more
The big news recently is the $28.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Task Force for Global Health targeting “Neglected Tropical Diseases” (NTDs).
