NPR recently profiled two Kenyan brothers who started a health clinic in Western Kenya, where they’re from. Milton and Fred Ochieng’ attended Dartmouth for undergrad before heading to medical school at Vanderbilt. Milton graduated last year and seems to be doing his residency at Wash U; brother Fred is still in medical school. They lost both parents [...]
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Two AIDS Orphans Start Health Clinic in Kenya
Posted in Africa, Kenya, developing countries, globalization, health, hiv/aids, non-profit, tagged media, public health, Kenya, globalization, health, health-care, Africa, HIV, AIDS, students, milton ochieng, film, rural Africa, AIDS orphans on 26 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bangladeshi housewives tackle TB
Posted in Asia, developing countries, non-profit, women, tagged Asia, bangladesh, public health, tuberculosis, women on 16 October 2007 | 1 Comment »
I recently came across an article in the International Herald Tribune describing how a grassroots effort that uses ordinary housewives as health workers has managed to dramatically increase TB detection rates. In Bangladesh, where private groups have stepped in to take charge of the country’s national tuberculosis treatment program to compensate for the government’s corrupt [...]
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