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Apr 6, 2008
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." --Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
One Woman Dedicated to Healing Haiti
"I've had more children dying in my arms than most people have ever experienced in their whole lives," Louise Ivers said. "I was thinking of the people I know in Ireland and the U.S., and most people don't know anyone whose child has died. Yet this is just everyday stuff. And we only see the half of it." Ivers has been steadily seeing more and more of the health care picture around Boucan Carre, Haiti, in the five years she's been there. The number of patients coming to the clinic each day has grown dramatically from between 10 and 15 in early 2003 to as many as 300 a day in 2008. An assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and infectious disease specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Ivers works in a gradually expanding clinic through the nonprofit organization Partners In Health.
BE THE CHANGE
Paul Farmer, pioneering human rights activist-doctor-professor, gives The Tanner Lecture on Human Values: "Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights," in which he draws connections between global health and human rights and between disease and violence. (PDF, 650KB) More ...
