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The following are stories of outstanding individuals or initiatives that go well beyond the limits of institutionalized health care to provide services to groups in need. Such heroics occur regularly across the world and, sometimes, right around the corner without us knowing it. |
Synopsis: Dr. Michael Jong, Director of NorFam in Labrador and Dr Patty Vahn, who works in emergency medicine at Sioux Lookout Ontario, share their thoughts with us during a break at The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada: Rural and Remote Medicine course at the Hyatt Regency in Toronto.
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Synopsis: In a country with few doctors, Silva Chironda by necessity is a "surgeon nurse", betterknown in Mozambique as a "tecnico" . Week in week out Silva will carry out more surgery than the busiest consultant in the Western world. For many Mozambicans, "tecnicos" like Silva are their only hope.
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Synopsis: Mobile Outreach Street Health - Taking it to the Streets in Halifax's North End
We've all heard of lunch trucks... but a mobile clinic, now that's health care getting innovative!
We've all heard of lunch trucks... but a mobile clinic, now that's health care getting innovative!
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Synopsis: A new documentary about the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in some of the world's most vulnerable communities. Between 2002 and 2010 the global fund has committed over 19 billion dollars in 144 countries. In just a few years, dramatic improvements have gone in the fight against the world's three major killer diseases. Approximately, 7 million people have been treated for active tuberculosis, bed net protect hundreds of millions of african mothers and children from malaria. and 2.8 million people have received anti retroviral treatment for HIV. Change can happen.
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Synopsis: Gyuri is a very spirited boy. He loves to sing and dance and wants to become a police officer. Or maybe a truck driver. He wants to "become everything. Except for a shop clerk." In this video from Amnesty International, Roma life is seen through the eyes of a hopefu young boy.
Gyuri lives with his parents on Primaverii Street in the Romanian city of Miercurea Ciuc. The street is home to a group of 75 Roma, living in metal cabins. They were forcibly evicted from their homes in 2004. It was just temporary, they were told. But six years later, the families still live in hazardous and uncertain circumstances. The cabins offer insufficient protection against the rain and cold, and the stench of the nearby sewage plant is unbearable. Right beside the cabins there is a sign: 'Toxic danger'.
Thanks to Romani CRISS, the Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies, a non-governmental organization working for the rights of Roma in Romania. Romani CRISS provides legal assistance in cases of abuse and works to combat and prevent racial discrimination against Roma in all areas of public life, including the fields of education, employment, housing, and health.
http://www.amnesty.ca
Gyuri lives with his parents on Primaverii Street in the Romanian city of Miercurea Ciuc. The street is home to a group of 75 Roma, living in metal cabins. They were forcibly evicted from their homes in 2004. It was just temporary, they were told. But six years later, the families still live in hazardous and uncertain circumstances. The cabins offer insufficient protection against the rain and cold, and the stench of the nearby sewage plant is unbearable. Right beside the cabins there is a sign: 'Toxic danger'.
Thanks to Romani CRISS, the Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies, a non-governmental organization working for the rights of Roma in Romania. Romani CRISS provides legal assistance in cases of abuse and works to combat and prevent racial discrimination against Roma in all areas of public life, including the fields of education, employment, housing, and health.
http://www.amnesty.ca
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Synopsis: Here is a documentary short featuring the Media Advocates for Prevention program, a youth HIV prevention program based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The program is funded by the Centre for Disease Control and is headed by the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies.
http://www.myspace.com/map_nola
http://www.myspace.com/map_nola
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Synopsis: June is the start of the rainy season in Ethiopia. Here in the east, not far from the Sudanese border, the land has become a vast swamp. In the western part of the Gambella region, the roads and fields are flooded and the population, left isolated. The only way to provide healthcare is by boat, and Doctors Without Borders surely delivers.
www.msf.ca
www.msf.ca
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Synopsis: Everyday, cholera treatment centres receive close to 2000 patients. Haiti still lies prey to the cholera epidemic that broke out in October, killing more than 2000 people.
Médecins Sans Frontières remains very alert and active. The organisation's teams have treated 62,000 people in 47 cholera treatment facilities across the country.
www.msf.ca
Médecins Sans Frontières remains very alert and active. The organisation's teams have treated 62,000 people in 47 cholera treatment facilities across the country.
www.msf.ca
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Synopsis: Caritas Australia is helping to address acute diabetes and chronic health problems in remote Indigenous communities through partnering with Indigenous organisations like the Unity of First People
of Australia (UFPA).
UFPA runs the Diabetes Management and Care Program to prevent the rise of diabetes by working with the community to develop sustainable health plans. The basis of the plan is prevention, management, treatment and care of diabetes.
www.caritas.org.au
UFPA runs the Diabetes Management and Care Program to prevent the rise of diabetes by working with the community to develop sustainable health plans. The basis of the plan is prevention, management, treatment and care of diabetes.
www.caritas.org.au
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