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Haitian Teens Leave Youth Clubs as Community Health Advocates

Posted on January 16, 2018 (October 10, 2018) by GECO Web Team Member

The “youth corner” at Christ the King Clinic is stocked with educational materials used by FOSREF for youth club meetings.

MCSP is arming Haitian teens with sexual and reproductive health information – and transforming communities in the process. […]

Mobilizing Haitian Mothers to Improve Child Nutrition

Posted on November 13, 2017 (November 13, 2017) by GECO Web Team Member

Cléomide and her two daughters in front of their home.

MCSP works hand-in-hand with Haitian communities to help them identify – and tackle – their own nutrition issues. […]

In Haiti, HIV Peer Educator Inspires Hope

Posted on August 21, 2017 (August 21, 2017) by GECO Web Team Member

Pierre Tenor, an HIV peer educator, meets with Clothilde Brazil, a mother of six.

Also HIV-positive, Pierre Tenor encourages fellow HIV patients to live and fight, bringing them doses of both medicine and counsel. […]

Working with Fathers in Kenya to Ensure Mothers and Babies Survive

Posted on July 26, 2017 (August 24, 2017) by GECO Web Team Member

Josephine with her sixth child, Tantensia Nafula, as her older son looks on.

In some of the world’s most difficult places to give birth, getting a husband on board can be the final hurdle to improved health for the entire family. […]

Going Door to Door in Haiti to Improve Health

Posted on July 14, 2017 (March 11, 2019) by GECO Web Team Member

Josiane Pierre meets with Rosemeline Milord during a house call.

“Seeing that I can help people and advise them, it’s my satisfaction,” says Josiane Pierre, a community health worker. “The greatest wealth that people can have is their health.” […]

Haitian Communities Empowered to Address their Own Health Issues

Posted on June 30, 2017 (July 26, 2017) by GECO Web Team Member

Marthe Bonami in the courtyard of the National School of Cotelette.

Marthe Bonami proves that determination and passion can go a long way to improving the health of her community in rural Haiti. […]

Mobile Health Teams in Haiti Offer an Extensive Menu of Family Planning Methods to Women in Need

Posted on March 21, 2017 (August 22, 2017) by GECO Web Team Member

Mobile health teams in Haiti are taking a vast array of family planning methods and services to women in remote communities. […]

Report on MCSP Support for the Polio Switch in April 2016

In April 2016, the largest and fastest globally-coordinated project in the history of immunization was carried out in 155 countries and territories. Known as “the switch,” this activity entailed replacing trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), which protects against all three strains of the poliovirus, with the bivalent form (bOPV) which protects against two strains, types […]