April 24, 2013 - 6:42am
The construction of the Tuberculosis Hospital at GHESKIO-IMIS in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is currently underway and is on track to be completed in August 2013.
April 3, 2013 - 11:32am
On March 21st and 22nd, WCMC hosted a World TB Day Symposium in Uris Auditorium. The event was organized by Kyu Rhee, M.D., Ph.D., and Sabine Ehrt, Ph.D., from the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology. Professors and researchers from a number of institutions gathered to discuss... Read More
April 3, 2013 - 11:00am
On January 12, 2010, the earthquake in Haiti ushered in a new relationship between the health clinic GHESKIO and the Village of God slum. Prior to the earthquake, sick individuals from the Village of God made their way across the street to GHESKIO, but over the past year, this relationship has become... Read More
March 12, 2013 - 7:54am
From Left to Right: Archbishop Guire Poulard, Prince Albert II, Dr. Jean Pape, and Mrs. Chantal Mérieux
Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch of the Principality of Monaco, visited GHESKIO on Friday, February 15th. In 2010 the Principality of Monaco pledged to support the... Read More
November 21, 2012 - 5:54am
(Left to right: Drs. Abdallah Mlwati, Rehema Shedafa, and Awilly Chofle)
Drs. Abdallah Mlwati, Rehema Shedafa, and Awilly Chofle, from Mwanza, Tanzania, are currently completing a 6-week rotation in the Department of Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital through... Read More
October 17, 2012 - 12:17pm
The GHESKIO kindergarten and primary school opened its doors in October 2010 on the GHESKIO campus. The school, called “Ecole Maternelle et Primaire de GHESKIO”, teaches children from six to twelve years old whose former schools were destroyed by the earthquake. In addition to the required basic... Read More
September 6, 2012 - 6:33am
Each summer, Cornell University undergraduate students and medical students from WCMC and WCMC-Qatar travel to Mwanza, Tanzania, to complete an 8-week internship in Weill Bugando Medical Center (WBMC). Students have the opportunity to rotate through departments in the hospital with Tanzanian medical... Read More
September 4, 2012 - 11:07am
Drs. Anthony Liwa, Samuel Pierre, Neema Kanyange, and Paulo Rocha
Four international doctors from Brazil, Haiti, and Tanzania recently completed a two-month intensive clinical epidemiology training program at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in their first step towards... Read More
July 19, 2012 - 8:07am
On Monday, July 16th, GHESKIO and Partners in Health announced that the pilot project to vaccinate 100,000 Haitians against cholera successfully reached almost 90% of the target population with both doses of the oral vaccine. Success of the pilot project has garnered government support to integrate the... Read More
June 11, 2012 - 12:15pm
May marked the beginning of construction of a new 35-bed tuberculosis hospital at GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince. Made possible by a generous gift from BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), the hospital will treat patients with TB and MDR-TB. The 2010 earthquake destroyed all three major tuberculosis... Read More
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