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  • Haiti
  • Botswana
  • South Africa

Harvard World Media:
International Health

As part of an ongoing effort to document Harvard’s global involvement, the Harvard News Office reported on a sampling of the myriad efforts by the University and its affiliated institutions to improve health around the world. We present here the story of programs in Haiti and Africa, where Harvard faculty members are working to improve rural health care and conduct research that guides governmental responses to AIDS. The faculty involved in these programs are among many affiliated with Harvard who work to gather data, generate new knowledge, learn, teach, and make life better for those who suffer.

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Harvard-affiliated organizations

  • Harvard Initiative for Global Health
  • Partners In Health
  • Harvard Medical School
  • HMS Department of Social Medicine
  • Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change
  • Harvard School of Public Health
  • François-Xavier Bagnoud Center
    for Health and Human Rights
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities
  • Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative
  • Botswana-Harvard Partnership
  • KITSO AIDS training program
  • Botswana-Harvard HIV Reference Laboratory

Other organizations

  • World Health Organization
  • Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  • AmeriCares
  • Clinton Foundation
  • UNICEF
  • UNAIDS
  • The Valley Trust
  • Habitat for Humanity

People

  • Paul Farmer
  • Jim Yong Kim
  • Louise Ivers
  • Max Essex
  • Joseph Makhema

Disease topics

  • AIDS
  • Cancer
  • Childhood nutrition
  • Diarrhea
  • HIV
  • Malaria
  • Malnutrition
  • Maternal mortality
  • Measles
  • Meningitis
  • Pneumonia
  • Tuberculosis
  • Women’s health

Harvard World Media stories

Lesotho

  • A pandemic’s front lines
  • Confronting tuberculosis
  • Three hours at Nohana
  • Attacking the ties that bind poverty, illness
  • After years of action, time for talk

South Africa

  • Fighting AIDS now and in the future
  • Cutting in on the AIDS-TB death dance
  • Shelter amid a health care storm

Botswana

  • AIDS: Finding answers
  • Students see AIDS up close
  • AIDS and hope

Haiti

  • Web of care
  • One patient at a time
  • Hospital brings hope to Haiti
  • Haiti clinic makes real gains
  • Louise Ivers: A higher purpose

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