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| alizawaxman | Advocacy Event: HIV/AIDS Youth Program Launch, South Africa | 2 | Mar 25 2009, 8:44 AM EDT by alizawaxman | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 25 2009, 8:41 AM EDT
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I am now in my third month working in South Africa with the American International Health Alliance’s HIV/AIDS Twinning Center as an Organizational Development Specialist. During this time I have worked with three HIV/AIDS related NGO’s in the Western Cape.
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| sezaeh | Educational Event and Advocacy Efforts In Progress | 1 | Mar 22 2009, 10:22 AM EDT by DHaisch | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 6 2009, 7:51 AM EST
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With the AMSA convention rapidly approaching, I thought I would post a quick update on the progress of my educational and advocacy events. For my educational work, I have written a teaching case study regarding mental health and psychosocial services for youth in post-conflict Sierra Leone. For context, Sierra Leone suffered from an eleven year Civil War that ended in 2002 (think Blood Diamond). Today, the country remains among the poorest in the world and has a lack of general health infrastructure (leading to extremely high maternal and child mortality rates). Youth are among the most vulnerable populations - many lack basic education (due to the large number of years the country was at war) and remain unemployed.
The case asks students to think about issues that impact post conflict countries like Sierra Leone and consider where mental health and psychosocial services for youth fit within the system. With my adviser at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Theresa Betancourt, a preliminary version of the case was taught one week ago to a class of approximately 20 students at HSPH. The discussion seemed to go well, though it highlighted various issues which need to be addressed as I continue to revise the overall product. When I have finalized the case, I am happy to post it to this website and hear feedback! My advocacy work continues along the youth in post-conflict theme. I am currently working with a team from the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research regarding the development of a set of teaching materials specifically concerning the needs of youth in various post-conflict settings. The project is in its beginning stages, but I see it as a powerful way to teach professionals who are heading off for work in the field about the importance of youth concerns in post-conflict settings.
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| kgand001 | Advocacy Event: Speaking Out Against Genocide | 1 | Mar 12 2009, 10:39 AM EDT by kgand001 | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 12 2009, 10:38 AM EDT
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Throughout the course of this program, I have come to appreciate, even more, the class, race, and socioeconomic divides that keep many persecuted populations isolated and neglected to the point of peril. The reality that politics often trades wealth and comfort of a few for death and suffering of many, as was depicted very vividly in Gourevitch’s account of the genocide in Rwanda, is something that we cannot afford to accept. For this reason I chose to focus on genocide in my advocacy project. As future physicians, and health care professionals, we have been taught that there is nothing more worthy of preservation than human life. I believe we have a responsibility to accomplish this through our professional skills, as well as through our compassion.
My event, entitled “Speaking Out Against Genocide”, consisted of a series of presentations on past and current cases of genocide around the world, and I asked the students in attendance to reflect on the presentations and write a letter to President Obama and his administration to use their influence in world politics to put a stop to genocide. There were a total of 5 presenters, including myself, who were volunteers from nursing, graduate, the medical school. Each presenter was responsible for covering important aspects of one of five cases of past and present genocide including: Bosnia, Darfur, Rwanda, Northern Uganda, and Sri Lanka. The format of the presentations varied from short video clips to posters and photographs with text. The event was held in a large atrium on campus so people were able to visit each of the presentations and explore them at their own pace over the course of 2 and a half hours.
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| kgand001 | Educational Event: Film Screening and Discussion | 0 | Feb 19 2009, 9:57 AM EST by kgand001 | ||||
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Please see the attached world file: Film Screening and Discussion of "The Other Side of the Country"
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| Paul.Johnson | Educational Event- HIV/AIDS in Mozambique | 0 | Feb 7 2009, 9:07 PM EST by Paul.Johnson | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 7 2009, 9:07 PM EST
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For my GHSP educational event I gave a presentation on HIV/AIDS in Mozambique to students from the allopathic and osteopathic medical schools at Michigan State University. I talked for an hour on the state of the HIV/AIDS situation in the country and on my personal experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique and about the HIV/AIDS prevention projects that I had been involved in. I also showed a short video that I made, with interviews from three Mozambican women who are living with HIV/AIDS. The goal of the presentation was to given fellow medical students a clear idea of the HIV/AIDS crisis in Mozambique, the challenges involved with the AIDS epidemic, and potential solutions. I plan on repeating the presentation for World AIDS week.
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| SukhiBains | Educational Program - Refugee Health Elective | 1 | Jan 18 2009, 1:30 AM EST by SukhiBains | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 18 2009, 1:23 AM EST
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During the fall semester, three medical students (including myself) organized an elective on Refugee Health issues for medical students at Michigan State University. We sought to to expose medical students to what being a refugee really means within and outside the context of health care in order to better prepare us to work with this population as physicians. I am not sure how to post the syllabus in its entireity so I suppose I'll do it in stages. I would recommend creating a course at your schools if there is a subject that you are interested in and is not being covered because it is a great learning experience and really rewarding as far as remembering what brought you into this in the first place. Enjoy!
REFUGEE HEALTH ELECTIVE SYLLABUS HM 591.005, Fall 2008 Room G-30 Hubbard Hall COURSE BACKGROUND & GOALS: The purpose of this course is to contextualize the social realities of Refugees in reference to their health and health care. Refugee is a social, political and economic categorization with far reaching consequences for the identities of those who exist within this population. The purpose of this course is to expose medical students to what being a refugee really means within and outside the context of health care in order to better prepare us to work with this population as physicians. The goal of this course is to introduce medical students to the experience of the refugee as person and patient. Refugee is not a homogenous category, nor is the experience one that can be easily explained or examined. However, there are many unique features of an existence created by forced displacement and this reality creates many different needs for health care and management. Through dialogue and self-directed learning, these unique realities will be woven into the MSU framework of patient-centered care and cultural competence in interacting with often invisible and underserved populations.
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