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The Importance of a Whole Health Approach: malnutrition and psychosocial neglect
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Tags: India, malnutrition clinic, malnutrition crisis in india, malnutrition in india, nrc in india, rmf in india
Real Medicine Foundation just held a 2nd free medical camp in Charsadda this past Sunday the 29th of August for flood affected, at the Union Council Majukay. A total of 1,894 patients were diagnosed and treated through this 2nd RMF Free Medical Camp, consisting of 65 % male, 35 % female including 23 % children.
Around 109 serious patients were referred to hospitals at DHQ Charsadda, LRH Peshawar and Khyber Teaching Hospital.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we will be holding many more of these free medical camps for all in need. Full reports with treatment data of all our Medical Outreach camps will continue to be published on our website soon here.
Tags: free medical camp pakistan, Pakistan, pakistan charity, pakistan donate, pakistan flood relief, pakistan medical camps
By Fabien Toegel
RMF-Jeevan Jyoti HIV care center receives award, Government to make our model a policy
Meghnagar, August 25: The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) decided last week to expand the function of so-called Link ART Centers (LAC). RMF set up and has been supporting such a center at Jeevan Jyoti Hospital in a public private partnership, which recently received an award as best Link ART Center out of the 5 attached to the main Indore ART Center and is currently treating 44 patients with free antiretroviral drugs supplied by the Government. On Saturday, August 21st, NACO’s data manager from Indore visited our center and was pleased with the thorough recording and reporting.
The expanded role proposed by NACO acknowledges the model of care already provided by Jeevan Jyoti Hospital for more than 200 patients which had been identified with RMF’s support over the past 5 years. The specific LAC services will include enrolling patients into care, pre-ART management including basic investigations and sample collection for CD4 count, following up on patient not yet eligible for ART, screening for HIV-TB co-infection, and tracking of patients who missed appointments. RMF has been supporting these activities which involved taking patients on a weekly basis to 150-km far Indore, a long and expensive journey on bad roads which will become largely redundant under the new program.
NACO has already developed a revised 3-day training module which includes clinical examination for adult and pediatric patients, case discussions in the wards as well as exercises to practice the pill count system, recording and tracking, and RMF will ensure to have the Jeevan Jyoti staff trained as soon as possible. The RMF-Jeevan Jyoti link ART center was inaugurated on July 25th, 2009 and continues to excel in patient care in the form of a public private partnership.
Tags: India, india hiv, indian government hiv, jeevan jyoti, NACO, real medicine india
Ali, Dr. Zeba, Haider Ali Vanek, Real Medicine Foundation & Their Friends & Family
INVITE YOU TO AN OPEN HOUSE
On Sunday, August 22, 2010, From 3:00–10:00 PM
AT 10551 WILSHIRE BLVD. UNIT #904, LOS ANGELES, CA. 90024
To Raise Funds, To Spread the Word, To Uplift Spirits And To Pledge To Work Together to Help the People Affected by The Catastrophic Floods Ravaging Pakistan which estimates 20 million without Food & Water for more than 2 weeks!
Real Medicine Foundation is partnering with the Relief Foundation in Pakistan to support the relief efforts with Free Medical Camps in the flood affected areas, and it is with great pleasure we announce that we are holding our first RMF-RF Free Medical Camp this coming Sunday, 22nd of August in the Charsadda district. RMF Pakistan Flood Relief Project
Tags: Pakistan, pakistan charity, pakistan floods, pakistan fundraiser
Continuing with the coverage of the floods in Pakistan and what this means for our clinic in Balakot, I came across a good article from the New York Times that details why it is so important for Western Countries, the US in particular, to lend a helping hand to the people of Pakistan.
NY Times article here
Time and time again, the poor and rural areas of a country like Pakistan are left behind infrastructure, economic development and health care, ,and with no one else offering a helping hand fundamentalist groups like the Taliban will always step in to fill this void. Looking at the amount of resources the US has already committed to both Afghanistan and Iraq to combat extremism, it would be a tragedy to let this opportunity pass to aid these efforts and to improve our image in this part of the world.
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Our biggest thanks usually come from the people we help in the field, but sometimes they also come from our donors, which is always pleasure to see. The letter we are sharing below was just sent from an Pakistani-American, Dr. Zeba Vanek, to our founder, Dr. Martina Fuchs, thanking her and RMF for all our efforts in Pakistan since 2007 and specifically for our current Flood Relief campaign. Zeba also used her own network in the US to raise funds for the flood relief campaign and continue to be a great advocate for our cause.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Dear Martina,
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The reports are getting scarier by the day..the UN is now reporting that as much as one-fifth of Pakistan in under water with new flood warnings being issued today. New York Times article here.
Real Medicine Foundation is responding to the devastating floods across Pakistan by harnessing the energy of local doctors, nurses, and paramedics who want to volunteer their time and services by giving them a platform to conduct free medical relief camps for thousands of flood affected individuals in communities across KPK and Sindh. This cost effective intervention is based on the success of our flood relief camps in 2008 and anchored in our long-term commitment to serve the communities in Pakistan. Since 2005 Real Medicine Foundation and our local partners have been providing primary health care in Balakot and are committed to extending our services where needed.
Every dollar donated to our relief efforts will go directly towards purchasing medicines and supplies for affected regions and towards supporting medical staff on the ground to cater to the urgent needs of flood affected communities.
For more information about our Flood Relief Efforts, please visit our website.
Tags: Pakistan, pakistan aid, pakistan clinic, pakistan disaster relief, pakistan flood relief, pakistan flood victims
By Jaimie Shaff
Program Manager: Health and Nutrition
This past Tuesday marked my 14th day in India, aka my deadline for registration with the government of India. Since landing in this beautiful country, I have hit the ground running. The programs developed and implemented by RMF-India are absolutely incredible. Despite the fact that I was here evaluating the malnutrition program in January, I was certainly unprepared for how much the programs have expanded. The community has become more familiar with the faces of Caitlin, Michael, Fabian, and the rest of the field-staff, and the programs are developing with a strong focus on community.
With some slight confusion, train travel, and broken Hindi, I finally registered with the government powers that be this morning. My handwritten FRO note is in my passport, and I’m about 60% sure that I’ll be able to leave the country in December without any major hurdles.
In my short time here, I have met with many of the major organizations contributing towards humanitarian and developmental efforts in under-nutrition and HIV/AIDS in India. RMF is well received and respected by large organizations, as the only International NGO working directly with the Bhil tribal population in MP. I look forward to becoming more familiar with our programs, working to increase our efficacy and community-based sustainability, and creating technical/operating partnerships with other actors in this field.
Tags: Bhil population, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS in India, India, jaimie shaff, madhya pradesh, malnutrition in india
Due to the continued bad weather in Pakistan and the enormous number of people affected by the widespread flooding, the human scale of the flood devastation is on an almost unimaginable scale. UN is now estimating that the total number of people affected exceeds the Tsunami, Haiti earthquake and 2005 Kashmir earthquake all combined.
Real Medicine is very busy trying to ensure that our established health clinic in this region is able to handle the huge influx of new patients, and also fundraising to be able to provide several health care outreach camps in the areas that aren’t able to access out clinic or other hospitals.
We are entirely locally staffed and partnered with Pakistan relief agencies to deliver the health care needed, so we don’t have the same “foreign aid” conflict that many organizations are struggling with in this region of the world.
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Very good article published in Sunday’s New York Times about the malnutrition and food crisis in India. This focuses specifically on the crisis in Jhabua and Madhya Pradesh where our Malnutrition Initiative and Team India are based.
Link to New York Times article here.
There’s even a photo featured in the article of the treatment center (NRC) that we support in partnership with the Jeevan Jyoti Hospital. Photo here.
Tags: children in india, donate to india, food crisis in india, India, Jhabua, malnutrition clinic, malnutrition crisis india, malnutrition in india, new york times
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