JUN-C-6
AN AMAZINGLY RAPID CONFLUENCE OF LIKE MINDS
IN ORGAINIZING A HAITIAN HUMANITARIAN
FOR OUR NEXT FORAY INTO HAITIAN HEALTH CARE
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From: Glenn Geelhoed
To: Paulhaiti@aol.com
Date:
Subject: Re: You have photos from PhotoWorks
Wonderful!
In an amazingly rapid confluence of kindred spirits, all experienced in the bite of the "dental impressions" still carried from the "Haiti has teeth" proverb, we have just come from the meeting with our boss at GWU, Skip Williams.
Skip
is very enthusiastic about our commitment, and would like to join. He must first check with
Skip
has a longstanding interest in and experience with
I am a strong believer in the credibility of preventive care enhanced by accompanying competent treatment.
I also prefer to teach treatment than to do it as a skill that is dropped from the air without being indigenized. I think we may be able to help out all along this spectrum, and the rapid confluence of like- minded humanitarian concern means we can likely institutionalize this assistance, to just as rapidly "work our way out of this job."
As we get the pieces assembled and the timing in place, we will ask for the most appropriate interval for your purposes- - how would the week immediately following Christmas work out? This may mean that the students of both MD and MPH programs would have vacations and the travel may be worked out and vehicles rented to transport the people and supplies.
I have suggested to our student coordinators that rather than soliciting samples of some specialty kinds of "designer drugs" we try to solicit funds for the generic variety of basic pharmaceuticals already warehoused at Cange. "More money/less drug samples=more appropriate therapy!"
Peter Hotez advises me that the pilot manufacturer of clinical trial batches of hookworm vaccine in yeast has yet to be selected, but that this work will be done within the year. In the interval, he suggests "GCP" practices for clinical trials, and I suggested to him that you would already have the infrastructure in place for that kind of standardization in a development milieu from your prior experience with clinical trials in HIV/TB therapy. We might come equipped for a training session for personnel in gathering data as well as contributing good clinical care, so as to satisfy the requirements for vaccine efficacy determination.
I
heard from
So,
all within an hour of our exchange of emails, we have met with the student
coordinators and I have met with every major leader in the process of getting
this effort launched toward the continuing support of the good people of the
Strong Bright Haitian Teeth Indeed!
GWG
>>> <Paulhaiti@aol.com> 06/18/03 02:27PM >>>
In
a message dated
Dr.
Raphael of the
this is good news my friend. and you can count on us to help. please tell dr surena that- - he's a very fine man. dr raphael would simply assume that we'd help.
let me make a proposal: you support good community based care for HIV disease, and well get the meds and also help train the CWHs
dr leandre and loune are copied too.
we need to build more alliances like this to make things roll. our only stipulated is that the MSPP be involved, and you're already doing that. i said as much when i met with the missionaries from marmont . . .
bravo!
best
paul