Learn About Our World Wide Projects
Laos Project
Health Frontiers helped to initiate and continues to support post-graduate training programs in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. HF has also taken a leading role in supporting and facilitating Continuing Medical Education for Lao physicians. Volunteer opportunities are available for both attending physicians and residents.
Children in Disasters
Health Frontiers supports training in the management of Complex Humanitarian Disasters, with focus on children and families. This course has been given annually in Cleveland since 1995, and has also been developed and offered in numerous other countries. Course graduates have contributed to disaster relief after the Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan Earthquake.
Malawi
HF has joined a loose association of concerned individuals and organizations in Lilongwe, called the Chitenje Maternity Trust, which has embarked on a concerted effort to reverse the tragedy at the terribly underserved Bwaila Hospital. The goals of the Chitenje Trust range from addressing critical shortages in medical supplies all the way to building and staffing a new maternity hospital. HF will also have its first full-time volunteer at Bwaila starting in 2010.
HIV/AIDS
In Uganda, HF has sponsored a research collaboration to test the likelihood that the inexpensive anti-malarial drug, chloroquine, could slow the progression of HIV infection in infants.
HF also supports a follow-up
study of a small group of Ugandan children, most of them orphans, who
are still alive up to eighteen years after being born with HIV
infection. This is yielding new data on the consequences of growing up
HIV-infected in a poor country, before antiretroviral treatments were
available.
HF also serves as a fiscal agent for several projects that support HIV-infected children in Uganda.
Other Projects
HF is supporting efforts to expand the use of mind-body techniques to enhance childhood pain management in third world settings.
Some HF volunteers have shared agendas with the Rainbow Center for Global Health at Case Western Reserve University. HF occasionally supports Center activities.