HISPANOLA HEALTH PARTNERS

HHP is working with the community to bring basic health care to all of the region's residents and to prevent mortality and morbidity wherever and whenever possible. HHP’s priority is to encourage program creation and administration from the ground up with the ultimate goal of self- sustainability by the local population. We invest in Haiti every step of the way – personnel, transportation, manpower and equipment. We require transparency and accountability and foster capacity building as we guide our projects toward self-sufficiency.

HHP's projects represent a proven need and value to the community in which they serve. Our philosophy is to build from the bottom up. The CSUG clinic that HHP helped develop was initiated by and belongs to the locals; conceived by the community because there was a critical scarcity of healthcare in the remote region and people were suffering. HHP’s priority is to run programs for the people and by the people.

HHP presently supports operations by investing in personnel – paying the salaries of 13 clinic workers that are the heart and soul of HHP’s impact. Other expenses are covered by the clinic’s own revenue streams - pharmacy, laboratory and consultation services and administrative fees from grant proposals. Employees are encouraged to write proposals for projects that benefit the region, moving closer to self-sufficiency, strength and longevity.

As revenue streams independent of HHP become stronger, our investment in the region will diminish.

1. Increasing visibility in the region - through daily primary care at CSUG and outreach programs concerning female cancer prevention, hypertension and vaccination.

2. Strong sense of professionalism - our Haitian personnel has a deep sense of pride and accountability for their work. This is helped by monthly visits by the Haitian Ministry of Health and monthly reports to HHP on all aspects of clinic operations - patients seen, epidemiology, finances, etc. Personnel are rewarded for hard work and reliability and are given increased responsibility as they show capability. HHP's ED visits CSUG every 3 months.

3. Partnership with MSPP, the Haitian Ministry of Health and other NGOs in the region.

4. Utilization and support of an established network of community health workers in the region to help promote our projects.

5. Strong community leadership.

Our present projects include:
Centre de Santé Union de Grand-Gosier – a primary care clinic in SE Haiti, in a mountain community of 17,000, which prior to CSUG’s existence was inaccessible to any healthcare center. Initiated in the early 2000s by local citizens, HHP partnered with them in 2013 and together they finished the health clinic. CSUG began providing daily care for the community in January 2016 with a full-time doctor and nurse, a pharmacy and a mobile clinic. CSUG works in partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Health (MSPP). In the fall of 2017 full laboratory services were added. CSUG attends to over 9000 people annually. 24/7 care was started in 2020 and a birth center was completed in November, 2021.Patients are asked to pay a modest fee for consultations and medications. Care for everything from births to machete wounds, hypertension to ear infections is provided, along with education concerning emerging epidemics, cancer, and stroke and heart attack prevention.

HHP’s mobile clinic began in June 2016; CSUG staff set up pop-up clinics at marketplaces and community centers in remote villages. The sickest and the most needy are found there. In April of 2018 CSUG’s Dr. Daniel Antoine designed a blood pressure program, “Wi menm la,” that detects and treats hypertension in the far corners of our region.

Women’s Health and Cancer Prevention – HHP began a screening and treatment program for cervical cancer in April of 2013 and since has screened more than 5000 women in the Arrondissement of Belle Anse. Haiti has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer rates globally and 95% of the women attended by HHP had never had cervical screening. HHP began a training program whereby local doctors, nurses and health care promoters, in collaboration with the Haitian Ministry of Health, have learned the technique and have taken over the role of cervical cancer detection and treatment in 4 clinics in the region. The Cervical Cancer Prevention Center, a program that supports and sustains continuing efforts in the fight against female cancers in Haiti, is sponsored by HHP and located at CSUG. In August of 2018, with generous grant support, CSUG launched “Ede Tèt Nou,” a female cancer screening program using HPV self-testing and self breast exams which reached 1600 women in the countryside.