Global Health Partners, Inc.
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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Cuban Medical Project
Global Health Partners launched our Cuban Medical Project in 1994 to pierce the illegal U.S. embargo and provide large-scale assistance to the country’s public health system. Cuba’s medical achievements, which have been a model for the developing world, were severely constrained by Washington’s cruel economic warfare. In response, we developed a dynamic project that combined strong advocacy for a change in U.S. policy with massive medical shipments and collaborations between U.S. and Cuban doctors.
Over the past 22 years, GHP has delivered a remarkable $131 million in desperately needed medicine and surgical equipment to Cuban hospitals and community health clinics.
Healthy Futures for Nicaragua’s Children with Disabilities
In Nicaragua, GHP partners with Los Pipitos, a community-based, parent-run national network of facilities and programs to build better lives for children with disabilities. Los Pipitos is Central America’s largest non-governmental organization providing services to children with disabilities and their families. Currently, Los Pipitos serves some 15,000 families in 80 urban and rural centers, focusing on enabling parents to understand their children’s needs and supplement the organization’s work with care and training at home. This goal is reflected in the slogan, ”Turn every home into a rehab center.”
Since 2007, GHP has sent teams of volunteer occupational and speech therapists, as well as graduate students from Texas Children’s Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Baylor University Medical School and Columbia University to provide advanced training to Los Pipitos staff and parent caregivers, and to enhance the organization’s capacity on a national level. Our project is directed by Dr. Debra Tupe of Columbia’s Programs in Occupational Therapy, who created this initiative to advance the clinical skills of Los Pipitos therapists, physiologists and coordinators through on-site continuing education and hands-on training.
Strengthening Nicaragua’s Public Health System
Global Health Partners has formed a highly productive partnership with Nicaragua’s Ministry of Health to bolster that country’s public health system. In each of the past five years, we’ve provided, in cooperation with Nicaragua’s disaster relief agencies, innovative disaster preparedness modules containing food and medicines capable of sustaining 5,000 people for 30 days. These medical and survival supplies are pre-positioned in strategic locations throughout the country If Nicaragua is not hit with a hurricane or other natural disaster in a given year, the Health Ministry releases these lifesaving supplies to clinics and hospitals, particularly thoseserving children.
For more than two decades GHP has been sending tens of millions of dollars worth of medical shipments to Nicaragua, the region’s second-poorest country (after Haiti). This year alone we have already shipped more than $15,200,000 in essential medicines and medical supplies to urban and rural hospitals and clinics.
Our Skills to Save Lives project works to reduce Nicaragua’s unacceptably high maternal death rate. Nearly a quarter of Nicaragua’s poorest women give birth without any assistance from a skilled health professional, with 10 percent receiving no prenatal care at all. Most of these women live in isolated rural communities where inequalities in health care are deepened by difficulties in transportation, lack of local healthcare facilities and a scant supply of trained community health workers.
In the rural northern region of Matagalpa, pregnancy and childbirth carry an exceptionally great risk, with a persistently high number of preventable maternal deaths and fetal complications. To address this hardship, GHP partners with local NGO Skills to Save Lives and the Women’s Empowerment Network, which trains midwives and community health workers to ensure safe childbirth and healthy newborns. Launched in 2011 by veteran rural women’s health professional Dorothea Granada, the project is a grassroots initiative that augments its training program by identifying and monitoring high-risk pregnancies, and ensuring safe, sanitary birthing conditions. This Safe Motherhood Project received a huge boost in 2014, when it became a national Ministry of Health initiative that is expanding into other underserved areas of the country.
Our current Nicaragua assistance projects of disaster preparedness and large-scale medical shipments complements our longstanding work to better the lives of children with disabilities and our newly launched cervical cancer prevention and treatment initiative.
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Global Health Partners, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 08/16/2018
Ramsey Clark
Howard Gressey
Robert Schwartz
Ramsey Clark
Jack Carton