Maternal and Infant Care in Borgne, Haiti

GlobalGiving Report January 2022. For full annual report, please visit: https://www.hopehaiti.org/

H.O.P.E. Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa

PEPFAR (The United States President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Response) grant was awarded for $54,000 for Covid-19 prevention and intervention. All staff members at Alyans Sante Borgne now have the first dose of the vaccine and Dr Thony is rolling out a three-tier vaccination program in Borgne. As an aside PEPFAR it is the largest global program for HIV/AIDS funded through USAID.

Covid Vaccine Progress- Over 6,800 (8.5%) in the community members of Borgne are vaccinated. This is the highest vaccination rate of any area in Haiti. -Sundberg, who immediately

RIT Sustainable Livelihoods Project is a $24,000 grant to HOPE to conduct a research project in partnership with RIT (~$10-$15k of this may cover existing operating budget in some way).

The project has started, and a coordinator hired to lead the on-the-ground work and that coordinator has begun both planning and creating a survey instrument for interview work. Data collection begins this Fall.

NIH Research Training Grant – 1.2 million over 5 years. Grant application submitted and project goals are to increase the ability of Haitian practitioners to conduct applied, community-based oral health research, expand the ability of Haitian practitioners to use distance-based means for conducting practice and community centered research, and to expand global research and training collaborations around community oral health.

USAID/Haiti Renewal Alliance - In November of 2021, H.O.P.E/ASB was awarded $150,000 competitive health care innovations grant from USAID/Haiti Renewal Alliance.  The funds will expand health access by allowing ASB to expand the number and geographic scope of mobile clinics; expand the number and geographic scoped of mobile health screenings, and greatly increase the number of health education programs offered throughout the commune.  Oral health outreach and education are included in the health education programming. 

Orphaned and Vulnerable Children - In October, the Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation awarded H.O.P.E./ASB a grant of $37,000 to support orphaned and vulnerable children. The grant will be used primarily to help children in the 11–17-year-old age group to improve their literacy and numeracy and connect this very vulnerable group with community health and education resources.   

Pan American Health Organization UAS - H.O.P.E/ASB are currently leading regional health system leadership and coordination effort in the Northern Department of Haiti.  The project, “Unite’ d’arrondissement de sante’” (District Health Units) is a novel approach to health care administration that was advocated for by the Haiti Ministry of Health (MSPP) and implemented with the financial support and expertise of the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization.  The project bring together a network of health institutions at the district level. The North Department, of Haiti is in the process of implementing two such projects. The project in Borgne is the most advanced because of the leadership, the know-how and the framework of ASB. The main goals of this initiative is to create synergy and networking among regional health institutions with a view to providing better quality health care to the population, facilitating decentralization, promoting local decision-making for the solution of problems and increasing the leadership of actors at the district level.  ASB is the only institution among the 8 of the two communes to bring together the necessary assets to ensure the lead of the project. This is due to the long years of experience of ASB in the community and the various programs carried out with many partners.

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