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Recent and Past Stories
December 2012: People@WiRED: Volunteer Appreciation
All of us at WiRED would like to wish happy holidays to the many people who have become part of our family over the years: doctors and nurses, community health workers, and ordinary people who have used our training materials to improve their knowledge of medicine and community health. Read more >
December 2012: Year In Review
As WiRED looks forward to a busy new year, it seems a good time to reflect on our work in 2012 and share some plans for exciting new projects that will expand our reach in war-torn and developing communities worldwide. Read more >
September 2012: WiRED Opens New CHI Center e-Libraries
on Two Continents
Three new Community Health Information (CHI) centers are now up and running in Quilalí and Chinandega, Nicaragua, and Marcovia, Honduras. Upgraded CHI libraries are also installed in Kisumu, Kenya. Read more >
August 2012: WiRED Partners with Australian Physicians to Bring Innovative Echocardiography Project to Doctors and Nurses Worldwide
WiRED International is partnering with a team of physicians in Australia to create a project with potential for global medical benefits. Funded by the Medtronic Foundation, this series will train doctors and nurses around the world. Read more >
July 2012: WiRED Teams Up with U.S. Physicians and China Cal to Train 10,000 Rural Doctors in Yunnan Province, China
Most children in the United States and other Western countries are screened for congenital heart defects when they are born and during their first year of life. Once detected, these heart defects can often be corrected, and the children go on to lead normal, healthy lives.
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June 2012: WiRED in East Africa: Volunteers Deliver Donated WiRED International Laptops and Community Health Information (CHI) E-Libraries to Tanzania and Uganda
Carolyn Wallin and Veronica Ades have never met, but both women recently took the same innovative action to save lives in Africa: They personally delivered donated laptops and WiRED Community Health Information (CHI) e-libraries to medical professionals in developing regions of Tanzania and Uganda. Read more >
May 2012: Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Major Killer of Children
Remember the time you had strep throat as a kid? How much your throat hurt, how you had to go to the doctor and take medicine for over a week and stay home from school until you were better? That was no fun, to be sure, but if that's what happened to you when you caught strep throat as a child, you can consider yourself very fortunate. In the United States, strep throat is treated, and that's the end of the story. Read more >
May 2012: WiRED Announces Honorary Board Membership
WiRED International's Honorary Board is an interdisciplinary group of extraordinary individuals who are committed to our mission of sharing critical medical information with impoverished communities worldwide. Read more >
April 2012: WiRED Continues Ambitious Amazon Health Program
WiRED's next stop along the Amazon headwaters is Santa Maria de Nieva, Peru, where we will continue the work begun in the region last November. Santa Maria de Nieva is a small village, literally at the end of a road that wends through the jungles of northern Peru. Read more >
December 2011: Trial Certificate Program in Kenya Advances the
Quiet Work of Prevention
WiRED believes that community health starts with knowledge—and there is no better proof of this than the launch of WiRED's Community Health Information Center (CHIC) Certificate Program in Kisumu, Kenya. Read more >
November 2011: WiRED Volunteers Make Amazon Health
Program Possible
The success of WiRED International's second trip to the isolated Peruvian village of Galilea rests solidly on our team of 14 volunteer translators. These men and women translated 25 of WiRED's Community Health Information (CHI) program modules into Spanish, a task that took several months of dedicated, unpaid work. Read more >
November 2011: WiRED Makes Second Trip to Amazon, Implements
Health Education Program
After nearly two weeks on the road, WiRED's installation team has returned from work in the Amazon headwaters where it provided a range of health education resources for the small village of Galilea, located in a remote jungle region of northern Peru. Read more >
September 2011: WiRED Promotes Life-Saving Oral
Rehydration Therapy (ORT)
One child is dying from dehydration. Someone gives the child badly needed water. The child's body cannot absorb the water and the child dies. Another dehydrated child is given water mixed with a simple formula of sugar and salt. This, the child's body can absorb, and the child lives. Read more >
June 2011: WiRED Begins Ambitious Project in the Amazon
WiRED just took a giant step towards ramping up its Community Health Information (CHI) Center programs in South America with a new project in Peru. WiRED Director Gary Selnow, Ph.D. recently returned from visiting the small village of Galilea, deep in the Amazon jungle. Read more >
June 2011: WiRED Dedicates the Faye F. and Sheldon S. Cohen Community Health Information Center
In a separate event from the latest e-library installation, WiRED dedicated the Faye F. and Sheldon S. Cohen Community Health Information Center (CHIC) in Pandipieri, Kenya, a community services facility where WiRED has operated for the last 10 years bringing health information to more than a quarter of a million people. Read more >
June 2011: WiRED Opens New CHI Center e-Library in Kenya
After a year in the making, WiRED proudly announces the latest installation of the Community Health Information (CHI) e-library in Kisumu, Kenya. This interactive, health training program covers 120 topics or modules critical to public health in developing regions—with a special emphasis on HIV/AIDS as that remains critical to our audiences in Africa. Read more >
April 2011: WiRED Welcomes New Board Member
WiRED's Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Charlotte Ferretti, R.N., Ed.D, has been named as its newest member. Dr. Ferretti brings expertise and experience working in community health care with underserved populations and will serve as a valuable resource for WiRED's health education programs. Read more >
March 2011: Amazing Graces—Blessings to Season Your Meals
All his life the Reverend, Doctor Richard Reynolds Gilbert loved giving mealtime prayers for family and friends. Consequently, in 2001, he published Amazing Graces. Dr. Gilbert said, "To sprinkle light from heaven upon earthly pleasure—good food and fresh talk—is the audacious aim of this slender volume."
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February 2011: WiRED Welcomes New Board Member
The WiRED International Board is pleased to announce Christopher Spirito as its newest board member. Mr. Spirito, currently with The MITRE Corporation, brings valuable expertise in engineering and technology to WiRED International and its global telemedicine outreach programs. Read more >
BioSand Filter February 2011: WiRED Program Addresses Basic Need
for Clean Water
The role of prevention in assuring good health, sadly, is often overlooked. It isn't as glamorous as finding a cure for AIDS or as profitable as the cash that flows in from treatment. Having or not having clean water means the difference between life and death in vulnerable populations the world over. Read more >
January 2011: WiRED mourns the loss of board member,
Dr. Richard Gilbert
WiRED's board and volunteers are deeply saddened by the death of Dr. Richard Gilbert on January 6. Dr. Gilbert was a founding member of WiRED's board and a long-standing supporter of our community health programs abroad. Read more >
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