BRA and VOSHS to hold eye care missions to the bateyes As part of its Blindness Prevention Program, BRA will sponsor with the Chicago-based Volunteer Optometrists for Service of Humanity (VOSH) an eye-care mission trip to be held from January 17-24, 2004 in the bateyes located in the province of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican …
BRA’s annual heath care mission is set for April 2004 The Batey Relief Alliance will carry out its annual health care mission in the Dominican Republic from April 9 ? 18, 2004. The purpose is to assess medical needs and provide emergency care in the areas of general medicines, pediatrics, gynecology, dentistry and preventive health …
Sida, La tragedia Silenciosa Estima que hay 112 mil infectados en el país. La cifra podría ascender a 141 mil en el 2005. ?He aquí, yo les traeré sanidad y medicina y los curaré?, lee Diógenes Montero de la Biblia. Sólo su fe le brinda consuelo en este capítulo amargo de su vida. Diógenes, de …
BRA Board member, Dr. Ruben Silie, is appointed General Secretary of the Association of Caribbean States. Dr. Silie is a scholar, author and Executive Director of the Dominican’s FLACSO. Excerps from Listin Diario Editorial Honrosa distinción y homenajes merecidos Al tiempo de congratular a Rubén Silié por su honrosa elección, los dominicanos debemos recibir con …
February 17, 2004 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The Dominican government on Monday called for more international assistance to quell the Haitian uprising, saying the violence could hurt the Caribbean region. “The situation in Haiti, if it persits, may cause thousands to want to flee the country by attempting to cross the borders into the …
Carol King, Victor Manuel Baez, Virtudes Berroa On September 18, 2003, Victor Manuel Baez, Executive Director of the Dominican’s State Sugar Council — el Consejo Estatal del Azucar (CEA) and Maria Virtudes Berroa, Executive Director of the BRA Dominicana, signed a working agreement in Santo Domingo. The Agreement called for BRA Dominicana to support the …
Raymond Thertulien, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor at the Myeloma Institute in Little Rock Arkansas, and Medical Director of the Batey Relief Alliance, submitted recently an idea for a grand challenge in global health that was accepted and published on the grand challenges in global health’s Web site.It is now open for grant submission. GRAND CHALLENGE …
