MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic. Beautiful velones (candles), canvas bags, flower arrangements and kitchen towels are stored at BRA’s clinic in Batey Cinco Casas until their display in an open house to be held in the Monte Plata Province. These works of arts were carefully and patiently elaborated by men and women who are living with …
MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic. Jessie Clyde, a student completing her Masters in Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School, spent ten weeks of her 2006 summer at Centro Medico BRA in the Batey Cinco Casas. Jessie was one of four students from Columbia who traveled to the Dominican Republic, under the Dominican Exchange Program, to …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic. From August 11th to the 18th, Dr. Ana Celia Carrero, medical coordinator of the Centro Medico BRA, attended the Annual International HIV/AIDS conference in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Carrero joined a delegation of twenty other Dominican representatives of different organizations that work with HIV/AIDS patients in the country. It was the first …
MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic, August 18, 2006. Early in the mornings, Centro Medico BRA at Batey Cinco Casas is bustling with sounds of busy receptionists, doctors, nurses, patients chatting and children playing. But in the last two weeks of August, a new and unusual sound was added to the environment. Only a few meters away …
