At their annual conference on global health, The Global Health Council presented the prestigious Gates Award for Global Health to GHESKIO - Groupe Haïtien d’Étude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infectieuses Opportunistes, for its nearly three decades of work fighting AIDS and for its Herculean job in helping people survive after the devastating earthquake in January.
President Clinton, who visited GHESKIO while in Haiti earlier this year, described, "Despite the fact that its own headquarters were damaged, GHESKIO almost immediately began housing the homeless, treating the sick and injured, and returning HIV positive patients to their lifesaving medications. For these people, GHESKIO’s services and dedication meant the difference between life and death, health and infirmity, and hope and despair."
In it's 10th year, The Gates Award for Global Health was established by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reward and exemplify organizations which have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource poor settings, with measurable results.
To learn more about the Global Health Council, the Gates Foundation Award or the annual conference on global health, please visit http://www.globalhealth.org/
Sunday, June 20, 2010
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