Health through Walls : MEDIA COVERAGE

MEDIA COVERAGE

2021

Food En Route to Hungry Haitian Pre-Trial Detainees & Inmates
In response to crisis, four non-profits form coalition to support individuals in Haitian prisons with food.
"Pre-trial detainees and inmates of 20 overcrowded Haitian prisons across the country will be steadily receiving life-saving food support over the next three months through a joint relief effort by non-profits World Hope International, Rise Against Hunger, Health through Walls, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation."

World Hope International, December 05, 2021

2020

Le Personnel Infirmier Face Au COVID-19 Au Pénitencier National

Impartial News, May 26, 2020

2019

Doctor Brings Health Care to Prisons,

by Maura Sullivan Hill, We Are ND, University of Notre Dame, August 26, 2019
Health Through Walls vole au secours des détenues victimes de viols,

by Marc-Evens Lebrun, LoopHaiti.com, November 15, 2019
Haiti - FLASH : All details on the mutiny and rapes at the Gonaïves Prison,

Haiti Libre, November 24, 2019
AHF Mourns Death of Haiti's Charlot Jeudy, Longtime LGBTQ Advocate and President of KOURAJ,

Business Wire, November 30, 2019

2018

Good Practices In The Prevention And Care Of Tuberculosis And Drug- Resistant Tuberculosis In Correctional Facilities, World Health Organization Document for Good Practices in Prisons, 2018, Haiti. TB screening in an overcrowded prison, Annex Pages 14-15, by John P. May, Mark C. Andrews, Karine Duverger
Health through Walls (HtW), World Health Organization, Regional Office Europe, 2018
Prisons Overcrowding: MINUJUSTH supports Correctional Facilities' Improvement in Haiti,

MINUJUSTH/United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti, United Nations Peacekeeping, Feb 15, 2018
Haiti - Justice: More than 75% of prisoners in Haitian prisons have never been tried,

Haiti Libre, February 24, 2018
John P. May, MD: President and Chief Medical Officer, Health through Walls,

by Andrea Carneiro, The Florida Villager, March 03, 2018
How prison conditions fuel the TB epidemic,

by Bryden, D., Action Global Health Advocacy Partnership, May 24, 2018
Haiti - Justice : The Protector of the Citizen paints a dark portrait of Haiti in Geneva,

Haiti Libre, July 6, 2018
Prisoner health status at three rural Haitian prisons,

by LaMonaca K, Desai M, May JP, Lyon E, Altice FL, International Journal of Prisoner Health, 2018 Sep 10

2017

Civil Prison of Port-au-Prince, Inhumane conditions of detention and an explosion of alarming deaths,

National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), Jan 27, 2017
'This is Hell. It will drive you crazy if it doesn't kill you first': Inside Haitian jail where prisoners starve to death and defecate on floors of overcrowded cells while waiting up to eight years for a trial,

by McLaughlin, K., Daily Mail and Associated Press, February 20, 2017
Malnutrition Killing Inmates in Haiti Jails,

Caribbean Times NYC, Feb 24, 2017
Beyond Our Borders, Students look into the challenges of addressing HIV in prisons internationally. HIV Behind Bars, Special Issue in partnership with the National Commission on Correctional Health Care,

by May, J. and Spaulding, Anne C., HIV Specialist, The American Academy of HIV Medicine, March 2017, 29-30 p.
Community Reentry & HIV Continuity of Care. HIV Behind Bars, Special Issue in partnership with the National Commission on Correctional Health Care,

by Zack, B., and Kramer, K. HIV Specialist, The American Academy of HIV Medicine, March 2017, 24-28 p.
A Port-au-Prince, les cachots de la faim,

by Robert, A., Le Monde Afrique, Le Monde, March 29, 2017
Aspen nonprofit arranges meals for starving prison inmates in Haiti, Haiti Children working with other nonprofits, and Haitians to feed 4,200 prisoners living in dismal conditions,

by McGhee, T., Denver Post, April 19, 2017
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Responds,

Global Health & Pharma (GHP), April 25, 2017
Haiti - Health: Mobile clinics in Cité Soleil and Gonaïves,

Haiti Libre, Nov 5, 2017

2016

Haiti - Justice : Inauguration of the new civil prison for women in Cabaret,

Haiti Libre, Jan 29, 2016,
Science alumnus transforms developing countries' prison medical care,

by Stowe, Gene, University of Notre Dame, College of Science, March 14, 2016
AIDS 2016: Seeds planted at 2000 conference grow infectious disease responses in prisons,

by Barton, A., Science Speaks: Global ID News, Aug 2, 2016
Keep the Promise - AHF Haiti World AIDS Day 2016 together with Health through Walls,

2015

System Strengthening Key to a Healthy Haiti, Experts Agree,

by Farrand, M., Pathfinder International, Feb 4, 2015
Factors that determine the effectiveness of peer interventions in prisons in England and Wales

by Woodall, J.R., South, J., Dixey, R., de Viggiani, N., and Penson, W., Prison Service Journal, 219. 30 - 37
(Health through Walls referenced)

2014

Salud Integral Penitenciaria 2014 - La Victoria, Santo Domingo Norte, República Dominicana by Fundación Génesis (video),
Health through Walls and other partner organizations participate in training and start medical exams of all 8,000 plus prisoners at La Victoria prison in the Dominican Republic in effort to identify and treat HIV, TB or other infectious, contagious disease.

2013

Citing Vile Conditions In Many Foreign Prisons, Leahy And Inhofe Offer Bill To Spotlight Problems And Spur Reforms,

Press Release, Patrick Leahy, United States Senator for Vermont, March 22, 2013.
TB Week: U.S. Senators, Ambassador visiting Haiti prison see interaction of justice and health,
by Antigone Barton, Science Speaks: HIV & TB News, March 18, 2013
More than a decade of countering disease and disaster in Haiti penitentiary yields results as donors turn attention to prisons,
by Antigone Barton, Science Speaks: HIV and TB News, A Project of the Center for Global Health Policy, February 26, 2013.
Peace Corps volunteers deliver abroad - and at home,
by Helene Dudley, Speak Up, The Miami Herald, March 1, 2013.

2012

Commentary: Keeping the world healthy keeps America healthy,

by John P. May, M.D., The Palm Beach Post, October 18, 2012.
NGOs strive to see a future for Haiti's damaged health system,

Country in Focus, The Lancet, September 2012.
Prisoners and HIV: A Forgotten Epidemic,

by Ishdeep Kohli, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Thomas Reuters Alliance, 26 Jul 2012.
Haitian prison an incubator for disease, but treatment for multidrug-resistant TB remains out of reach,

by Antigone Barton, Science Speaks: HIV and TB News A Project of the Center for Global Health Policy, July 25, 2012.
Looking forward to AIDS 2012: First prisoner networking zone, the epidemic in context, getting HIV treatment to the most people and more...,

by Antigone Barton, Science Speaks: HIV & TB News, A Project of the Center for Global Health Policy, July 16, 2012.
Haiti's HIV prison project | UNAIDS Caribbean,

UNAIDS Caribbean,??June 21, 2012.
Haiti: keeping detainees healthy - a public health challenge

Interview of Sandra Martin, International Committee of the Red Cross, April 19, 2012.
LIU STUDENTS VISIT HAITI ON A HEALTH CARE MISSION

LIU Brooklyn, Long Island University, March 14, 2012.

2011

Haitian Deportees Face Grave Health Risks,

by Jacob Kushner, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, November 14, 2011.
FAST FACTS, UN JOINT PROGRAM ON HIV AND AIDS,

United Nations in Haiti, July 2011.
The Long Road to Recovery, It Takes All of Us,

by John P. May, M.D., ICPA, A Publication of the International Corrections and Prisons Association for the Advancement of Professional Corrections, Spring 2010.
The Prison Educator, Heroes of HIV,

Irin Global, IRIN Global, IRIN humanitarian news and analysis, a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2011.
The Prison Educator, Heroes of HIV,

IRIN Global, IRIN humanitarian news and analysis, a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2011 (Video).

2010

Health Care for Prisoners in Haiti,

John P. May, MD; Patrice Joseph, MD; Jean William Pape, MD; and Ingrid A. Binswanger, MD, MPH, Annals of Internal Medicine, 21 September 2010.
The former prisoner,

by Severine Vanel, IRIN Global, IRIN humanitarian news and analysis, a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2009, (Video).
On antiretroviral treatment in Haiti's prison and telemedicine,

12th Crime Congress, The Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 17 April 2010.
Haiti's Prison System Set to Rebuild,

by John May, On the line, American Correctional Association, Vol. 33, No. 2, March 2010.

2009

A Mission Possible? One Group's Crusade to Save Inmates from HIV & TB in Developing-World Prisons,

by Deirdre Shesgreen, Science Speaks: HIV & TB News, A Project of the Center for Global Health Policy, July 31, 2009.

2008

Community health champion, Ana Viamonte Ros, Florida's First Surgeon General Takes her Message on the Road,

HSPH News, Harvard, School of Public Health, Spring 2008.
In Focus Haiti: House Call in Hell, World's Worst Prison,

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, (Video).

2007

HIV Hidden Behind Prison Walls,

by Antigone Barton, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, November 18, 2007.
Video of Haiti's Prison and Haiti's Hope,

by Antigone Barton, Palm Beach Post, 2007 (Images).

2006

Florida Doctor Tries to Rescue Dominican Jails from HIV Quagmire
by Antigone Barton, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer, Sunday, October 01, 2006.
Palm Beach Post Profiles Physician's Donation of Expertise, Supplies to Fight the Spread of HIV in Caribbean, African Prisons,

2005

Crossing Borders: Two U.S. Corrections Efforts Offer Aid to Haitian Prison System,

by Vanessa St. Gerard, Corrections Today, 2005.

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