Articles

Doctors Abandoning Poor Nations for Rich Ones. (New York Times) and Fatal Flaw - Doctors on the Move (New England Journal of Medicine) look at the devastating movement of physicians from poor nations to wealthy nations.

Families Travel Far and Dangerously Seeking Medical Care. The Batey Relief Alliance and BRA Dominicana started a multi million-dollar humanitarian relief intervention covering areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

An Open Letter to Secretary Powell. Letter from Dr. Paul Farmer to Secretary of State Colin Powell concerning the medical crisis in Haiiti

Haiti: Opposition - and US - Must Step Up to Bat. March 1, 2004 editorial from the Christian Science Monitor

A Haitian Doctor's Success in the Fight Against Disease Medical efforts can be effective, even in poor countries such as Haiti or the Dominican Republic. For one example, see this article extracted from the New York Times (22-Dec-2002).

Haiti: The Eroding Nation. A recent article (December 2003) in the Sun-Sentinel presents a sobering view of the difficulties facing Haiti.

Great care is necessary in order to maximize the effectiveness of medical missions. These two thought provoking articles deal with some of the problems inherent in short term missions:

• The Cost of Short-Term Missions, by Jo Ann Van Engen
• Short-Term Medical Missions: Enhancing or Eroding Health?, by Laura Montgomery