Clinic

Here is a picture of signaling a new approach to battling diseases in Haiti. Architects taking advantage of Haiti's Caribbean environment with Open-Air Clinics

Haiti is opening two new healthcare clinics. Applying a new design principle, they are open air and have been relatively inexpensive to build.

Architects of the new clinics have used the tropical climate to allow island cross breezes to filter through the structures, bringing relief to patients.

The new clinics will be used to treat cholera and tuberculosis patients. It is hoped these clinics will be models for other poor countries that don't have funding for expensive, conventional structures.

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Here is a picture of the new NOVA's Medical Clinic that was open in Cavaillon, Haiti

"NOVA Hope for Haiti" has been providing medical care in Haiti since 2002. They have opened a new permanent clinic in Cavaillon in October 2014. The new clinic has been opened and it is stocked with high quality patient care and medications, year round. The new building at Cavailon has three examination rooms with sinks and one procedure room. It has a large pharmacy, test laboratory and a record and storage room. There are two bathrooms in the clinic, one meant for the patients and another for the staff. The second floor of the building is dedicated to host visiting NOVA mission volunteers and other missionary groups. This floor has four bedrooms with attached baths, kitchen, large living cum dining areas. This is undoubtedly a great milestone in the 12 year history of NOVA in Haiti because, earlier they used to send teams of volunteer doctors and support staff in every 6 to 12 months to Cavaillon who used to work and treat over 1,000 patients in a week's mission in let out make-shift temporary community centers--for the first time their volunteers and patients will have electricity, running water and toilets to use! During July and August, NOVA has purchased $30,000 worth of medical supplies, equipment and residence furnishings for the new medical clinic in Cavaillon. Their team is composed of over 20 medical professionals, assistants and translators. NOVA is thankful to its supporters and volunteers, both in the US and Haiti.

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The Center for Haitian Studies, Health, and Human Services, Inc. (CHS) was created following the confusion about the causes AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Haitians were one of the group of people unjustly labeled as high risk for AIDS and also for the transmission of the disease. Haitians in turn felt at the time that they were victims of this because of their status as immigrants and black. The felt that the larger society did not want them to be in the United States.

With the creation of the Center for Haitian Studies, Haitians were more willing to seek help there as this was a Haitian facility witht e goal to help Haitians. The Haitian who were affected by the AIDS virus were more willing to come to such a facility to get treatment.

From those early and shaky beginning, Center for Haitian Studies has managed to become a real actor in the lives of many Haitians in Miami-Dade county as well as to other ethnic community of South Florida.

The Center for Haitian Studies is now considered one of the few successful counseling program for Haitian Americans affected by HIV/AIDS. The center now offers a wide range of medical services in the Haitian community, including: , OB/GYN,, Pediatric care, Family Medicine, HIV, AIDS, HIV Testing, HIV Counseling, Outreach, Education, Doctor, Health, Clinic

Center For Haitian Studies
8260 NE 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33138
Tel: +1(305) 757 9555
Fax: +1(305) 756 8023

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