President Bush Visits GHESKIO for Clinton Bush Haiti Fund: Jenna Bush Hager Reports on NBC's Today Show
August 13, 2010
Following President William J. Clinton's recent visit to GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, President George W. Bush toured the city on August 10. Partners in the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, established to raise financial support for international aid efforts in post-earthquake Haiti, their visits bring fresh attention to the relief efforts, including extensive emergency aid coordinated by GHESKIO. Jenna Bush Hager, a new Contributing Correspondent with NBC, covered the Haiti trip on the Today Show.
In the Today Show report, GHESKIO Founding Director Jean W. Pape, MD, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, describes the organization's recent efforts to build a new village that will not only provide functioning homes for Haitians, made refugees by the January 12 earthquake, but will also serve as a model for other such developments in Haiti, both in and outside of the earthquake zone. In addition to the group's continuing efforts to provide treatment to Haiti's tens of thousands of HIV-infected patients, GHESKIO established and is operating a refugee camp and a field hospital for those affected by the earthquake.
Recipient of the 2010 Gates Award for Global Health, The Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) was established in 1982 as the world's first center dedicated to the research, training, and treatment of HIV/AIDS. The organization handles about 100,000 patient visits each year, has never closed its doors and has never charged fees.
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www.gheskio.org
www.clintonbushhaitifund.org