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NHAHA
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E-mail: info@nhaha.org

      8th 88th Annual conference on Haitian Health

Conference 2011- Proposed: 

              Date: October 19-22, 2011

             Venue: Karibe Hotel, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

         Theme: Haiti Health Into the next Decade:  The case for Decentralization: Urban versus Rural       

                                                The 2011 conference will be a continuation of the last conference on Haiti. That conference provided a great wealth of information, allowed partnerships to be created and began an important dialogue among stakeholders from all sectors including the Diaspora.  We want to built on that effort and bring relevant issues that matter to you center stage into the discussion. Already we have listened and will address all the issues while delineating rural versus urban.  We are working to deliver a strong Mental Health track and looking at health improvement infrastructure issues as they related to the decentralization of the system.  We hope you will be with us as it will take the input of all of us to rebuild the healthcare system and improve the lives of Haitians.  Call for Abstracts will be out on February 25 .     

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 NHAHA 7th Annual Conference on Haitian Health
 

Haiti Health Into the next Decade: Shaping Haiti's Public Health future through collective Action
OCTOBER 20-23, 2010

Venue: Karibe Hotel, Haiti Conference pictures  

  Conference pictures

Evaluation Report of the NHAHA 7^th Annual conference. Full report of conference proceedings is being prepared and will be available soon.

 The purpose of the this conference was to provide a forum to address the major issues that affect Health outcomes in the Haitian population of Haiti

Key Points:

• Over 200 participants in attendance
• 38 presentations over the course of 2 days
• Broad spectrum representation of various groups and multiple levels of the health care sector
• Forum resulted in bridging the gap between the Diaspora and Haiti, between government, non government, and grassroots communities

During the course of two full days NHAHA was instrumental in addressing 4 major areas of concerns:

1. Human Resources and Governance
2. NGO perspectives
3. Building and reinforcing capacity
4. Investing in Haiti

Based on participants’ responses Dr. Linda Marc-Clérismé's presentation on ”The need for data in Haitian Health” gemerated a lot of interest in addition to  other presentations  including:

• The Haitian Amputee by Dr. Dianne Jean-Francois
• Perspective et positionnement après le séisme by Dr. Ronald Laroche
• Building the Health Care System by Dr. Reuben Pamies
• Partnership to enhance Nursing education in Haiti by Dr. Carmelle Bellefleur

Respondents / Participants highlights

-          great opportunity to network and meet potential community partners

-          great topics, impressive presenters

-          conference fostered a sense of community and collaboration of minds and ideas

-          great “fusion” of experience, action plan with concrete solutions from the field

Respondents / Participants low points

-          language / translation and interpretation was not properly organized

-          recommend more presentations in local languages

Venue: Location, service and food excellent

All power point presentations are available upon request. View the large size of some of these slide presentations; it will not possible to email all presentations. You may request some of the presentations by emailing conferences@nhaha.org.

ISSUES / COMMENTS / DISCUSSION

1. Recommend to outsource partnership potential to Diaspora vs bringing the potential and make partnership  work in country
2. There is a significant need to address the civil rights of the Haitian people before we can begin to consider addressing solutions for their health needs
3. Why is the country facing a cholera outbreak considering Haiti has been under close monitoring for over 1 month?
4. Identify strategies that will create funds to subsidize salaries and retain Human resources
   1. taxing Diaspora remittance to Haiti
   2. custom tax
   3. pledge – fund raising: $100 for every $1000 MSPP receives

Where do we go from Here?

1. How do we establish and maintain a plan for rebuilding the health infrastructure of Haiti in the midst of political leadership transition
2. What efforts and strategies are in place to provide health care to remote communities of newly displaced population
3. How can we design and establish a long term sustainable system to collect (ID)funds for salaries to recruit, train, sustain and motivate our Human Resources.

Participants’ demographics (does not include presenters and MSPP staff)

83% of participants were 45 years or younger and 17% were 46 and older

58% females 48% males

73% reported representing an NGO 6% from university and 23% reported being affiliated with “other” institution

60% of the participants lived in Haiti while 40% live in the Diaspora

25% were medical doctors; 19% nurses; 42% program managers; 14% “other”