Health through Walls in the News

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Medicine's Best Kept 'Secret', by Doug Brunk, Internal Medicine News, Practice Trends, June 15, 2008 http://www.internalmedicinenews.com/issues/contents?issue_key=S1097-8690(08)X7012-X (Scroll down to view article as text or to download pdf format)

HIV Hidden Behind Prison Walls
By Antigone Barton, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer, Palm Beach Post
From Heroes of HIV, HIV in the Caribbean
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/palmbeachpost/hiv/articles-haiti-prison.html

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House Call in Hell, Palm Beach Post
From Heroes of HIV, HIV in the Caribbean
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/palmbeachpost/hiv/interactive.html?section=haiti

Palm Beach Post's extraordinary multi-media expose, Heroes of HIV/HIV in the Caribbean, focuses on HIV in Haiti and features the work of Health through Walls at the national prison -- giving this issue wide exposure. It can be seen online, at YouTube.com, on PBS, & at the Silverdocs film festival in Washington, D.C. CLICK HERE TO SEE COVERAGE

Hospital sharing expertise on TB, by Antigone Barton, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, December 05, 2006, http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbccentral/content/local_news/epaper/2006/12/05/s1b_HOLLEY_1205.html

Haiti's Criminal Deportee program to hold awards benefit in New York City, Saturday, October 28, 2006, ...Bringing together committed activists concerned about injustices of Criminal Deportation to Haiti...will feature Special Guests of Honor, Ira J. Kurzban, Esq. (leading Haitian refugee rights attorney, author of Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook, and former counsel to the Government of Haiti) and John P. May, MD (Founder and Medical Director of Health through Walls -- providing sustainable health care in prisons in developing countries. http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77616.html

 

Florida doctor tries to rescue Dominican jails from HIV quagmire, Palm Beach Post, by Antigone Barton, Palm Beach Staff Writer, October 1, 2006

Health Through Walls, Sustainable Prison Healthcare in Developing Countries: An Interview with John May, MD, by Elizabeth Closson, IDCR Managing Editor Infectious Diseases in Corrections Report, September 2006
http://www.idcronline.org/archives/sept06/spotlight.html

 

Lu chando para salvar a los encarcelados by Antigone Barton, Por Antigone Barton,
Especial para La Palma , October 13, 2006

http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/noticias/content/noticias/comunidad/1013_AIDSVICTORIA.html

 

http://www.corrdocs.org/start.html

John May Receives Armond Start Award of Excellence, Society of Correctional Physicans, Transcript of remarks made by Steven Spencer, MD, CCHP-A, when presenting the 2005 Armond Start Award to John May, MD, CCHP. From the Fall 2006 issue of CorrDocs.
Armond Start Award of Excellence

Crossing Borders: Two U.S. Corrections Efforts Offer Aid to Haitian Prison System By Vanessa St. Gerard, Corrections Today: Legislative and Judicial Issues, August 2005

 

Fort Lauderdale doctor reaches out to help Haitian prisoners, Sun-Sentinel, By Ruth Morris, Staff Writer, June 27, 2005, http://healththroughwalls.org/page12.html

 

South Florida Reception Center in Partnership with Health Through Walls Aids Haitian Prison Authority Florida Department of Corrections, Correctional Compass, May 2005, B y Johanne Toussiant, secretary specialist, Miami North Work Release Center

Prison Healthcare in Developing Countries: An Update on the "Health Through Walls" Initiative 2005 Conference, National Conference Recording Service

 

Centre to be built for low-risk inmates at Tamarind Farm, LaTonya Linton, Gleaner Writer, Jamaica Gleaner, March 4, 2006 ...a Sexual and Reproductive Health study will be undertaken at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060304/lead/lead6.html

 

<><><><><><><>DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TACKLES PRISON HEALTH CONDITIONS, August 2004..FAVACA joined forces with the Florida-based "Health Through Walls" program and the Dominican non-profit "Fundación Genesis" to lay the foundation for improving prisoner health in the Dominican Republic. http://www.favaca.org/news/Clik/Clik-aug.html