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Remember last week when Deliana Garcia reported out from a trip to Mexico City? A few days later, she journeyed 23 long hours to reach Kazakhstan, the largest post-Soviet nation of Central Asia and the host of a two-day meeting to address regional cooperation in TB prevention and control, entitled “Migration and Tuberculosis, Cross Border TB Control and Care Central Asia Region, Regional... Read More
How many underserved or mobile patients give up on their treatment plan, because they find they can’t afford it? How well informed were those patients of the long term costs, before treatment began? Did the patients feel that their financial concerns were heard by their clinicians? This week, to answer some of these questions, Migrant Clinicians Network launched a new project to address a topic... Read More
We’re sledding down into colder days! As we ease into the holiday season, I can’t help but think of the millions of people who aren’t with their families as they migrate for work, for safety, for the promise of a better life. This year, more migrants are attempting dangerous journeys across borders both in the US and in Europe, despite the onset of colder and less predictable weather, which... Read More
Perhaps this post’s title is a bit too boastful, but we couldn’t help it! We are proud to announce the launch our newest issue of Streamline, Migrant Clinicians Network’s quarterly clinical publication. We’ve enjoyed hearing the feedback from clinicians and health advocates so far, and we wanted to share the top three reasons why you, too, should dive into the pages of the fall issue of... Read More
[Editor’s Note: This blog post comes to us from Farmworker Justice, a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice. Read more immigration updates from them on their blog.] Many farmworkers and their families face an uncertain fate due to the... Read More
[This week, Deliana Garcia, MCN’s Director of International Projects, Research and Development checks in with us from Mexico City, where she presented on TB and migration as part of the TB Coalition of the Americas, a regional subgroup of the Global TB Caucus. Read on to hear Del’s report.] The Global TB Caucus is an international network of legislators who have united around the common... Read More
On Monday, Texas health authorities reported its first case of locally transmitted Zika. Just 10 days earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) topped the public health news feeds with its declaration that Zika is no longer a global health emergency. What does the change in designation mean for populations at risk of contracting Zika, in the US where Zika continues to spread, in Puerto Rico... Read More
On Thursday, like thousands of Americans, I peeled sweet potatoes and smothered them with marshmallows. It’s an odd sort of Thanksgiving dish -- how marshmallows ended up in a side dish, and not a dessert, I don’t know. But what I do know is that I’m not the first person to handle that sweet potato. It was probably first handled by a migrant farmworker in Louisiana, a state that grows half the... Read More
It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and the house smells like pie. It’s tempting to run away from the headlines, from the flashing TV screens, announcing the latest (and often even more upsetting) political news, and just turn to the family for a quiet week (if you can in fact find some quiet in the extended family). I am looking forward to our peaceful time at home -- and I hope you will have such... Read More
Migrant health justice has never been more relevant, more salient, or more urgent. On this Thanksgiving week, we send our deep gratitude to the millions of farmworkers who migrate every few weeks to a new farm, to do the backbreaking work required to grow and harvest the staple foods that fill our plates with the tastes, the aromas, the comforts that make up our central memories of Thanksgiving.... Read More
