Barron’s: How to Wisely Give Humanitarian Aid by Jonathan Katz Humanitarian aid has developed a bad reputation in recent years. When an earthquake ravaged southern Haiti in January 2010, leaving an estimated 316,000 dead, $9 billion was committed for...
TB as only animation can explain. A video in Haitian Kreyol explaining why taking TB medications every day is so important.
“The Wounds of a Nation Still Bleed” Amy Wilentz’s ‘Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti’ Review by Michiko Kakutani “One heroine Ms. Wilentz singles out for praise in these pages is Dr. Megan Coffee of Maplewood, N.J., who was...
The New York Review of Books Haiti: The Compromising Reality In the New York Review of Books, Mischa Berlinski writes, “Dr. Megan Coffee, a specialist in infectious diseases, has a doctorate from Oxford in epidemiology and an MD from...
Bob Braun, Newark Star-Ledger Columnist Reflects, as he retires with his final column… After 50 years of adventure, a Ledger columnist puts down the pen “…But the best was meeting, even befriending, the ordinary people whose stories were extraordinary....
A World of Its Own: Farewell Fred Voodoo reviewed by Ben Fountain “As Wilentz says of the American doctor Megan Coffee, ‘She lets Haiti teach her how to deal with Haiti.’ The Dr. Coffees of the world never stop...
The London Review of Books: What’s Next? Locusts? Review by Pooja Bhatia of The Big Truck That Went By “…Dr Coffee, a Harvard-educated specialist in infectious disease, came to Haiti just after the earthquake and set up and now runs...
Those who know TB best are those who've been there. Those who've had the disease or cared for those who did know what it's like. They know how hard it is to get better.
Oxygen saves lives. It doesn't just come out of the wall like in hospitals elsewhere. Providing continuous oxygen when the power goes out, when the roads are blocked is part of our work every day. Building systems is what...
