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Our Mission
To empower global populations who are disadvantaged and displaced through health and education. We provide free, quality, essential healthcare services to these underserved populations, including Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and industrial workers in Bangladesh.
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Highlight - 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
Dr. Ruhul Abid, Founder and President of HAEFA, was nominated along with HAEFA for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize by the University of Massachusetts for giving access to quality healthcare for the underserved people of Bangladesh in ready-made-garment factories, hard-to-reach and flood affected areas in Bangladesh, and Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.
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PHF - 2020 Virtual International Conference
Awarded the Public Health Award 2020 by the Executive Committee of Public Heath Foundation, Bangladesh (PHF, BSD, Dr. Abid will be the Keynote Speaker in the inaugural ceremony of the 8th Foundation Day and International Virtual Public Health Conference.
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CPJ-HAEFA Webinar
Join us at 9 AM (BST), December 10, for the first webinar in the CPJ Camp Voices Webinar Series, "Impacts of Covid-19 on Rohingya Camps", to discuss how the virus has impacted all facets of life within the Cox's Bazar refugee camps.
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GVB Training by PHR
All HAEFA Employees and volunteers in Dhaka, Kurigram, Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh and in USA received a three-day training on gender-based violence (GVB) and victim support and management by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), USA in November 2020. This will allow HAEFA medical teams to diagnose, treat, support and help rehabilitate GVB victims efficiently.
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December Training-of-Trainers
The highly effective COVID-19 Competency Training-of-Trainers (ToT) Program continues with another session in Bangladsh during December 7-10.
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Initiated in April as a collaboration between HAEFA, Brown University, and Project HOPE, this December training has been updated with new treatment and IPC Guidelines. The program uses the Training-of-Trainers model to engage master trainers and coach new trainers, ensuring that Bangladesh’s healthcare workers are prepared to combat the spread of COVID-19. The first Brown University TOT sessions run by Bangladeshi clinicians will be in early January 2021. To read more about this training program, kindly visit our website at www.haefa.org.
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COVID-19 Relief
Two cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the Rohingya camps on May 15, 2020. HAEFA and other aid agencies are doing everything they can to curb a massive outbreak of COVID-19 in the camps, but the conditions in the camps make this nearly impossible.
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NIROG has proved an essential asset in tracking the spread of COVID-19 through the camps and monitoring patients' symptoms (learn more about HAEFA’s novel electronic medical record system). HAEFA has also sourced and imported 10,000 KN95 masks for free distribution in national hospitals & rural health centers in 20 Bangladeshi districts, and has sent $89,000 to support healthcare workers and patients' safety in light of the pandemic.
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Featured Story
"Brown researcher, global health physician nominated for Nobel Peace Prize"
To learn more about HAEFA's origins and work leading to our 2020 Nobel nomination, read this story from Brown University's News team.
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Current Activities Highlights
- Rohingya Camps: Contact tracing and symptom monitoring of 174 "presumptive COVID-19" patients in home quarantine. Distributed Protective Health and Hygiene Packages, which include face masks, bar soaps, washing aprons, and toilet brushes, to over 200 families since October.
- Cervical Cancer Screening: Collaborating with organizations such as LAMB to screen 1,844 women in Kurigram District using “see-and-treat” cervical cancer screening and treatment method in the month of November 2020.
- COVID-19 Competency TOT training by HAEFA, Brown University and Project HOPE: Since April 2020 HAEFA, in collaboration with Brown University and Project HOPE, has organized three four-day training courses for 1,600 healthcare professionals and health workers in Bangladesh. Next TOT will be held from December 7 to December 10, 2020.
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