FHM News
Haitian Mother’s Day, May 26, 2024
Family Health Ministries wishes all of the mothers in Haiti a Happy Mother's Day! Our HsCC colleagues at CRUDEN have a nice description of this holiday on it's website. "In Haiti, Mother’s Day is celebrated on the last Sunday in May. To wish mother happiness a child...
International Nurses Day, May 12, 2024
Family Health Ministries celebrated International Nurses Day by donating $5,000 to support nursing education at FSIL, the pioneering nursing school in Leogane, Haiti. FHM's 'Friends of Nurses in Haiti' group rallied and raised the support in just a few weeks. These...
FHM hosts Haiti sans Cervical Cancer meeting in RTP May 2 & 3, 2024
Haiti sans Cervical Cancer (HsCC) is held a two-day event May 2 & 3, 2024. (FHM is one of the co-founding organizations for HsCC) HsCC is a consortium of partners, in Haiti and abroad, committed to working together to reduce the burden of cervical cancer in Haiti....
UN chief welcomes Kenya’s offer to `positively consider’ leading police force to combat Haiti gangs
Story by By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press • 3:38 pm Click Read More then follow this link to the AP News Story
Fighting for Haiti, CBS Reports
Published July 6, 2023 by CBS News Streaming Network In July 2021, Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated, leaving a power vacuum seized upon by rival gangs that now effectively run the capital city of Port-au-Prince. It’s the latest in a long history of...
U.N. appoints Ecuadorian diplomat as envoy to Haiti
(Reuters) – The United Nations has named Ecuadorian diplomat Maria Isabel Salvador as the organization’s new Special Representative to Haiti and head of the U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), the international body said in a statement on Wednesday. (click link...
Growing Relationship with Haiti Nursing
Family Health Ministries has had a relationship with the first BSN Nursing School in Haiti since it opened its doors in Leogane in 2005. Over the years, FHM has provided scholarships, mentored nursing students in research projects, provided clinical sites for nursing...
Update on cervical cancer prevention
Partnership with Basic Health International & Haiti sans Cervical Cancer HsCC consortium partners, FHM and BHI just completed enrolling 5000 Haitian women to test the feasibility of developing a unified health care screen and treat program to prevent cervical...
Celebrating our 30th Year
Our 2022 Gala and Silent Auction was a huge success! Thank you for spending your evening with us as we celebrated our 30th year in Haiti and looked towards the future for women and children in Haiti. We had a record number of supporters this year, with over 300 of...
Saving the World’s Women from Cervical Cancer
On June 30, 2016 the New England Journal of Medicine published an excellent article regarding screening women in low resource countries for cervical disease. Many of the issues addressed in this journal article are consistent with what Family Health Ministries...