When Hilda Mercedes Duran, on her way to JFK airport last September, said with her teary eyes, “…because of BRA, my son is alive,” it was a bitter-sweet moment for the single mother as her 2 ½ year old only son, Jhensi Duran, was condemned to die unless he receives an expensive heart surgery in …
BROOKLYN, New York, February 12, 2006. The Batey Relief Alliance, in partnership with the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad (AMHE), is setting up a medical mission trip to the bateyes from April 17th through April 21st, 2006. More than 15 US-trained and licensed Haitian health care professionals are expected to travel to the Dominican Republic …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, September 4, 2005. The objective of the project is to mobilize various community and volunteer networks in order to help implement the Dominican Republic’s strategy of the National Program for Control of Tuberculosis (PNCT) – an arm of the Dominican’s Ministry of Health (SESPAS). BRA will target 40 bateyes of the …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 9, 2005. Working in partnerships with the USAID-funded Family Health International/Conecta project, the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Dominican Ministry of Health’s DIGECTISS, BRA launched in August the “Proyecto Arco Iris/Rainbow Project,” a comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program targeting 20 bateyes …
BROOKLYN, New York, August 21, 2005 – With more than $160,000 in cash raised from the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Lions Clubs International Foundation and the Dominican’s State Sugar Council (CEA), BRA is finalizing the modern-designed construction of the bateyes’ first medical center complex located at batey Cinco Casas in the province of Monte Plata. …
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 4, 2005. Members of the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras and other accomplished musicians around the United States will gather in Philadelphia to produce a concert benefiting the humanitarian work of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA). Proceeds of the event will enable BRA to deliver sustainable health and HIV/AIDS/STIs services and essential medicines …
NEW YORK, New York, November 2, 2005. After undergoing a successful operation to correct a congenital cardiac malformation, Tetralogy de Fallot, Jhensi and his mother Hilda-Lisa headed back early this morning to their hometown, Sabana Grande de Boya, Dominican Republic. “…Thanks to BRA, my son is alive,” said Hilda to BRA’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard, on …
NEW YORK ? Internationally recognized experts on HIV/AIDS assessed the grim realities facing the two countries which share the island of Hispaniola, and laid out elements of an agenda for bilateral cooperation at the Batey Relief Alliance?s III International Conference, ?HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic and Haiti: A Bilateral Challenge,? held April 30 at Columbia …
