Ulrick Gaillard

BRA partners with George Washington University Medical Center to dispatch health care relief teams to flood torn areas of Haiti and the DR.

| June 23, 2004

As part of its continuing flood relief intervention that started last month, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is sponsoring a GWUMC team of 20 volunteer medical specialists, public health students and faculty traveling from the United States to Hispaniola?s disaster flood areas. ?BRA?s flood relief intervention is carefully designed not to be duplicative, but to …

URGENT APPEAL TO HELP FLOOD VICTIMS IN HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

| May 3, 2004

More than 3,000 people have been killed ? 1,500 more still missing from a week-long floods and landslides that devastated Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Hundreds of unidentified corpses are being buried on a tiny island surrounded by crocodiles, others in shallow mass graves 3 to 4-feet deep. …

TRAGEDY IN HISPANIOLA: FLOODS KILLED AT LEAST 280 HAITIANS AND DOMINICANS.

| May 1, 2004

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Days of heavy rain have caused hundreds of deaths and destroyed homes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. At least 280 people have been killed, many of them swept away when rain-swollen rivers burst their banks, authorities in the neighboring Caribbean countries said on Tuesday. Other reports on the devastation …

BRA SEEKS OVERSEAS VOLUNTEERS FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HAITI

| May 1, 2004

BRA is looking for licensed volunteer health care professionals from the United States and Canada to work in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. If you are an internist, gynecologist, nurse, public health expert, optometrist, opthalmologist or a pediatrician, or medical administrator, you may apply by contacting Ulrick Gaillard at bra@bkreative.net or (917) 627-5026. The duration …

AIDS AFFECT 5% OF THE BATEY POPULATION

| May 1, 2004

Preocupa Sida afecte 5% población bateyes La directora de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID), Elena Brineman, mostró anoche su preocupación por los resultados arrojados en la Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud (ENDESA 2002) en relación con la prevalencia de 5% de infección de SIDA entre los habitantes de los …

The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) and Alianza Dominicana organize relief effort for flood victims in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

| April 30, 2004

NEW YORK ? The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) and the Alianza Dominicana announced this morning at a press conference their plan to collaboratively assist victims of the recent devastating floods and landslides that have caused more than 1950 deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. ?We are making an urgent appeal to everyone to assist …

BRA continues humanitarian medical relief intervention at Haiti/DR border.

| April 29, 2004

Dajabon, Dominican Republic -. On this April 14th, 2004, BRA?s multinational foreign volunteer health professionals returned to their makeshift clinics in Dajabon to deliver emergency medical and dental care to hundreds of Haitian and Dominican families. ?We were able to provide free medical and dental assistance with free medicines, vitamins, food and clothing supplies to …