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Aide Médicale Internationale (AMI)

Organization: Medical, Humanitarian Aid
Facility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open

Address:
HQ: 1, rue Pré Saint Gervais,
93500 PANTIN
, HT 00000

Region:Haiti, Caribbean
County/Parish:



Main/General Business Number: +33(0)1.41.50.59.90
Website: http://amifrance.org/-Haiti,82-.html

Other Contacts:(hidden)

Mission: from website:

Aide Médicale Internationale has been present in Haiti since 1984, training medical personnel and supporting health structures on Turtle Island and supporting the creation of 50 health posts in partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Health and Population under the Government Action Plan in the town of Saint-Michel de l’Attalaye from 2000 to 2002. Since late 2003 and early 2004, A.M.I. has implemented a program of medical and psychosocial support to 1,500 children and youth from the streets of Port-au-Prince and beginning in early 2010, A.M.I. has implemented a program of free obstetric care.

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AMI in Haiti
Objective

Give a global, quality answer to hygienic, psychic and social needs of street children and adolescents in the city of Port-Au-Prince

Context

Street children in Haiti are a big social issue. Indeed they are the first to suffer from the worsening national context [degradation of socioeconomic conditions, increasing pauperization of the country, continuous migrations to urban areas], 50% of them dying during the first four years of their life in the streets. That is the reason why AMI decided to start a program in 2004 to help the more fragile street children, giving access to a social contact based on mutual trust and recognition, and to primary health care for those who dare not ask for any help. AMI’s outreach policy [meeting directly children in the field without asking them to go to any given place] is unique in Haiti. Thus, 64.6% of AMI’s consultations were directly held in the streets of Port-au-Prince. AMI’s teams had to cope with the tension that was constantly plaguing the city of Port-au-Prince [demonstrations, insecurity, robberies, rapes, kidnappings, crimes, assassinations] before the presidential and parliamentary elections were held.

Program

Parallel to the census of street children started in 2004, AMI’s mission in Haiti now focuses on four lines of activity:
Health care: giving street children and adolescents access to quality health care and adequate medical follow-up through the creation of a mobile medical clinic
Prevention: informing and raising awareness among street children about risk behavior and its consequences, particularly regarding the dangers of HIV/AIDS transmission, to which street children are much exposed [prevalence rate extremely high (5.9%) compared to the national average (3.4%)]


Areas Served: Petionville (Centre Dept.), PaP (Quest Dept.), Haiti



This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

In Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, a surgical team of AMI operates injured

http://amifrance.org/-News,204-.html

Info Source/Changes:
added avails, area served
(see full history)

Created At: Sun Oct 24 05:42:41 +0000 2010
Updated At: Sun Oct 24 23:13:52 +0000 2010
Updated By: LTel


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