1. According to its Director, Dr. Cesar Flores, the Medical Information Center (MIC) at the Centro de Salud de Sutiava Clinic in Leon, Nicaragua, serves as an important resource for doctors and medical students; 2. WiRED’s Medical Information Centers and Community Health Information Centers in Kenya served more than 176, 000 people during 2004 compared to the previous year’s numbers of 166,000 people; 3. Volunteer Angela Woon came to WiRED in January 2004.
According to its Director, Dr. Cesar Flores, the Medical Information Center (MIC) at the Centro de Salud de Sutiava Clinic in Leon, Nicaragua, serves as an important resource for doctors and medical students. The MIC provides up to date medical information which serves not only in the practice of medicine, but also in medical research.
1. WiRED International is grateful to Affinity Internet, Inc. for the donation of complimentary webhosting through its HostSave brand; 2. WiRED is collaborating with the American Federation of Teachers to deliver a computer training program for the Iraqi Teachers Union; 3. An important part of WiRED’s work in disseminating the HIV/AIDS prevention message is our collaboration with VCTs–Voluntary Counseling and Testing facilities where people can learn their HIV status.
1. WiRED launches Medical Information Center in Novi Sad; 2. WiRED welcomes Stephen Browning to the Board of Trustees; 3. WiRED announces a new webpage portal that will provide current medical information.
1. South Aisa Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster; 2. WiRED welcomes Anderson D. Clark to the Board of Trustees; 3. WiRED salutes its volunteers.
1. WiRED mourns the loss of diplomat in Iraq; 2. WiRED opens two new Medical Information Centers in the Former Yugoslavia; WiRED salutes its volunteers
WiRED expanded its Medical Information Center project in the former Yugoslavia with the launch of Centers in the Medical Faculty at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo and at the Medical Faculty at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Both facilities now provide doctors and medical students with information from a medical CD collection and medical Websites.
Jim Mollen was killed in Iraq on the day before Thanksgiving. Mollen was the U.S. Embassy’s senior advisor on Iraqi educational matters. He was shot to death in a car outside the Green Zone while traveling from a meeting.
Plans for a December installation of the 17 Centers has been delayed because of increasing violence in and around Baghdad and other cities. Pre-election assaults on the population and on government officials have has made transportation and installation of the equipment very difficult everywhere and impossible in some regions…”
1. WiRED continues to provide the Iraqi medical community with healthcare information; 2. WiRED salutes its volunteers