Programs: Family Health Ministries
Announced:
December 20, 2012
Category:
Addressing Critical, Unmet Needs
Fund Amount: $731,130
Above, a woman and her child visit a clinic.
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund granted $731,130 to Family Health Ministries to support screenings for cervical cancer prevention. With the grant, Family Health Ministries is expanding its program to screen 10,000 women for the human papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of the highly preventable disease.
Haiti has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world. Nearly 20% of women in Haiti infected with HPV and at the risk of developing cervical cancer. The grant seeks to help FHM save more than 600 lives by screening 10,000 women for the virus.
The HPV screening programs will be introduced in five partner clinics in and around Port-au-Prince that are operated by the Haitian non-governmental organization FOSREF.
Why We Invested in Family Health Ministries
Clinton Bush Haiti Fund's grant to Family Health Ministries reflects our commitment to the critical, unmet need for improved healthcare services in Haiti.
Transforming Lives and Livelihoods
- Screen an additional 10,000 women for HPV and save an estimated 670 lives from cervical cancer.
- Create 30 jobs for medical professionals at clinics and laboratories.
- Increase awareness of the need for cervical cancer prevention and strengthen Haitian capacity to screen for and treat the disease.
About Family Health Ministries
Family Health Ministries was founded in 2000 by a Duke University Ob/Gyn and a pediatric nurse practitioner. FHM started its own, full-time Cervical Cancer Prevention Program in Leogane in 2002. The program has since expanded to FHM’s Blanchard Family Health Clinic in Port-au-Prince where FHM collects specimens that are processed by QIAGEN in the United States. Since September 2007, over 10,000 women from Leogane and Port-au-Prince have been screened using this process. Visit familyhm.org for more information.
