· An episode of NOW on PBS discusses a Partners in Health project and includes an interview with Paul Farmer.
· On C-SPAN’s feature, “Top Non-Fiction Authors and Books,” Professor David Vine talks about the U.S. military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and the 2000 residents of the island who were forcibly exiled from there by the Americans and the British in the late 1960s and early 1970s. See the earlier post on this blog about Vine’s book, Island of Shame.
· The Hawaii News reported archaeological discoveries on Mokumanamana, a remote and currently uninhabited island north of the main Hawaiian islands. Kekuewa Kikilio, a University of Hawaii anthropology doctoral student, and Anan Raymond, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service archaeologist, found a partially finished stone carving, remains of a workshop, and agricultural terraces. Further research is required to provide information on when humans lived on the island and for how long.
· The Bill Moyers Journal featured an interview with Dr. Jim Young Kim assessing President Obama’s health care speech and ideas for reform. Dr. Kim is president of Dartmouth College and, with Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health. He has an MD degree and a PhD in anthropology, both from Harvard University. In the interview, Dr. Kim links U.S. health care reform to his experiences in global health work: “One of the things that we’ve learned is that community health workers, which are really members of the community who help people go through very difficult treatment regimens, this can work anywhere. We’ve done it first in Haiti. Then we did it in Peru. And then in Africa. But most remarkably, we’ve also implemented that program in Boston, and are now thinking of implementing it on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico…Having someone who just visits every day, just to make sure that you’re taking your medicines and you’re doing okay, that has a huge payoff down the line in terms of overall health outcomes.”
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