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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 19/09/2008
I will be covering the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York next week. I'm particularly interested in Thursday morning's program on "expanding the global health workforce," especially after spending three months in Malawi learning about that country's nursing crisi ...
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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 17/09/2008
Every trip has its rough spots. Mine occurred on August 27 when we were detained by police for three hours after stopping at a road block in southern Malawi. It certainly felt like a shakedownalthough the sergeant who flagged us down never directly asked for a bribe. And by the time it was all over, ...
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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 15/08/2008
Will spend the weekend in the capital, greet some new visitors from the U.S. and bid farewell to Eileen, who is heading home with literally thousands of photos on her hard drives. (Eileen wants me to put in that not all of the pictures are good but I've seen many that I liked very much.)Then it& ...
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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 14/08/2008
Have learned in two places now that at least some rural areas of Malawi are already starting to run out of food. Heard predictions in the north last month that people would start running out of food in mid-August. Spoke with a group of folks from villages surrounding Neno this morning and they said ...
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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 13/08/2008
Want to write more about the trip to Chilimbondo in the Dambe Traditional Authority. We drove for about an hour and a half from Neno on a rocky road ever higher. Went through several areas where there were no villages, but everywhere there were signs of human cultivation: furrowed fields on the hill ...
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