Campaigns - Central America

Guatemala and Nicaragua, 2007

Karen Balos, LCSW, on Guatemala This trip has been indescribably wonderful. At the first clinic we visited, Centro de Salud de Tecpan, Chimaltenago, we were immersed in a sea of beautiful Mayan women wearing rainbows! We treated 90 women for various gynecological infections, running the gamut from Chlamydia to yeast, and oh, by the way, saved five lives, i.e., we zapped their cervical dysplasia, which would have turned into cancer if left unattended. During the rest of our stay in Guatemala we...

PINCC in Central America

La Ceiba, Honduras was our first stop. We worked in 2 local clinics, along with Nurse Specialist Zoila Mejia, whom we had trained to do PAP's and is now learning to detect dysplasia. We were also joined on day 2 by Dr. Dennis, a Honduran public health doctor trained in Cuba who started training in cervical cancer prevention. We worked until 7 pm to see all the women who had come, and were then treated to a lovely cake in thanks by the community's women. After collecting all our team members...