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I've seen this blog entry about adopting Haitian children making the rounds. I think it's a good read.

Reed Lindsey (who has been living in Haiti for a few years now) reports on story fatigue. All the good bits of the Haitian earthquake have already been reported, and it's time to move on.

This radio interview with Laura Flynn talks about one of the elements that's largely been absent from coverage of the earthquake: the stories of Haitians helping Haitians. She says, of her colleagues in Haiti:

Their stories are of people helping each other, really, at dramatic risk to their own lives, of people coming together creating organizations right on the ground trying to figure out how to shelter, how to take care of each other physically and mentally.

This interview with Naomi Klein is also quite good, in the typical Naomi Klein way.

Edit: One more. This story is amazing. Man rescued after being trapped under a building for 11 days.

Medical Supplies

One of my colleagues in THAC quizzed a doctor friend who was planning to head down to Haiti. What, precisely, are the important medical supplies? She got this list:

Antibiotics
i.v. Rocephin, Ancef
oral amoxil, keflex cipro and chloroquine

Topicals
steroids, antifungals, flamazine

Blood Pressure meds
lasix, atenolol,aldactone

Other
tylenol, ibuprofen,prednisone, maxeran, ulcer meds

Ear/Nose/Throat
gentamicin, cipro drops

Non Meds
gauze sterile and non sterile gloves,telfa,urinary catheters,iv cannulas, suture material

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