Our Mission: To provide medical and healthcare
information, education and communications in developing and
war-affected regions.
We believe that assistance programs are like ropes, you cannot push
them, the people must pull them for themselves. Provide people the
tools, the training, some ongoing help, and they will take the programs
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Top Stories
WiRED Plans Programs for 2008
WiRED's staff and board of directors look forward to strengthening and expanding efforts to bring medical information and education to war-affected and developing countries in 2008.
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Medical Information Centers in Bosnia
In October, WiRED established two Medical Information Centers
in Bosnia in areas still recovering from the region’s civil
war. Funded in large part by the Medtronic Foundation, the
centers are on site at medical schools in the cities of
Banja Luka and Mostar. WiRED executive director, Gary Selnow,
was in Bosnia for the centers’ openings.
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WiRED On CNN
On Friday, July 21, 2007, WiRED’s telemedicine program in Iraq
was the topic on one of America’s most-watched news
programs, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360.
The story focused on the significant impact that WiRED’s
low-budget, medical education programs are having in Iraq,
in comparison to some large projects with budgets reaching
$150 million that have “essentially fallen apart,” as
described by Cooper.
WiRED remained resilient throughout the war, spending
relatively little, and continues to empower Iraqi doctors to
save lives by giving them access to the latest medical
information by way of its Medical Information Centers and
telemedicine program providing real-time lectures, seminars
and patient consultations.
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Stories from Kenya
 This is a
collection of essays written by average people who have visited or served as counselors at WiRED's Community Health Information Centers (CHICs) throughout Kenya. The CHIC program is an innovation in dispensing information about HIV/AIDS and other critical health issues to grassroots communities. These Centers integrate computer technology, counselor support and a wide array of community resources in the fight against AIDS in Africa. The essays, written by Kenyans, are sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic, but they all express hope, and they all come from the heart.
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