Where you live should not decide if you live.

 

WiRED International's mission is to provide medical and healthcare information, education and communications in developing and war-affected regions. We can connect doctors to doctors virtually anywhere. We also link grassroots communities directly to essential health information. WiRED’s information centers are locally run and become a central part of the communities they serve. Learn More >

 

 

Click here to watch an introductory video about the International Telemedicine Network (ITN). Coordinated by WiRED International, it is a Web site dedicated to medical education for medical professionals.

17th U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona Joins WiRED Board

 

This month, WiRED is honored to welcome the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, to its board.

 

In 2006, Dr. Carmona successfully completed the statutory four-year term of the U.S. Surgeon General and was named vice chairman of Canyon Ranch, Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the University of Arizona, and president of the non-profit Canyon Ranch Institute.

 

Born to a poor Hispanic family in New York City, Dr. Carmona experienced homelessness, hunger, and health disparities during his youth. The experiences greatly sensitized him to the relationships among culture, health, education, and economic status and shaped his future. Read more >

 

 

Celebrating WiRED's 10th Anniversary

Series: Spotlighting WiRED Around the World

Kosova:

Zgjim Limani, M.D.

To commemorate our 10th Anniversary, we are featuring people who have helped develop WiRED’s programs around the world. This article spotlights Zgjim Limani, M.D., WiRED’s program coordinator in the Balkans. He has helped WiRED bring up-to-date medical information to professionals and the public in a region devastated by wars. In 1999, UN-NATO forces finally intervened with bombing raids to halt the Serbian aggression against the Kosovar people.

When Zgjim Limani, M.D. studied medicine at the University of Prishtina in Kosova during a post-war period, the school had to be rebuilt after severe vandalism by outside aggressors and the bombing raid by NATO. The Balkans had been isolated for two decades by the many wars in the area. “This impacted our health system, too,” says Dr. Limani. Read more >

 

 

WiRED in Kenya: Battling HIV/AIDS

In November 2009, WiRED launched a special fundraising campaign to renew its successful prevention program in Kenya by refurbishing four Community Health Information Centers (CHICs) in and around Nairobi. Read more >