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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 to places you could not have imagined for them.

 

 

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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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 WiRED is . . .

  Efficient - WiRED invests more than 97 percent of all donations directly in program activities.

  Effective - Since 1997, we've grown to 96 Centers in 11 countries on four continents

  Unique - We're the only organization providing these services to Iraq, Nicaragua and most of the other countries we serve.

  Responsive - In a single day, we can convert an empty room into a technology hub

  Empowering - We provide resources without judgment; we employ local residents; we help close the technology gap.

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