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1. Our 'Night of Jazz' program managed to have new people learn about our activities and raise awareness. We are also putting together a team to organize our October masquerade gala
A Night of Jazz - May 21, 2006 at 6 PM

 2. Katrina affected areas: We continue our work with Children's Health Fund. We have managed to donate physician services, train staff on AEDs and will be organizing an ACLS/PALS course for all staff involved in August of this year.

 3. Pediatric HIV: We are continuing our efforts to work with the Clinton Foundation, UNICEF, Indian Academy of Pediatrics. They are beginning massive training programs for Pediatric ART therapy and prevention of maternal child prevention. We should then be in position to work closely with particular institutions exposed to large vulnerable populations. We have also hopefully set up an Observership at the University of Miami for Dr. Philip Verghese from CMC-Vellore.

 4. Telemedicine: We will be meeting with the MRC in South Africa and looking at doing a pilot program for triage purposes

 5. Andaman and Nicobar Multirehabilitation Center: We have received the generous support of Baptist Health Systems and the use of their telemedicine platform. The islands have the ability for videoconferencing. We are taking an IT specialist to obtain an IP address to enable the use of webcasts for teaching purposes.

6. Dialysis program: We are working with Dr. Syed Hashmi to begin a dialysis program in Pakistan. We have obtained 3 dialysis machines from Clinics Can Help Foundation and are working on location and procuring dialysis supplies.