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| Organization | American International Health Alliance-Sister City, Baku, Azerbaijan (AIHA) | | Description | Specific objectives are to:
Establish a neonatal resuscitation center to train health professionals at Mir Kasimov Republican Clinical Hospital in Azerbaijan to improve care for IDPs and refugees.
Evaluate prenatal, obstetric and perinatal services to establish contemporary, cost-effective prenatal, obstetric, and perinatal care services at the Mir Kasimov Republican Clinical Hospital.
Assess current community health strategies to improve public education and preventive health services delivery, including prenatal care, well-woman care, disease prevention, chronic disease management and additional areas based on a community needs assessment.
Establish access to communication, data and health resources via print, media and Internet materials and investigate the possibility of acquiring resources to create, duplicate and distribute health education materials for IDPs and refugees and to enable partnership contact.
Provide training and education to improve nursing skills and services in Azerbaijan.
Shift patient-oriented activities to rayon hospitals serving refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP\\'s) camps in the catchment area of Mir Kasimov Hospital.
Identify targeted camps outside Baku to implement and pilot test activities described in the workplan.
| | Mission | The overall goal of the partnership between the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the "Mir Kasimov" Republican Clinical Hospital in Azerbaijan is to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees and IDPs in targeted camps and communities in Azerbaijan. | | Primary | Dr. Armin Weinberg
| | Email | arminw@bcm.tmc.edu | | Web Page | http://www.aiha.com/index.jsp?sid=1&id=964&pid=10 | | Categories | Human Rights, Medicine | | Regions | Central & South Asia |
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