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  • Title: Technical assistance from student interns.
    Author: Gass PM, Barber-Madden R.
    Journal: World Health Forum; 1993; 14(2):183-7. PubMed ID: 8185769.
    Abstract:
    Student interns in public health from Columbia University, New York, have been providing short-term technical assistance to health service agencies in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The arrangement has proved beneficial to both the interns and the agencies. Through the Maternal and Child Health International Public Health Internship Program of the Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia University, student interns in public health have been providing short-term technical assistance to insufficiently funded and understaffed agencies in Latin America and the Caribbean for 6 years. Interns are offered experience in international health lasting 7 to 10 weeks in a Latin American or Caribbean country. Projects are undertaken by interns in the following areas: utilization of health and family planning (FP) services; public health advocacy on behalf of women and children; AIDS prevention and education; and the status of women. To date, 54 interns of 19 nationalities have completed over 49 project in 21 countries. 21 interns from Sao Paulo and 6 from Columbia University have participated in 4 internship projects related to health advocacy. 40 reports have been presented to agencies. Interns have studied the utilization of FP services in Belize, Dominica, Ecuador, Guyana, and Mexico. Reproductive health education,including the prevention of teenage pregnancy, curricula were developed for agencies in the Bahamas and Belize. An AIDS prevention information campaign was carried out in St. Vincent. Surveys of people's knowledge, attitudes and practices in regard to AIDS were undertaken in Dominica and Guyana. In Trinidad, focus groups provided baseline information for the development of an AIDS education booklet for women aged 20-35 who had not completed secondary school. Interns completed an analysis of policy and research reports about the health and social status of women in Brazil. In November 1990, a questionnaire was mailed to the 20 agencies with whom interns had collaborated since 1986 to evaluate the interns' activities. The comments made clear that the new material and techniques had proved useful.
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