And they Came!

From the archives...children treated for leg ulcers in DR Congo.

We're off to the Healing Our Spirits Worldwide Conference at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu this week.  HealthEd Connect will be making an oral presentation on the long-term success of the Uferi (children's leg ulcer) program in the DR Congo.  An epidemic of Uferi emerged in 1990 in little villages along the Luapula River.  Within 6 months, over 600 children had been successfully treated by the community health worker volunteers using guava leaf antiseptic and bedsheet bandages.  Many of the ulcers treated had been chronic for years.  Using both traditional and Western medicine, the epidemic was conquered and Uferi are now only a memory.  Once the program was announced and supplies made available, the health workers set up shop....and they came!