More than a year after the January 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti, Cornell's GHESKIO clinic continues to provide aid to patients with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. 

As Director of the GHESKIO clinics in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, I’d like to thank you all for the outpouring of support, sympathy and sacrifice on behalf of the people of Haiti as we continue to struggle in the wake of the powerfully destructive earthquake. As you have heard, the death toll is in excess of 200,000 and our small country is dealing with over 250,000 injured.

I had moved to Haiti on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 to begin a job as the Nutrition Training Coordinator for the GHESKIO Centres – HIV/AIDS and TB clinics that collaborate with Weill Cornell’s Medical College. I had just begun to get adjusted to living in Haiti. However, the series of events to follow were not as smooth. On Tuesday evening, January 12, only five days after having arrived in the country, a 7.0+ earthquake hit Port-au-Prince and many of its surrounding areas. I was at the GHESKIO clinic at the time of the quake – only a few miles away from the epicenter. The buildings at the clinic did not fall, and by a stroke of good luck, I was left unhurt by the quake.