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• Curamericas Global at the 2023APHA

  Nov 17, 2023

  Experts from Curamericas Global shared with their colleagues aground the world the impressive results of our life-saving work in Guatemala. See the presentations and posters below. Presentations ...

• The Duke School of Nursing and Curamericas Global: A brief historyand celebration of our partnership

  May 26, 2023

  Irene Felsman, DNP, MPH, RN and Andrew Herrera MPH, MBA On March 13, 2014, Curamericas Global attended a presentation by Curamericas Global experts Care Groups at the Triangle Global Health Consor...

• Brenda Booth, NP

  Mar 09, 2023

  Brenda Booth has dedicated her career to improvements in health care delivery in her local community as a nurse practitioner with Highland Family Practice in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Brenda now ...

• Triangle Nonprofit Completes First Global Volunteer Trip Since Pandemic Halted Travel in 2020

  Apr 14, 2022

  WakeMed Labor and Delivery nurses traveled to Guatemala to teach and train female, community workers who treat expectant mothers without access to healthcare Raleigh-based Curamericas Global has j...

• Process Evaluation of Maternal and Child Health Routine Home Visitation Program in Kenya

  Feb 11, 2021

  By Nilpa Shah, MPH CandidateUniversity of California, Los Angeles | Curamericas Global Practicum StudentSummer 2020 Kisii County, Kenya has limited access to maternal and newborn health and emerge...

• September News

  Oct 01, 2020

  ICYMI: Mom-A-Thon is here! We're preparing for our best Mom-A-Thon ever—but we need your help! As the world responds to COVID-19 and the devastating impacts it has on so many, life goes on and o...

• Creating a World Free of Suffering from Preventable Causes: Local Partnerships are Essential to Transforming Communities

  Sep 11, 2020

  Curamericas Global implements community-based programs to reduce infant, child, and maternal mortality. This is achieved by expanding evidence-based interventions and services that provide maternal an...

• Curamericas Global Community-Based, Impact-Oriented Methodology is Helping Local Communities Take Ownership of Their Ongoing Health and Well-Being

  Aug 14, 2020

  Since 1983, Curamericas Global has partnered with communities to save the lives of women and children. These communities have some of the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. They ...

• Curamericas Global Leads Global Community Health Professionals in the Creation of a COVID-19 Home-Based Care Guide for Low and Middle-Income Countries

  Jul 20, 2020

  Since December 2013, Barbara Muffoletto has been one of Curamericas Global’s Program Managers. Since then, she has contributed to the organization’s success and impact in significant ways. Mor...

• Interns Raise the Bar in Leading and Creating a Better Future Now

  Jul 15, 2020

  The future is not happening in a few years, months, weeks, or days. The future is happening now.  A group of interns from the Enloe Medical BioScience Academy has been witnessing and contributing...

• Community Health Facilitators: The Heart of a Community’s Journey to Health and Hope

  Jun 15, 2020

  Last year, Doña Catarina, a community health worker in Calhuitz, Guatemala, sat down with a group of volunteers to share her experience working with Curamericas. For the past five years, Doña Cata (...

• Curamericas Global joins the Pandemic Response Network as a partner

  May 27, 2020

  Raleigh, N.C. – May 27, 2020 – Curamericas Global, a Raleigh-based nonprofit, has joined the Pandemic Response Network (PRN) as a partner to serve the needs of individuals and communities during t...

• Breaking Down Barriers and Maximizing Support and Resources to Create Increased Impact in Remote Places

  Apr 24, 2020

  One of the core principals at each of our project sites is bringing health services to underserved communities. Last year, while a group of medical volunteers was volunteering at our site in San Marco...

• Duke University Nursing Students Travel to Guatemala to Educate and Train, Return Inspired and Changed

  Oct 21, 2019

  Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) students, Lindsey Salisbury and Shelby Strockbine, entered their third semester with a new perspective on the importance of global health and their roles as f...

• Intern-ductions: Introducing the Fall 2019 Interns

  Sep 16, 2019

  Nicholas Toombs (Intern, Fall 2019) Nick Toombs is currently a junior at UNC Chapel Hill, where he is majoring in Economics.  He comes from a very small, close knit family.  His heart to serve pe...

• Bridging the Gap: Healthcare Workers Visit Curamericas Global's Newest Casa Materna

  Sep 11, 2019

  For the likely small percentage of people who could pick out San Marcos, Guatemala on a map, they probably know more about the romantic parts of the area and its history. It’s home to the country’...

• Bridging the Gap: Volunteers Visit Curamericas Global's Newest Casa Materna

  Sep 11, 2019

  Waking up to get a glass of water from the kitchen. Jumping in the car for a last-minute run to the grocery store. Rushing over to your local urgent care due to a spiked fever. These everyday tasks or...

• Opening a brand new Casa Materna in Guatemala and scaling our Care Group and CBIO models into new areas of Kenya - Highlights from the first quarter of 2019

  May 20, 2019

  Our culturally adapted community-based birthing centers have saved countless mothers and infants in Guatemala and Kenya. They provide women with vital health services during pregnancy, delivery, and a...

• A Renewed Calling to Help Others: How One WakeMed Nurse's Trip to Guatemala Returned Her to Her Roots

  May 06, 2019

  For Kelly O’Doherty, it has never been too late to try something new. When Kelly decided to go to nursing school, being in her mid-30’s did not stop her. When Kelly realized her passion was labor ...

• A Day To Honor Our Mothers: Mother's Day 2019

  May 06, 2019

  Happy Mother's Day! What a great day to honor the beautiful mothers in our lives! Did you know? Although there are different reports about who started Mother's Day, it is recorded that the f...

• Answering God's Call: One Doctor's Journey to the Mission Field and Beyond

  Mar 14, 2019

  In 1985, one Sunday morning, Dr. Wes Jones, a Fayetteville N.C. physician, was handed a brochure about a health project in Montero, Bolivia that was being run by a Raleigh-based global non-profit call...

• International Intern Spotlights: Kayla Somerville and Evan Tooker

  Feb 19, 2019

  At Curamericas Global, we rely on the work of international summer interns to maximize our impact in the global communities we support. This past summer, Vanderbilt University Master of Public Health ...

• Universal Children's Day - 2018

  Nov 20, 2018

  Children According to the Oxford Press, a child is "A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority." In sixteen countries, that age is not 18 but rather 17 or 16. Tho...

• Intern-ductions: Meet our Fall 2018 Interns!

  Oct 12, 2018

  Colleen Boyle is currently in her second year of the MPH program in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is from Munster, Indiana and has a...

• Bolivia 2018

  Aug 29, 2018

  A group of eight of us traveled to Bolivia for a leadership tour. It was a whirlwind, with long flights and a short time in each site. We accomplished our goals! We introduced the work to new partners...

• Guatemalan Mom Joins Casa Materna Team as Health Promoter

  Jul 24, 2018

    By: Cecilia Gines, Guatemala Program Intern Help Close to Home The rural highlands in northwestern Guatemala are dominated by green mountain ranges and dispersed aldeas and caseríos (vill...

• Nehnwaa Project - The Story So Far

  Jul 24, 2018

  Recap The Nehnwaa Child Survival Project(NCSP)  was a joint effort by Curamericas Global and Ganta United Methodist Hospital(GUMH). USAID funded the project and it spanned a five year period from 20...

• Curamericas Global Shares Community Health Experience with CCATE through CBIO Workshop

  Jul 13, 2018

  CBIO as a blueprint of community healthcare systems. In June, Curamericas Program & Operations Manager, Barbara Muffoletto, MPH designed and conducted a workshop for the Centro de Cultura, Arte, ...

• 3rd Annual Mother's Day Tea

  May 24, 2018

  We raised money and friends for our 3rd annual Mother's Day Tea in Fayetteville. Every day is mother's day at Curamericas Global Dressed in white gloves and hats, local mothers and daughters from ac...

• Local Nurses Return from Mission Trip Changed and Inspired

  May 03, 2018

  [video width="426" height="240" mp4="https://www.curamericas.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/NEWS14TRIANGLE_05-06-2018_17.08.14.mp4"][/video] Local Nurses Return from Mission Trip Changed and In...

• Empowered women, empower women. #PressforProgress

  Mar 08, 2018

  It’s International Women’s Day, a day to honor and celebrate the cultural, economic, social and political achievements of women over the past 100+ years. It’s a day to remind ourselves why girls...

• We Opened a New Casa Materna!

  Jan 15, 2018

  After months of anticipation, we are excited to announce the grand opening of the new Casa Materna in San Marcos! “The inauguration of the new Casa Materna was a success! The community of Pueblo Nu...

• Part V: The Impact-Casas Maternas

  Sep 22, 2017

  Casa Maternas - Part of the Impact Curamericas Global, a global nonprofit, established Casas Maternas in three towns located in the isolated northwestern highlands of Guatemala. These highlands hav...

• Part I: The Problem: Barriers

  Sep 20, 2017

  Barriers to Health Care in Guatemala Guatemalans battle some of the worst health problems and barriers in the world. This nation consists of high maternal and child mortality, frequent cases of diabe...

• World Breastfeeding Week 2017

  Aug 03, 2017

  The Benefits of Breastfeeding Curamericas Global proudly supports World Breastfeeding Week and the practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding (EBF). EBF means that breast milk is the only form of nutrients ...

• Annual Report 2016 Highlight

  Aug 01, 2017

  The Annual Report for 2016 has arrived! We have just released our 2016 Annual Report, which details the changes and progress we made over the last year. Through your help and support, Curamericas Glo...

• Milestones in Guatemala

  Jul 20, 2017

  This quarter marks another period of great success for Curamericas Global. Every day we help save the lives of women and children in 7 different countries. We are particularly excited about several si...

• Volunteer Spotlight: Sabeeka and Jasmine

  Jul 18, 2017

  In early June, Curamericas had the privilege and honor to work with two incredible, Fayetteville Academy volunteer students, Jasmine and Sabeeka. These students travelled to Guatemala to volunteer in ...

• Volunteer Spotlight: Breanne Lesnar

  Jun 12, 2017

  Meet Breanne Lesnar Breanne Lesnar is currently pursuing her Masters degree in Public Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is spending the first part of her summer voluntee...

• World Health Day 2017: Postpartum Depression and What it Means for Our Communities

  Apr 06, 2017

  Happy World Health Day! This year’s focus is depression. You might be wondering how the maternal and child health work of Curamericas Global relates to depression, but maternal health and depression...

• Be Bold for Change: Curamericas Invites You to Celebrate International Women's Day

  Mar 06, 2017

  Be bold for change. That’s what the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is asking of us. Women around the world, in both developing and developed countries, face many obstacles that ...

• Volunteer Spotlight: Bailey Jeutter

  Sep 22, 2016

  Bailey Jeutter is in the Athletic Training Program at University of South Carolina at Columbia and a former Curamericas Global volunteer. After graduating, she plans to take the BOC to become a certif...

• Community Health that Works: Insights from Sierra Leone

  Sep 19, 2016

  Because of the support of generous donors, 4,000 people in rural Sierra Leone can now prevent deadly diseases, and over 1,000 women now have hope that their children will live to celebrate their fifth...

• Guatemala Volunteer Spotlight: Kelsey Renning's Story

  Jul 21, 2016

  Kelsey Renning is a former Curamericas Guatemala Volunteer, Co-president of Duke Nursing Students Without Borders and a recent graduate of Duke University’s Bachelors in Nursing program. We traveled...

• Curamericas Global recognized for innovative solutions in maternity care and makes an impact on Guatemalan communities

  May 16, 2016

  “In the past our children were born into garbage, but now they are born into cleanliness.” - Member of the Santo Domingo Micro-Regional Committee. Curamericas Global’s Casa Maternas model rec...

• Saving lives through Community Engagement in Huehuetenango, Guatemala

  Mar 07, 2016

  Results from the Community-Based Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Child Survival Survey Report Knowing where and how Curamericas makes an impact is crucial for the success of our programs. Curamericas recently...

• Guatemala Project Phase II Closes with Great Success

  Feb 17, 2016

  “He who has health, has hope. He who has hope, has everything.” –Arab Proverb In the highlands of Guatemala is an area that locals call “the Triangle of Death” as it has some of the worst h...

• Public Health Passion Ignited

  Feb 03, 2016

  Reflections of Curamericas Global volunteer Bess Smith In 2009, I attended a talk by Curamericas Global’s Founder, Dr. Henry Perry, at Appalachian State University. I already had an interest in pub...

• Community Health in Kibera, Kenya: Child Survival & Maternal Health

  Dec 10, 2015

    Over the past 90 days, our partners at Carolina for Kibera (CFK) have been hard at work improving the health of mothers and children living in poverty in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. R...

• Hops for Hope was a Huge Success!

  Dec 10, 2015

  On Tuesday, December 1st, Curamericas Global held its 2nd Annual Hops for Hope event. Thanks to many generous sponsors, donors, and attendees, the event was a huge success. Together we raised $7,38...