Partners
ACTS is 100% reliant on people-power.
People fuel our success. They are the Hondurans who participate in and lead projects, our friends, family, and neighbors who contribute funds to buy what’s needed for projects, and the many other organizations who bring expertise, connections, and resources. Thanks everyone - you are what makes it possible.
In the U.S., thanks to the Zondervan Foundation, the Dr. Margo Krasnoff Fund, QUEL Imaging, Women’s Fellowship of Lyme Congregational Church, Hanover Rotary Club, The Geisel School of Medicine Media & Health Behavior Lab, Finger Lakes Independence Center, SMUGMUG, Johnny’s Seeds, James Pace Clayton Foundation, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Norwich Nursery School, GC America, and Henry Schein Cares.
In Honduras, thanks to the core committees in El Rosario including Health & Development, Junta de Agua, the Clinic Committee, and the Committee of Farmers. From throughout Honduras, we thank Agua Pura para el Mundo, Corporativo Molineros, Ibrahim Musleh and Almacén El Estudiante, Medicine for all People/ MAP, Laser Vision Clinic and Foundation, Restoring Vision, Universidad Tecnologica de Honduras, Mayor of Yoro Diana Urbina, Project PESCA, the Yoro Hospital, and Universidad Católica de Honduras, Campus San Pedro y San Pablo.
The Honduran PESCA program of Dr. Suyapa Bejarano’s well-trained medical students provide essential study personnel and are the front-line people interacting directly with the study participants. Above, a truck full of men arrives for the Men’s Jornada where they were screened for five cancers.
To prepare teens for health decision making, ACTS conceived a program called Taking Care of You for 72 students. We are grateful to the Dr. Margot Krasnoff Foundation for funding. Hondurans César Alas MD and Karla Molinaro MD developed and are evaluating the curriculum. The series began with Taking Care of Moms for post-partum mothers.
ACTS' U.S.-based cancer partner is Dartmouth Cancer Center; in Honduras, it is La Liga Contra el Cancer. The medical students in Dr. Suyapa Bejarano's Honduran PESCA program are the front-line people interacting with the study participants. Above, a truck full of men arrives for the Men’s Jornada where they were screened for five cancers.
The Dartmouth Center for Global Oncology’s Mary Chamberlin MD onsite in El Rosario briefing the PESCA group of Honduran medical students who will serve as study personnel for a Women’s Jornada to screen for cancer.
The Yoro Public Hospital is a key provider for residents of the ACTS catchment area. ACTS contributes materials and funds, most recently to finish this maternity dormitory that houses women pre- and post-partum in a safe location where they are examined daily and relax and rest before returning home with a new baby to a houseful of responsibilities.
With research led by Gregory Tsongalis PhD, DHMC Pathology has been critical to research with ACTS. We learned what high-tech equipment could function in that environment, how to find workarounds to could replace expensive devices, and identified new knowledge about high-risk HPV in Honduras compared to the U.S., Tanzania, and Kosovo.