Recent Projects

• Presented at NADA's 17th Annual Conference April 28-29, 2006 - Acupuncture Training: Guatemalan Community Health Workers Experience. By Dr. Jorge Ibarra, M.D., M.P.H., & Blake Gentry, MPPM. Click here to download a copy of this presentation in PDF format.  Originally, this presentation was part of an American Public Health Association (APHA) panel held in Washington D.C. with other acupuncture projects including the Pan African Acupuncture Project. APHA is the largest public health association in the world. GUAMAP Board of Directors members, Dr. Jorge Ibarra and Blake Gentry were invited in Nov. 2004 to present an Outcomes Study of Acupuncture used in Health Promotion by Guatemalan health promoters. 
• Collaboration with Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud (ASECSA), Chimaltenango - begun Fall 2002.
• GUAMAP Trained Health Promoter - now assists in teaching, and monitoring promoters and treatments throughout the year.
• 2000 - Acupuncture room added to health clinic, constructed with funds from GUAMAP and labor and materials contributed by local residents of Cooperative Maya Itza, La Quetzal community.

Accomplishments

• 2000 - Pre-Natal Vitamin Supplements provided for select female patients in several communities, improving health and vitality of pregnant women for three months prior to and three months after delivery
• Training Manual for Health Promoters - in Spanish, divided into levels
• Training of health promoters as acupuncturists in nine communities: La Quetzal, CPR Peten, La Esmeralda, El Tumbo, San Miguel El Alto, Santa Amelia, Santa Rosita, Nuevos Horizontes, all in  the Peten, San Jose El Tesoro, Yalpemech, in Alta Verapaz. In 2003 adding Machaquilaito, Naranjal and Poptun communities.
• Advanced Course Offered : Trauma and Emergency Medicine.
• Clinic Support: re-supply of disposable acupuncture needles and specified herbal medicines, year-round.
• Treatments - provided year around by 14 GUAMAP certified acupuncturists, for chronic conditions: joint pain, stomach pains, migraines, malaria, female organ disorders, dysentery, symptoms of post traumatic illness.

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