Hospital

A hospital is a medical facility that provides specialized healthcare services and treatments to patients who are in need of medical care. Hospitals are typically staffed by trained medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers, who are responsible for providing care to patients. Hospitals can provide a wide range of services, including emergency care, surgery, and rehabilitation, as well as specialized services for specific medical conditions or needs. Hospitals are an important part of the healthcare system, and they play a crucial role in providing access to medical care for individuals and communities.

Three steps every hospital can take to implement human trafficking prevention programs
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Three steps every hospital can take to implement human trafficking prevention programs

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Every successful conversation about preventing human trafficking starts with a simple instruction, according to survivors. “Show empathy,” implored Jose Alfaro at the final 2021 AHA, HEAL Trafficking and Jones Day anti-trafficking convening. Alfaro, himself a survivor, shared how – despite multiple contacts with health care for his post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use and anxiety –…

Hospitals Against Violence workshop provides insights for health care and community leaders to fight human trafficking
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Hospitals Against Violence workshop provides insights for health care and community leaders to fight human trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

For the last in a series of virtual sessions, AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence gathered more than 217 health care professionals and community partners to hear from human trafficking experts, survivors and health care leaders who are working to advance anti-trafficking efforts in their organizations. Participants in the workshop, which was organized by AHA in conjunction…

NHTTAC offering free training for SUD treatment providers to support human trafficking survivors
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NHTTAC offering free training for SUD treatment providers to support human trafficking survivors

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The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center, through its SOAR to Health and Wellness Training Program, invites organizations to form teams for a free, six-week training opportunity and technical assistance package to strengthen your organization’s substance use treatment and referral system for survivors of human trafficking. Training will cover the creation of action…

Latest Hospitals Against Violence working session unites health care and community leaders to fight human trafficking
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Latest Hospitals Against Violence working session unites health care and community leaders to fight human trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

AHA’s latest Hospitals Against Violence convening today gathered over 200 clinical, programmatic and community leaders for a working session on tools, strategies and resources that health care providers can use to fight the global scourge of human trafficking. Today’s working session is part of a series of events focused on hospitals’ and health systems’ efforts…

Organ Harvesting’s Troubled Past — and Complicated Present
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Organ Harvesting’s Troubled Past — and Complicated Present

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At an international conference on kidney transplantation in 1963, a disagreement broke out about exactly when a patient should be considered dead enough to become an organ donor. One doctor stood up, angrily declaring that he was not “going to just wait around for the medical examiner to declare the patient dead. I’m just going…

Hospitals Against Violence convening highlights health care leaders’ role in fight against human trafficking
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Hospitals Against Violence convening highlights health care leaders’ role in fight against human trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative today kicked off the latest convening in a series of events focused on hospitals’ and health systems’ efforts to identify and prevent human trafficking. The series is part of ongoing efforts — in conjunction with Jones Day law firm and HEAL Trafficking — to provide resources to health care…

Biographic Information for Members of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking
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Biographic Information for Members of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking

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Tanya Gould Tanya Gould, a survivor of domestic sex trafficking, is the founder of Identifiable Me, a non-profit that helps move those who have been victimized by sexual violence towards self-discovery and their life’s purpose. Ms. Gould serves as a mentor, consultant, advisor, trainer, and keynote speaker on topics relating to her story. Years after…

New law to stop unwanted human organ harvesting
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New law to stop unwanted human organ harvesting

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By Nicholas Wassajja In 2016 when New Vision reported that deceitful officials were targeting unsuspecting refugees for unsolicited human organ extraction, the story seemed too horrible to be true. However, it has since emerged that illicit clinics, corrupt doctors, including those at the Mulago National Referral Hospital and global networks, are dealing in the illegal…

That was when I was informed that my friend recruited me as a prostitute to pay off a long term debt…
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That was when I was informed that my friend recruited me as a prostitute to pay off a long term debt…

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My name is Vanessa and I am a single mother of one child living in Thika, Kiambu. After being in an abusive relationship, I chose to walk out and start a new life with my son. It wasn’t an easy journey. Soon, I was depending on well-wishers and my family for basic need support. A…

Instead of facilitating my career as a singer, they forced me into sex work.
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Instead of facilitating my career as a singer, they forced me into sex work.

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I am an artist, songwriter and performer. It was extremely difficult for me to make a living from my passion in Uganda. A friend mentioned there are lots of opportunities for performing abroad. She referred me to an agent who recommended Dubai as a starting point. I was thrilled that I was finally getting the…