Treating South Georgia's Migrant Farmworkers - Slideshow w/ audio

Since 1996, the Emory University Physician Assistant Program's South Georgia Farmworker Health Project has taken groups of medical professionals and students to Decatur and Echols counties to provide free outpatient care to medically underserved migrant farmworkers and their families. Using a mobile outreach model to set up triage camps right in the fields, Emory faculty and students treat everything from chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes, to musculoskeletal disorders. The project is the 2010 Host City Prevention Campaign site, and will receive a $10,000 check from AAPA, the PA Foundation, PAEA and the Student Academy of AAPA. The project receives no federal or state funding.

For more information on the project, go to www.sgfhp.org

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• south
• georgia
• farmworker
• health