----- Original Message -----
From: "James L Wierman" <jwierman@...>
To: <stepsue@...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:01 PM
Subject: Fw: Meet Jim Wierman on the plane


> Dear Sue: I have taken a few days to get things together on our lab test.
>
> We use our office equipment for finger stick blood sugars, dip stick
> urines, and Hb. (Statsite M Hgb, machine and 300 strips with control
> solution for $350). Malaria antigen is Optimal - IT from
> DiaMed-Caribbean, Inc, 6157 NW 167th St., Suite F23, Miami, FL 33015.
> Telephone 305-558-4510 E-mail: Diamedcaribbean@.... Cost 24kits
> $77.00, min. order $150, Shipping and handling $35. The HIV test was
> OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Test at cost of 25kits for $233 which can be
> obtained from any medical supplier. At my AIDS conference at Johns
> Hopkins last year they said this simple office test is currently the more
> accurate immediate evaluation.
>
> During our mobile clinic of about 950pts we did 120 urines, 11 blood
> sugars, 31 HIV Antibodies (3positive), 55 Malaria antigen (all negative).
> We had a few positive for malaria last year.
>
> I do have some tests that will expire in May of this year if anyone wants
> to take them to Haiti or to try them out.
>
> Thanks Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martha Sternbergh" <mwsternbergh@...>
> To: "Jim Wierman (Jim Wierman)" <jwierman@...>
> Cc: "'sue prullage'" <stepsue@...>
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:39 PM
> Subject: FW: Meet Jim Wierman on the plane
>
>
> Jim:
>
> Thanks so much for sharing your trip report. I forwarded it on to our
> mobile clinic team who went to Leogane last November. Sue Prullage is a
> pediatric nurse practioner from Illinois who was a member of our November
> 2004 team. When you met her on the plane she was returning from her
> second
> trip to Haiti where she was was a member of a mission team led by Linda
> and
> Joe Markee in the north of Haiti.
>
> Will you kindly respond to her question, and copy me?
>
> I'm so pleased you had an excellent trip. We have a maintenance work
> group
> from Rivermont leaving on March 5 to work at HSC (and in the Leogane
> district) for a week, and then Mitch Mutter will follow with a mobile
> clinic
> team the next week.
>
> Are you planning to be at the second HSC Network meeting in Ann Arbor
> June
> 3-5? I hope so!
>
> Martha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sue prullage [mailto:stepsue@...]
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:36 AM
> To: Martha Sternbergh
> Cc: sue
> Subject: Meet Jim Wierman on the plane
>
>
> Hi Martha,
> Jim Wierman sat in front of me on the plane leaving Haiti. I heard him
> talking about Leoganne and Joseph's death. I talked with him as we were
> deplaning. Interesting isn't it. I would love to know more about the
> malaria testing. Is it a simple kit and does it cost much?
> Sue
>
>