[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 77 (Tuesday, May 19, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5610-S5611]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CONGRATULATING JHPIEGO ON ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY

 Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, today I wish to commemorate the 
35th anniversary of Jhpiego, an exceptional organization dedicated to 
helping the less fortunate in developing countries around the world.
  Jhpiego is an international, nonprofit health organization affiliated 
with Johns Hopkins University and is located in my hometown, the city 
of Baltimore. For 35 years, Jhpiego has empowered front line health 
care workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, hands-
on solutions to strengthen the delivery of health care services for 
women and their families.
  From their origins as technical experts in reproductive, maternal and 
child health, Jhpiego has grown to embrace new challenges, including 
prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria and cervical cancer. The 
staff of Jhpiego have worked in 150 countries around the globe and 
currently run 60 programs in over 40 countries.
  Scientific innovations are the cornerstone of Jhpiego's approach to 
reducing the preventable deaths of women. I particularly want to 
highlight their work combating cervical cancer. In 1990, Jhpiego 
established its Cervical Cancer Prevention--CECAP--Program. Working 
with colleagues and stakeholders, the CECAP program pioneered a unique, 
medically safe, acceptable and cost-effective approach to cervical 
cancer prevention for low-resource settings called the ``single visit 
approach.'' Hundreds of thousands of women have been spared the 
horrible death of cervical cancer as the result of this intervention.
  Amid many areas of expertise and effort, Jhpiego has worked 
tirelessly in its efforts to call the world's attention to the second 
leading cause of death of pregnant women in developing countries, 
postpartum hemorrhaging. Today, through system wide changes from the 
home birth to the hospital, physicians, nurses, midwives and healthcare 
workers have training and strategies to address this preventable death. 
These interventions have saved countless lives around the world.
  I commend the staff of Jhpiego for their dedication and commitment to 
improving the lives of women and their families around the world. They 
work some of our world's most remote, difficult and complicated 
regions. Day in and day out, they with nations to develop strategies 
that are sustainable, proven and effective to improve the lives of the 
most vulnerable sectors of society.

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  I ask my colleagues to join me today in congratulating Jhpiego on its 
35th anniversary.

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