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  • "Selection as a World of Childen Award Honoree is a profoundly moving recognition for our medical work in Tibet. Your tribute sends a powerful message to these children and their communities: our highest responsibility towards creating a humane future is to reduce the suffering of all children. May their gift of unconditional love embrace and ennoble us all."
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More About MeNancy S. Harris, M.D., has worked for fifteen years to reverse the life-threatening health challenges affecting the lives of nearly one million underserved Tibetan children in the remote Tibet Autonomous Region and adjacent Tibetan ethnic areas of China. Harris first noted unusual growth stunting in children while visiting the region in 1990. For seven years, she and her tri-cultural team of Tibetan, Chinese and Western health workers weighed, measured and examined several thousands of children. The resulting data, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in 2001, documented that these children were not short but healthy as previously believed, but were in fact severely malnourished and chronically ill. As a result these children are at high risk of death from easily preventable and treatable conditions such as diarrhea, pneumonia and tuberculosis. To prevent this needless mortality Harris, Founder and President of the Terma Foundation, worked with local traditional elders, women, and villagers to develop six integrated child and community health programs. Programs are implemented by local Tibetan staff as meaningful, culturally acceptable and sustainable community-based interventions, with emphasis on health education. The survival of these children is the greatest hope for the future of this fragile indigenous culture, which remains geographically excluded from significant large-scale health assistance. Spending six to eight months a year in the field, Harris continues her dedication to generate awareness and direct resources to address this dire situation, which now includes emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Field programs, based in Lhasa, reach over 300, 000 child and community beneficiaries per year. To learn more please visit www.terma.org
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2006 World of Children Health Award Honoree
The Terma Foundation

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'The Terma Foundation implements public health programmes for indigenous peoples, acknowledging traditional belief systems and integrating low-tech, western technology where appropriate.'

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"Vitamin Angel Alliance, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that provides health education and nutritional supplements to medically underserved communities around the world, announced that its periodic donations of calcium and vitamin D supplements aimed at preventing rickets in Tibet’s at-risk children increased to a monthly donation of 147,500 supplements as of September, 2003."