Gender-based violence is a critical problem in Panama. Individuals who suffer violence inside as well as outside the home are protected by law. However, getting legal support is a difficult task. Recording a formal complaint with authorities is often complicated: government agencies often function independently yet rely on inter-institutional support to successfully file claims.Our online…

Due to social distancing guidelines, our annual in-person medical conference, usually in Santiago, Panama, became an online international tropical medicine course. Change can be helpful and allow great enhancements to the Conference. We were lucky to have 38 speakers from Latin America and the United States, with more than 2500 participants from 22 countries. In…

To help commemorate the annual Day Against Violence Against Women this past November 25th, CDNA supported the Fémina Festival. The event is a self-managed collective for women of the arts: women artists whose work addresses issues related to violence against women.Fémina Festival creates plays, performances, and other artistic expressions, including conversations with experts on gender,…

In addition to its educational efforts, CDNA occasionally donates essentials to an organization with identical goals. This December, the Health Center (run by the Ministry of Health) in Soloy, Besikó, Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé, was in great need of a refrigerator/freezer to store laboratory reagents. Thanks go to the head of the Health Center, Dr. Desiderio Castillo,…

In July, in a workshop on capacity building among the clinical and social worker employees of Asociación Panameña para el Planeamiento de la Familia (APLAFA), CDNA volunteer Gonzalo Cabezas presented on topics of dating violence and healthy relationships