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The Right to Care: Health and Humanity Amid War in Ukraine
By Yana Panfilova & Helen Petrozzola December is Universal Human Rights Month and reminds us that health is not a privilege or a service extended out of goodwill—it is a universal right. Yet in war-torn Ukraine, that right is being...
How Peace Corps and HIV Wove Our Lives Together
By Helen Petrozzola I didn’t know where the Peace Corps would send me — only that it would be somewhere I needed to be. That was the unspoken pact: trust the process, step into the unknown, and give everything you...
Where Were You the Day Kennedy Was Assassinated?
On Friday, November 22, 1963, Bob Bergstrom and I went to work as usual at the Industrial University of Santander (La Universidad Industrial de Santander — UIS) in Bucaramanga, Colombia. Our Peace Corps assignment there was to develop a program...
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