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Tèt Ansanm Global Health Initiative, Inc. (TAGHI) is a not-for-profit organization that strives to provide logistical support (medical equipment, supplies, funding, leadership / managerial support, etc.), and well-trained full-time staff coverage to failing and struggling health institutions in the most remote and underserved areas throughout the globe, starting in Haiti. "Tèt Ansanm" is Haitian Creole for “Heads Together” or "United Front".

Tèt Ansanm Global Health Initiative (TAGHI) was founded on May 22nd of 2011 in Poughquag, New york by Garry B. Antoine, MD, RRT; Nirva M. Lindor-Antoine, MD; Susan Cardona, MD; Dominique Delma, MD; Geniene Wilson, MD; and Sashenka Jean-Charles, MD.

The founding members had a vision: empowering dysfunctional and failing health institutions in underserved areas so that they can stand strong in their community and serve their own population.

During their humanitarian missions to Haiti in November 2010, Garry and his wife Nirva had noticed the disparity in health delivery among the cholera victims. Many areas of the country, overwhelmingly the rural, less touristic ones, had an astonishing, deafening absence of both the Haitian health authorities and the international community, to help the victims of the cholera epidemic. During that alarming crisis, a peasant population, with no alternative and no where to turn, was left alone to die. That prompted these founding members to start TAGHI with the sole purpose of concentrating its effort where help was needed most, and where the unnoticed, in dire circumstances, needed basic care and representation.

Tèt Ansanm Global Health Initiative (TAGHI) is dedicated to improving health outcomes in underprivileged areas that are remote and neglected.

With over 30 years of medical experience behind them, the founding members decided to start this nonprofit organization with the mission to focus on outreach to remote underserved areas of the world and help those in need who have no alternative.

TAGHI is incorporated in the State of New York as a Not-for profit organization, and is registered with the IRS. TAGHI has an EIN or Employer Identification Number. They are currently seeking 501-c-3 status. Their headquarters is located in Kingston, New York.

As part of their global initiative to promote and improve access to health care in rural areas, TAGHI has adopted the Human Rights-Based Approach, where every human being, on every end of their spectrum, will be recognized both as a person and as a right-holder.

By adopting the Human Rights-Based Approach as opposed to the Needs-Based Approach, Tèt Ansanm Global Health Initiative shall focus their efforts on advancing health care, not just as a basic human necessity, but also as a human right.

TAGHI's current project is to renovate and expand the already existing building of the hospital in Saint-Raphael, Haiti. Following the construction, the next phase will be to adequately staff and well equip the hospital.