Report to the City of Hawassa on Street Women and Children
SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2012 Report to the City of Hawassa on Street Women and Children Martha A. Nathan MD Fulbright Specialist, Hawassa University Referral Hospital Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University Baystate Campus To: Mayor, Hawassa, Ethiopia and City Committee on Street People From: Martha Nathan MD Re: Preliminary report on Study of Hawassan Street Women and Children Date: May 24, 2012 Subject: Street Women and Children Preliminary Report This brief preliminary report summarizes my investigation of 19 street women and 26 children that I conducted from April to June in Hawassa town. I am a visiting physician acting as senior staff at the Referral Hospital Internal Medicine Department at Hawassa University since October 2011, teaching medical students and interns. My husband is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the university. We are both United States Fulbright Scholars. We have collaborated