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<p><strong>U.S. Army Africa MEDFLAG 09 Medical Visit Hhohho, Swaziland 090807</strong>
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MEDFLAG medics provide relief to Swazi villagers

By Staff Sgt. Lesley Waters
CJTF-HOA Public Affairs

HHOHHO, Swaziland – U.S. military medics partnered with Umbutfo Swaziland Defence Force (USDF) and a Swaziland Public Health medical team to offer care to nearly 500 Swazi villagers during MEDFLAG 09.

The village, in the Swaziland's Zinyane Province, was one of four villages the MEDFLAG team visited during the two-week exercise. The 35-member U.S. medical team arrived in Hhohho on Aug. 7 for a two-day visit.

U.S. Army Africa is conducting MEDFLAG 09, a joint and combined military exercise that supports U.S. Africa Command's Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) strategy – which includes supporting African countries with medical capabilities.

"It very important for the Soldiers to go out and deliver healthcare into the local villages," said Lt. Col. Michael Money, co-director of MEDFLAG 09 from the U.S. Army's 212th Combat Support Hospital. "Hopefully, by the time we provide the final humanitarian and civil assistance event, the impression we leave with the Swazi government and its people is 'wow, we miss the Americans'."

The U.S. personnel are in Swaziland at the invitation of the Swazi government and in coordination with the U.S. Embassy in Mbabane. They depart Swaziland once the exercise is complete. Before U.S. troops head home, they will provide outstanding medical and dental care to the Swazi people, Money said.

U.S. Army Capt. Julie Bridges, a nurse with the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine Europe in Landstuhl, Germany, provided healthcare training and education to the villagers. She worked closely with local public health leaders on the best way to share her expertise.

"It is important to teach the villagers how to take care of themselves and Capt. Bridges has shared a lot of good information," said Swaziland Regional Public Health Matron Medy Shongwe. "We want to show them how to clean food, boil water to drink, use different buckets for clean and dirty water and ways to prevent getting sexual disease."

A local drama group performed several different health education skits – focusing how to avoid/minimize the spread of diseases.

The medical clinic was a combined effort, said USDF Lt. Col. Moses Zwane, MEDFLAG 09's co-director.

"We couldn't have done these humanitarian missions on our own," Zwane said. "The U.S. couldn't have done the missions without our USDF soldiers and the public health workers."

Photo Caption: Army Spc. Phylicia Rolland, 212th Combat Support Hospital medic, entertains a child while the parent meets with a physician during the first of a two-day combined medical and dental civil assistance project (MEDCAP and DENCAP) as part of exercise MEDFLAG 09 in Hhohho Village, Swaziland on Aug. 7.

Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Lesley Waters. CJTF-HOA Public Affairs

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