Building Care That Lasts
Partners In Health brings high-quality health care to the places most often left behind, and works alongside local health workers and governments to build care that lasts.
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1
maternal death at Wellbody Clinic in Sierra Leone since 2016
Nationally, 1 in 74 women risks dying in childbirth.
795,200
home visits by community health workers last year
11
countries where Partners In Health delivers care
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Proving the impossible was possible
In the 1980s, experts said it was impossible to treat people living in poverty for deadly diseases, and that quality care in poor communities wasn’t worth the cost.
Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim and Ophelia Dahl set out to prove them wrong. They trained community members as health workers and gave every patient modern medicine and dignity. That model became Partners In Health.
Today, PIH works in 11 countries. We call our approach accompaniment: a promise to walk alongside patients and partners, together, to build care that lasts.
Fatimata’s story
Fatimata Foday was four months pregnant when she was admitted to Jojoima Community Health Center with malaria. Then she lost the ability to move her legs. The care team found tuberculosis in her spine and started treatment. She delivered her daughter, Bintu, safely by C-section, and slowly learned to walk again. Today she is raising a thriving little girl.
Fatimata Foday holds her six-month-old daughter, Bintu.
Chiara Herold / PIH
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