Photo by Elena Devyashina for Partners In Health Clinical lead Irina Pershina and PIH manager Alexandra Solovyova look at x-raysof tuberculosis-infected lungs in Russia. Every year for the past two decades, the World Health Organization has released a Global Tuberculosis Report and it has passed fairly directly into obscurity. This Read more…
Photos by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health Eddy Eustache, or Père Eddy as he’s most often called, is an ordained Catholic priest andpsychologist who has worked with Partners In Health for the past decade, providingmental health care to those in need in Haiti and all around the world Dr. Joia Read more…
Community Health Workers take part in agender-based violence workshop Rodeline’s letter, in original Creole It has been nearly a year since PIH Canada and our Haitian sister organization Zanmi Lasante (PIH/ZL) launched PIH’s first comprehensive program to treat and prevent gender-based violence in Haiti. While we can’t yet speak to Read more…
When did you start working with Partners In Health? I started working with Partners In Health (PIH) in 2005. Before that, I was working as a math teacher in primary school. What exactly is your role as a CHW? Part of my role is to encourage women to be part Read more…
Nancy Wu (below, right) is a Bachelor of Medical Sciences candidate at the University of Western Ontario. She is also on the executive team of Western University Students for Partners In Health Canada, and attended our annual student conference for the first time this year. She shares her experience below. Read more…
If the inaugural 2015 PIHC Case Competition is any indication, the promise of future Canadian contributions to global health is bright indeed. Partners In Health Canada hosted its first annual Spotlight On Global Health Aug. 23 in Toronto. The afternoon consisted of a networking session, two guest speakers, and a Read more…
We asked three first-year residents at University Hospital of Mirebalais in Haiti to tell us about their mentors. Resident Name: Dr. Aurelie Gilles, First-year resident in Internal Medicine Mentor: Dr. Philip Cleophat, Director of Internal Medicine Why is this person your mentor? Dr. Philip Cleophat is passionate. He not only Read more…
Photo by Christina Congdon for Partners In Health LIBERIA – JUNE 2015: Tubman University nursing graduates study for their licensing exams. At the Liberian national nursing exam, a stressful two-day affair at a dilapidated hospital in the capital of Monrovia last month, 10 students stood out even before the first Read more…
Listen as Ophelia Dahl, chair of Partners In Health’s board and former executive director, tells the story of PIH’s involvement in Rwanda and some of its successes over the last decade. PIH and its sister organization, Inshuti Mu Buzima, work in partnership with Rwanda’s Ministry of Health.
Cecille Joan Avila / Partners In Health A view from the road to Rusasa Health Center in Butaro sector, Rwanda, in February. Rwanda has long been a front-runner in the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, those eight benchmarks in health, education, and other areas that United Nations member Read more…