Partners In Health Canada launched five years ago, following an outpouring of support from Canadians after the earthquake in Haiti. Today, with you by our side, we continue to fight the good fight for global health equity. We hope you’ll join us at Arta Gallery on October 1st to celebrate our Staying Power—the Read more…
Top to bottom: Dr. Vanessa Redditt,Dr. Obidimma Ezezika, Trevor Stratton Interested in international development, social medicine, or health equity? PIH Canada’s second annual Spotlight On Global Health will take place on Sunday, August 28, 2016. Open to the public, this comprehensive afternoon session offers a chance to explore issues surrounding global health and Read more…
The Canadian government is undertaking a review of its international assistance programs and has invited feedback from individuals and Canadian development organizations. PIH Canada’s submission to the review is below. To read the government’s background document related to the review, see http://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/assets/pdfs/iar-consultations-eai-eng.pdf Global Affairs Canada – International Assistance Review Submission Read more…
Since 2012, a Partners In Health-supported public hospital in northern Rwanda has treated thousands of patients for breast cancer, lymphomas, and more. But even Butaro Hospital has struggled to treat late-stage cancers and other conditions needing radiation therapy. Like many developing countries, Rwanda lacks a $4 million radiation therapy machine. Read more…
Photo by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health A view of the maternity ward at J.J. Dossen Memorial Hospital in southeast Liberia in 2015.PIH is nearly finished with a six-month remodel of the hospital. When a pregnant woman in rural, southeast Liberia visits a public health clinic near her Read more…
Photos by Leslie Friday / Partners In Health Community health worker Eudeli Velasquez (left) checks the pillbox of her patient,Rosemberg Lopez, who lives with schizophrenia in Reforma, Chiapas. Dr. Enrique Valdespino had no idea a man lived locked inside a shack three blocks from the clinic in rural Reforma, Chiapas, Read more…
By: Don CayoPublished April 22, 2016/Vancouver Sun A decade and a half ago, Paul Farmer was directing some strong words — he says he was critiquing and advising, not scolding — at the global health and political establishment for its non-response to the plight of billions who are poor and Read more…
Photos by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In HealthNew Pleebo Health Centre in Pleebo, Liberia, on Sept. 24, 2015. When the Ebola epidemic in Liberia began to wind down a year ago, the journalists folded their notebooks, the aid workers helicoptered off for other emergencies, and Partners In Health staff Read more…
Written by: Mylini Saposan, member of the Education subgroup of the PIHC Working Group. On February 26, 2016, I had the privilege of attending the Student Global Health Forum, hosted by the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research at the University of Waterloo. The result of the efforts of student committees Read more…
The Tula Foundation is a hidden gem within the Canadian philanthropic community. Headquartered at Heriot Bay on Quadra Island, Tula’s Hakai initiative undertakes a range of ground-breaking environmental, science and leadership programming on BC’s Central Coast, while TulaSalud addresses primary health systems and nursing in rural and indigenous regions of Read more…