Dr. Ruth Damuse, oncology program director for Partners In Health’s Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante, helped establish PIH/ZL’s formal cancer care in Haiti. Zanmi Lasante’s oncology program started at its hospital in Cange in the Central Plateau and now serves patients at University Hospital in Mirebalais. The hospital sees an Read more…
After the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Students for Partners in Health: Toronto shifted gears to help raise awareness of the disease and what is being done about it. On November 25th, 2014, we hosted our first interdisciplinary speaker panel to shed light on the disease for students at U Read more…
Surgical residents participate in early morning rounds at University Hospital, under the guidance of Dr. Mac Lee Jean Louis, director of surgery. Dr. Mac Lee Jean Louis is the director of surgery at University Hospital in Mirebalais, which Partners In Health operates in partnership with Haiti’s Ministry of Health. Born and Read more…
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Gedeon Ngoga, 34, is a noncommunicable diseases program manager at Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima. I always wanted to become a nurse. As a child, I didn’t know the difference between nurses and doctors — all I knew is that the people in white coats had the power to help Read more…
As featured in The Toronto Star, 02/17/14: One hospital is an advertisement for the world’s vow to rebuild Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. The other is a cesspool of broken promises. Source: The Toronto Star
Planning on being in Montreal in early August? Osheaga Music and Arts Festival will be the place to support Partners In Health Canada, bask in the sun, and enjoy dozens of influential musical acts, thanks to our good friends at ALDO Fights AIDS. Montreal-based ALDO Group has been a pioneer in AIDS Read more…
Reachable by bumpy gravel roads or winding walking trails, countless women and their children living in the hills near Thomonde, Haiti are living examples of the power of accompaniment. Margaret is one of them. A mother of four, Margaret (not her real name) was diagnosed with HIV in 1998 and has been Read more…
Benitha Germain is a nurse midwife with Zanmi Lasante, PIH’s Haitian sister organization. In this video, we see the challenges she faces, the care she delivers, and the hope she inspires along the way.
Partners In Health Canada is proud to support the live-saving work being done in West Africa, where PIH and our partners are working to get ahead of the Ebola outbreak. The London Review of Books published an essay by PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer in which he reflects on a Read more…