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How You Can Help Train A Health Care Working in the Developing World
It is now well recognized that health worker shortages are a major barrier to improving health and survival in the developing world.
It is now well recognized that health worker shortages are a major barrier to improving health and survival in the developing world.
Welcome to Partners In Health Canada. Hold on tight, it’s going to be an inspirational ride. I suspect those of you already familiar with PIH will understand exactly what I mean. For me, the inspiration kicked in six or seven years ago after reading Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder’s spellbinding Read more…
Partners In Health has also teamed up with the Rwandan Ministry of Health, the Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation and the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s center to open the Cancer Center of Excellence in Butaro, Rwanda–a part of the country that until four years ago didn’t have a basic hospital for a Read more…
We know how to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis—and have for decades—yet barely 0.5 percent of newly diagnosed patients worldwide receive appropriate treatment, write Drs. Salmaan Keshavjee and Paul Farmer in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. In “Tuberculosis, Drug Resistance, and the History of Medicine,” they argue Read more…
Mirline Olisse, a 40-year-old cancer patient, wears one of Jawan’s brightly-colored scarves. With her is head onocology nurse Yolande Nazaire. Photo on right by Amy Banham. How do scarves play a role in cancer treatment? For dozens of cancer patients in Haiti, they provide a chance for dignity—and give hope Read more…
How the global health organization grew from makeshift clinics to a state-of-the-art cancer center in rural Rwanda, and what lies ahead (Hint: Still more mountains)