When community health worker (CHW) programs have focused on supporting patients with pre-defined conditions, the impact for these patients can be life-changing. Community-based accompaniment provided by Partners In Health CHWs in Haiti and Peru more than a decade ago, for example, resulted in game-changing outcomes in HIV and TB care Read more…
Left to right, patients Monitha Johnson, Monimon Gaye, and Samuel Morris sit outside the Tuberculosis Annex in Monrovia, Liberia, in November 2016, during their treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Usually poor. Generally living in the slums or countryside. Busy just trying to stay alive. People who suffer tuberculosis struggle to be seen, Read more…
Marana Toussaint, 37, visited University Hospital near her home in Mirebalais, Haiti, after finding a small lump in her left breast. Oldine Deshommes (background), a PIH social worker, supported her throughout her care. (Photo by Cecille Joan Avila / Partners In Health) It all started with a pain in her Read more…
On a humid morning in November, Guy-Thierry Nyam welcomed visitors to the Nourimanba Production Facility in Corporant, Haiti. Dressed in a red polo and blue jeans, the native Cameroonian and new factory director easily blended in with workers filing into the air-conditioned facility. He peered through a set of windows Read more…
Still healthy today, Adeline Merçon (left), St. Coeur François (middle), and Monèse Gracia (right) were some of the first AIDS patients to begin antiretroviral therapy in 1999 and 2000 through the Partners In Health-supported HIV Equity Initiative. (Photo by Daniel Eisenson/Partners In Health) It was 1998, and Dr. Fernet Léandre Read more…