Mojela Masupha is a human resources coordinator for Bo-mphato Litsebeletsong tsa Bophelo, as PIH is known locally in Lesotho. (Photo by Cecille Joan Avila / Partners In Health) When Mojela Masupha was a site administrator for two rural health clinics in Lesotho, he needed a way to travel over steep mountain Read more…
A road stretches toward mountains between the capital city of Maseru and Berea District in Lesotho, where one-fifth of the country’s 2.2 million people suffer from some form of mental illness. Partners In Health staff in Lesotho, and other countries where PIH works, are expanding mental health programs amid rising Read more…
All photos by Zack DeClerck / Partners In HealthFrom left to right: PIH Nightingale Fellows Graciela Cadet, Angeline Charles, Emmanuel Dushimimana, Viola Karanja and PIH CEO Dr. Gary Gottlieb enjoy videos of the fellows’ colleagues and family members congratulating them on their graduation. Emmanuel Dushimimana said doctors and staff in Read more…
Last summer in Maryland County, Liberia—the poorest corner of one of the world’s most impoverished nations—16-year-old Mable Elliot found out she was pregnant. She promptly visited J.J. Dossen Hospital, arguably the best referral hospital for the southeast region of Liberia. It serves half a million people and has been supported Read more…
Every three months or so, Atlehang Seisa saddles up. The lead nurse at Mapheleng Health Center in a bucolic corner of Lesotho, Seisa joins a small team of doctors on quarterly trips by horseback, to villages over the hills. The team stays at the remote villages for a week at Read more…
The authors of this blog are Prativa Baral, Lissa Murseli, and Zahraa Saab, who are dedicated members of the Partners In Health Canada Spark (PIHC Spark) education group. PIHC Spark is a self-organizing collective of volunteers from across Canada building a movement for global health equity and social justice. PIH Read more…
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…