Following the first confirmed COVID-19 case on March 19, the Haitian government announced the closure of the country’s main point of entries, including ports, airports, and the border with the Dominican Republic. For more than 15 years, Zanmi Lasante (ZL)—as Partners In Health is known in Haiti—has been providing health Read more…
Partners In Health is thrilled to announce that Oscar-winning filmmaker and actor Taika Waititi will lead a glittering line-up of global stars in a multi-week reading via YouTube of the Roald Dahl classic James and the Giant Peach, to benefit PIH’s global work and response to COVID-19. In the 10-episode series, Read more…
Andre Ndayambaje said the first baby he ever held was his sister’s—in a tragic setting that he will never forget. “It was during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and my sister gave birth in the forest,” Ndayambaje said. “It was raining and cold, and I didn’t Read more…
Balancing full-time academics and raising a family is hard enough. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, student mothers at the University of Global Health Equity, a Partners In Health initiative in northern Rwanda, are facing additional pressures and difficult decisions felt by families everywhere: How to continue studies while also supporting children and spouses who live far Read more…
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, patients aren’t just at risk of contracting its resulting illness, COVID-19. They also face higher risk for all other health issues, as many facilities must divert resources from routine medicine to emergency care. What’s more, COVID-19 is preventing families from seeking the care Read more…
As Liberians celebrate Mother’s Day throughout May, on different dates according to different religious leaders and churches, one new mother in particular is thankful for her first child and newfound joy. Because for Jacqueline Bedell, 23, motherhood did not come easy. Bedell was six months pregnant when she visited Pleebo Read more…
The following essay was written by Dr. Sheila Davis, PIH’s CEO and an expert nurse, in honour of Nurses Week, which extends from May 6 through May 12. This is not the celebratory Nurses Week I had imagined for 2020. This being what the World Health Organization named the Year Read more…
PIH co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer recently spoke with Nahlah Ayed on CBC Ideas, sharing his story, and that of the founding of Partners In Health in Haiti over 30 years ago. Dr. Farmer offers his perspectives on global health, the damage done by policies “socialized for scarcity on behalf of Read more…
Construction has begun on a new emergency care facility that will dramatically improve care and services at Pleebo Health Center in Liberia—so much so, Joseph Lusaka said, that it will feel like a long-held, angry stare finally is looking elsewhere. “We are committed to giving patients the health care they need Read more…
The world is seeing now more than ever, how washing hands with soap and water has become one of the most important ways to prevent the spread of infections leading to illness. However, in lower-income countries, access to clean water is a luxury that most cannot afford. This is an Read more…