This gift will support the health of women and children in Liberia. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO – Jan 22, 2024 // Partners In Health Canada is thrilled to announce a $1-million gift from The Honey & Barry Sherman Legacy Foundation in support of lifesaving women’s and child health programming in Read more…
Improved care, training, systems save more lives every year Posted on Jan 11, 2024 With her left hand on an expectant mother’s belly, Sister Patricia Efe Azikiwe raises her right hand, wiggles her fingers, and explains how to examine the patient’s abdomen. With the fingertips, not the palm, she emphasizes. Read more…
From hospital expansions and cholera treatment to lifesaving medical oxygen and global advocacy, images tell PIH’s story Posted on Dec 23, 2023 Partners In Health staff and partners expanded a state-of-the-art hospital in Rwanda. Clinicians cured patients living with tuberculosis. Technicians helped deliver lifesaving oxygen to more patients across the Read more…
PIH widens access to testing, care in remote Indigenous communities Posted on Dec 21, 2023 Miguel Apolinario does not remember ever having worked under such extreme temperatures as those in Loreto, a region located in northeastern Peru, in the heart of the Amazon. “I checked my cellphone and the temperature Read more…
In Mexico, PIH provides chronic care for hundreds of patients each year Posted on Dec 21, 2023 Carlos Vázquez is originally from Pequeñez, Chiapas. At 67 years old, he continues to work on his farm, where he grows coffee, corn, and beans a few meters from his home. He has Read more…
Saio Kamara proudly holds a yellow, pocket-sized paper and with a smile tells those around her: “This is my TB certificate.”
It’s more than just a piece of paper. It marks a major milestone: being cured of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The document includes details, such as her diagnosis, treatment type, and, most importantly, her completion date: March 31, 2022. It’s a day she’ll never forget.
Top media coverage and events highlight PIH’s impact in global health At Partners In Health, 2023 was a year of deepening our commitment to global health equity, from sustaining our care for millions of patients worldwide to advocating for policy change. From Haiti to Peru to Lesotho, we continued to accompany Read more…
Sustainability requirements for charitable organizations or local partners are more about funders’ unspoken needs for an exit strategy than a measure of smart project design. Toronto Star Op-Ed written by Mark Brender Originally published on the Toronto Star. Donors to international development initiatives often cite project sustainability as a key criterion in their Read more…
Clinical trial results presented for the first time today at the Union World Conference on Lung Health revealed evidence to support the use of four new, improved regimens to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB). The team—led by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Partners In Health (PIH), and Interactive Research and Development (IRD) and funded by Unitaid—formed the endTB consortium and began this Phase III randomized controlled trial in 2017.
Mobile clinics treat patients sooner, educate families on gender bias and nutrition Posted on Nov 17, 2023 Philistin Gloria’s parents were worried. Their 2-year-old child, the third of four, was refusing to eat, despite her thin frame, and her breathing had become labored. So Gloria’s father, a driver, and mother, Read more…