The centres offer contraception methods to prevent unplanned pregnancies and STIs, individual counselling sessions, and social support Over the past two years, 20-year-old Comfort Cheebo has never missed an appointment for her birth control shots, which are injected every three months. That’s because she doesn’t want an unplanned pregnancy to Read more…
From homes to hospitals, on rough roads and steep slopes, from capitals to rural communities, these moments in time give a glimpse of how PIHers around the world joined together this year to respond to COVID-19, continue lifesaving services across all of our health care areas, and show that health is a human right Read more…
A list of our 14 favourite press moments from the past year There was no shortage of work for Partners In Health (PIH) in 2020 and headlines captured that well. From CNN to Forbes to CBC and beyond, leading North American news outlets featured PIH’s efforts to stop COVID-19 and deliver Read more…
Lesotho health leaders said the country’s first medical oxygen plant is a landmark for building a stronger health system during COVID-19 and beyond A new oxygen plant installed at Partners In Health supported Botšabelo Hospital is the first such facility in Lesotho and will save lives during the respiratory COVID-19 pandemic Read more…
Partners In Health responds to pandemic in Chiapas with compassionate care Posted on December 17, 2020 Armando Torres is a 67-year-old father of four who has dedicated most of his life to working on coffee crops, as do most people in the Sierra Madre region of Chiapas, Mexico. Torres greets Read more…
Community health workers, social mobilizers key to education, referrals, and care in pandemic Community health workers (CHWs) prove to be the backbone of any health system, providing a link between households and health facilities. As Partners In Health (PIH) learned during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa from 2014 to Read more…
The executive director of PIH in Lesotho talks about his dedication to rural medicine, his love of animals, and responding to a pandemic during his first year at the helm Dr. Melino Ndayizigiye grew up in a remote village in Burundi, the ninth of 10 children, born to parents who Read more…
1. Your gift with help strengthen health systems to fight COVID-19 and build resiliency to combat future emergencies Partners In Health is committed to standing with the families and communities we serve throughout this pandemic and beyond. We are leveraging almost four decades of experience fighting infectious diseases to counter COVID-19 Read more…
The podcast tells the story of Sierra Leone’s only psychiatric teaching hospital and inspires a conversation about mental health—in the past, present and future. How is mental health connected to history? And what can one hospital teach us about it? In Unchain, a new podcast miniseries from Partners In Health, doctors, patients and historians in Read more…
Leini Escalante provides compassionate care in her community amid pandemic Each day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Leini Escalante works at a community clinic in rural Chiapas, Mexico, helping clinicians care for COVID-19 patients. In the middle of the day, she returns home to feed her two children. Then, Read more…