Dr. KJ Seung, who has been fighting tuberculosis with Partners In Health since 2001, urged the World Health Organization and national governments to quickly implement new treatment plans for the deadly infectious disease, in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Lancet Global Health and co-authored by Dr. Cathy Hewison of Read more…
Loune Viaud, executive director of Zanmi Lasante, as Partners In Health is known in Haiti, urged members of the UN Security Council to support more equitable health care options for women and girls in Haiti, to help end sexual and gender-based violence, and to ensure increased participation of women in Read more…
More training for nurses and greater access to family planning services has resulted in significantly more new mothers leaving a Haiti hospital with long-term contraception, a fact that could lead to safer pregnancies and fewer maternal deaths. A recent Partners In Health study found that over just three months at Read more…
Karim Llaro is a nurse who has worked with Socios En Salud, as Partners In Health is known in Peru, for more than 20 years. She began in the late 1990s as a field nurse, administering tuberculosis treatments to patients in their homes. She then became the TB program coordinator Read more…
In January 2018, Bobby Togar arrived at Liberia’s national tuberculosis annex in the capital of Monrovia for the second time in his life. The 42-year-old thought he was going there to die. He couldn’t eat, and could barely draw the breath to talk. With a body mass index of 10—half Read more…
Margarita Perez Jimenez and Martha Domínguez López can both say their lives changed at the age of 14. For Jimenez, that was the year she began working as a traditional midwife in Chiapas, Mexico. For López, it was when she became a single mother. The two women met around May Read more…
Authors of a groundbreaking piece published Thursday in The Lancet Global Health argue that universal health coverage, or UHC, is achievable when local health officials are given the proper tools to estimate their communities’ burden of disease and then use that information to determine the level of staffing, supplies, and Read more…
University Hospital in Mirebalais opened its doors on March 19, 2013, and quickly became a hub of care for the Central Plateau and a magnet for patients from across Haiti. (Photo by Cecille Joan Avila) Six years have passed since University Hospital in Mirebalais opened its doors and began transforming Read more…
The imminent launch of two vans equipped with state-of-the-art technology to test for tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) marks a major milestone for PIH’s and Peru’s fight against TB, the leading infectious killer of adults in the world. Within coming weeks, these trucks will enable PIH to carry out Read more…
Four days of unseasonably heavy rains have left 487,000 people in southern Malawi without homes and property, according to official reports. As families prepared for the end of the rainy season and the approach of the harvest, floods swept away acres of farmland, killed at least 30 people, and injured Read more…