Photo by Jon Lascher / Partners In Health Fatu Kamara receives the first of two doses of oral cholera vaccine in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The teams wound down dirt paths, high-stepped through muddy slums, and climbed stairs cemented into lush hillsides. Never mind the lack of road signs and house Read more…
The Partners In Health truck kicked up gray dust as it rolled to a stop, just down the hill from the two-room shack where 17-month-old Lovenyou Pierre lived with seven of his relatives. Lovenyou’s mother, Jodanie Louis, emerged from the modest home, and he followed close behind. Lovenyou tightly gripped Read more…
Lunie Lozama was the picture of a mischievous toddler. Shy yet curious, she hid behind her mother’s legs and played peek-a-boo with visitors to her home in rural Lascahobas, Haiti. Her round cheeks were dimpled, and her shiny black hair twisted into neat pony tails crowning her head. She wore Read more…
Photo by René Delgadillo González Workers clear rubble in Colonia Doctores, a neighborhood within Mexico City, following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Tuesday afternoon. Partners In Health staff reported no significant damage or injuries at the 10 rural clinics and maternal waiting home that PIH supports in Mexico, following the country’s second Read more…
Photo by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health Dr. Patrick Ulysse (center) and Dr. Regan Marsh (right) visit 21-year-old patient Fadacia Mirriam in her home inPleebo, Liberia. After a decade of working for Partners In Health in Haiti, in early 2015 Dr. Patrick Ulysse moved to Maryland County, Liberia Read more…
Photo by Neilsen Fleuristal / Partners In Health Facilities staff anchor a communications antenna on the roof of University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, in preparation for Hurricane Irma. Nearly a year after Hurricane Matthew battered Haiti’s southern coast, the Caribbean nation is preparing for another blow, this time from Hurricane Read more…
Michael G. Seamans for Partners In Health Community Health Worker Manager Fodei Daboh visits a patient’s home during the Ebola epidemicin Sierra Leone in December 2014. One Stone’s response wasn’t exactly a surprise. In up-country Sierra Leone, in the central chiefdoms of Kono District, the man with the rapper-inspired nickname Read more…
In the 1980s, three young people barely out of their teens began a movement that would change global health forever. Bending The Arc—a new documentary about Partners In Health that premiered this year at Sundance Film Festival—has been chosen to kick off the 2017-18 Docs Soup season at Hot Docs Read more…
Registration is closed! Thank you to everyone who signed up. If you still wish to attend, a few tickets may be available at the door, but we cannot guarantee entry due to limited seating. Calling all student leaders, advocates, and interested participants from all sectors of global health, international development, 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…