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Watch this video of Dr. Paul Farmer—and see all we’veaccomplished together: Help us transform hospitals and health centers from Haiti to West Africa—and bring care topeople in the world’s poorest communities:
Watch this video of Dr. Paul Farmer—and see all we’veaccomplished together: Help us transform hospitals and health centers from Haiti to West Africa—and bring care topeople in the world’s poorest communities:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Rollins, Interim Chief Communications Officer rrollins@pih.org BOSTON (May 26, 2015)–Partners In Health and Zanmi Lasante, its sister organization in Haiti, are proud to announce that 6-month-old conjoined twin sisters were successfully separated on Friday, May 22, at University Hospital (HUM) in Mirebalais and are in Read more…
By: Sadiya Ansari Staff ReporterPublished February 19, 2015/Toronto Star Dr. Paul Farmer wants to stop “stupid deaths” in Haiti — the kind that could be prevented with basic medical care. “Injuries that are minor become lethal,” the physician who co-founded Partners in Health told a crowd Thursday at the Daniels Read more…
As featured in The Toronto Star, 02/17/14: One hospital is an advertisement for the world’s vow to rebuild Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. The other is a cesspool of broken promises. Source: The Toronto Star
Planning on being in Montreal in early August? Osheaga Music and Arts Festival will be the place to support Partners In Health Canada, bask in the sun, and enjoy dozens of influential musical acts, thanks to our good friends at ALDO Fights AIDS. Montreal-based ALDO Group has been a pioneer in AIDS Read more…
Reachable by bumpy gravel roads or winding walking trails, countless women and their children living in the hills near Thomonde, Haiti are living examples of the power of accompaniment. Margaret is one of them. A mother of four, Margaret (not her real name) was diagnosed with HIV in 1998 and has been Read more…
Partners In Health Canada is proud to support the live-saving work being done in West Africa, where PIH and our partners are working to get ahead of the Ebola outbreak. The London Review of Books published an essay by PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer in which he reflects on a Read more…
BOSTON — An advance team from Boston-based Partners In Health heads for Ebola-stricken Liberia Monday. Four doctors, including co-founder Paul Farmer, and two operations staff will lay the groundwork for an ambitious two- to three-year project that will require well over 100 volunteer doctors, nurses, lab techs and public health Read more…
Dr. Paul Farmer — co-founder of the non-profit organization Partners In Health and one of Bill Gates’ global health heroes — stopped by the University of Toronto on June 10th to chat about everything from Haiti and health equity to the growing trend of “voluntourism” in the developing world.
If the Ebola epidemic devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone had instead struck Washington, New York or Boston, there is no doubt that the health systems in place could contain and then eliminate the disease. Hospitals would isolate suspected cases. Health workers would be outfitted with proper Read more…