On June 10, 2014, Partners In Health Canada and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto hosted a conversation and live webcast with Dr. Paul Farmer on Social Justice and the Movement for Global Health Equity. That conversation can be viewed in its entirety Read more…
This week, Partners In Health Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer visited Toronto, and his passion for health as a human right was heard right across the country. Partners In Health Canada and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto hosted a conversation and live webcast with Read more…
Thomas Murphy is a 4th year Bachelor of Science major at University of New Brunswick. He contacted PIH Canada in early 2014 with an interest in starting a Students for PIH Canada chapter at UNB. We knew right away that he’d make a great addition to the network, but we Read more…
Dr. Jean-Louis Willy Fils is a medical resident in every sense of the word. He’s training at University Hospital in Mirebalais to become a surgeon, living in a residence hall on the hospital campus and working about 80 hours every week. Fils is one of 14 residents—University’s Hospital’s first class—who Read more…
For Partners In Health, the idea of ‘accompaniment’ most often refers to our relationship with patients. It describes an approach of standing in solidarity with those we serve, of listening to their histories and attending to their needs, of being with them on the journey to better health, for however Read more…
Welcome to Partners In Health Canada. Hold on tight, it’s going to be an inspirational ride. I suspect those of you already familiar with PIH will understand exactly what I mean. For me, the inspiration kicked in six or seven years ago after reading Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder’s spellbinding Read more…
We know how to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis—and have for decades—yet barely 0.5 percent of newly diagnosed patients worldwide receive appropriate treatment, write Drs. Salmaan Keshavjee and Paul Farmer in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. In “Tuberculosis, Drug Resistance, and the History of Medicine,” they argue Read more…
Mirline Olisse, a 40-year-old cancer patient, wears one of Jawan’s brightly-colored scarves. With her is head onocology nurse Yolande Nazaire. Photo on right by Amy Banham. How do scarves play a role in cancer treatment? For dozens of cancer patients in Haiti, they provide a chance for dignity—and give hope Read more…