COVID-19 RESPONSE: Please help us act quickly to enable safe testing, provide high quality care, perform critical contact tracing, and support our public sector government partners in a time of urgent need.
We have been here before.
From our experience with cholera, Ebola, HIV and tuberculosis, we know that COVID-19 will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable—the very patients that Partners In Health serves. We also know that facility and community-based solutions can minimize the death toll of epidemics and help to contain the spread of disease.
We know how to respond.
The best response is through a strong health system—one that has the necessary staff, stuff, space, systems and social support in place to be able to prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease.
Community health workers (CHWs), who make up the majority of PIH’s staff world-wide, are strategically placed to educate the population about a new disease, perform active case finding, accompany those who are ill to health facilities, and support those who are not ill but need to remain isolated at home through targeted social support.
This fight will be long, but PIH has a plan.
PIH is mobilizing to support some of the most at-risk people around the world to:
- contain and control the spread of the virus,
- ensure that patients are provided with dignified care, and
- demonstrate to the world what aggressive action in vulnerable settings can achieve.
Read more about our response.
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Research: Decreased Use of Maternal Health Services During Start of Pandemic
Prenatal appointments, childbirth at health facilities impacted by COVID-19 Posted on June 14, 2022 COVID-19 has been devastating all around, but a new study evaluates its toll on new mothers in six countries where Partners In Health works. A report by an international team of academic and on-the-ground researchers, published in BMJ
