Faster registration and better access to medical records are streamlining care at the rural hospital, and are hallmarks of PIH’s multi-country effort to improve how health data is collected, stored and used.
No matter where you are in the world, this school year is bound to be different—COVID-19 has impacted education systems from Kazakhstan to Canada, moving some schools fully online and others to a hybrid model. And schools around the world are instructing students to wash their hands, wear a mask Read more…
In a sunlit room, a mother shows her daughter a small pink bead, holding it up in one hand and grasping a plastic jar full of beads in the other. The blue and green mat beneath them is sprinkled with pieces of all colors and shapes. Her daughter, a toddler, Read more…
When Carmela Sánchez gave birth to her son, Rusbin Gómez, it was not apparent that he was deaf. It was only after he turned one year old that Sánchez and her husband, who live in the coffee-growing Sierra Madre region of Chiapas, Mexico, realized that Rusbin did not respond when Read more…
Andre Ndayambaje said the first baby he ever held was his sister’s—in a tragic setting that he will never forget. “It was during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and my sister gave birth in the forest,” Ndayambaje said. “It was raining and cold, and I didn’t Read more…
Balancing full-time academics and raising a family is hard enough. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, student mothers at the University of Global Health Equity, a Partners In Health initiative in northern Rwanda, are facing additional pressures and difficult decisions felt by families everywhere: How to continue studies while also supporting children and spouses who live far Read more…
By Elizabeth CampaSenior Health and Policy Officer and Chief of Staff for the Executive Director Zanmi Lasante (PIH in Haiti) The lack of clean water and sanitation in many of Haiti’s schools and communities makes one wonder if social justice in the nation is dead, and requires a shock back Read more…
This month’s rollout of an electronic medical records system at a Partners In Health clinic in Sierra Leone already is having transformative impacts for patients, staff, and care. PIH’s eHealth team in the West African nation launched the electronic system Feb. 3 at Wellbody Clinic in Kono District, after months Read more…
Minutes after the earthquake hit on January 12, 2010, Loune Viaud began weaving her way through rubble-strewn streets to the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As the executive director of Zanmi Lasante—as Partners In Health is known in Haiti, Loune knew the injured would soon begin arriving at the city’s largest Read more…
In Haiti, one in five children is malnourished and faces physical and cognitive stunting. Severe malnutrition is a life-threatening condition and, when not addressed aggressively, is a leading cause of death for children under 5 in Haiti, and all around the world. To tackle this problem, staff across 12 hospitals Read more…