PIH’s co-lead psychiatrist on the challenges, progress, and work yet to be done in mental health care globally Posted on May 25, 2022 Dr. Giuseppe (Bepi) Raviola, co-director of mental health at Partners In Health, writes this reflection as the world settles into a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Read more…
Study shows Malawi’s “household model” also helps reduce stigma, prevent hospitalization Posted on April 4, 2022 For Catherine Benito, a community health worker (CHW) in Neno District, Malawi, Cyclone Ana may have ripped out an entire wall of her home in January, but it didn’t stop her regular visits to 26 households nearby. Benito, Read more…
Patient becomes advocate in diabetes management in rural Liberia Posted on Nov 19, 2021 Tina Thomas was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 26 after months of feeling unwell. She had lost weight, was urinating frequently, drinking water, and sometimes eating excessively. “My complexion changed and people kept Read more…
Clinical training, community-based care, and connecting patients with specialized services central to decade’s work Posted on Aug 6, 2021 A decade ago, a team of clinicians and health advocates in rural Chiapas united under a simple yet radical vision: every person has a right to health. The team—Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, Read more…
Socios En Salud celebrates quarter century of lifesaving care, systemic change Posted on Jul 6, 2021 A quarter of a century ago, in the hillside communities of Carabayllo, Partners In Health dared to pursue a simple yet radical idea: no patient should die because a disease was considered “too expensive” Read more…
In The Lancet Global Health: Community health workers key to contact tracing Posted on May 4, 2021 In much of the world, contact tracers pick up the phone. But in places like Chiapas, Mexico, they knock on doors. That’s because phone and internet service are hard to come by in Mexico’s Read more…
PIH starts using new tool to expand access to testing, care Posted April 5, 2021 Just weeks ago, Erick Alarcón spent his days racing motorcycles, working in construction and providing for his family. But a diagnosis of tuberculosis brought everything to a standstill. “I already knew that something was wrong,” Read more…
Community health workers, social mobilizers key to education, referrals, and care in pandemic Community health workers (CHWs) prove to be the backbone of any health system, providing a link between households and health facilities. As Partners In Health (PIH) learned during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa from 2014 to Read more…
Leini Escalante provides compassionate care in her community amid pandemic Each day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Leini Escalante works at a community clinic in rural Chiapas, Mexico, helping clinicians care for COVID-19 patients. In the middle of the day, she returns home to feed her two children. Then, Read more…
PIH Liberia psychosocial worker Helena Wesley is on a mission to help people who are “lost” and on the streets in her native Maryland County People struggling with mental health conditions who have stopped receiving treatment or taking medication—and as a result have seen their conditions worsen and may be Read more…