As Partners In Health continues relief efforts in southern Malawi following devastating downpours earlier this year, personal stories are emerging that show not only the flooding’s severe impact on families and communities, but also the vital support that, in weeks since, has provided hope, helped people rebuild their homes, and Read more…
Idah Mtunduwatha has worked as a community health worker (CHW) with PIH in Neno District, Malawi, since 2017. A mother of one, Idah’s responsibilities include providing health education and screening services to her assigned households, visiting patients with non-communicable diseases and HIV to ensure they are taking their medicines, and Read more…
When community health worker (CHW) programs have focused on supporting patients with pre-defined conditions, the impact for these patients can be life-changing. Community-based accompaniment provided by Partners In Health CHWs in Haiti and Peru more than a decade ago, for example, resulted in game-changing outcomes in HIV and TB care Read more…
Michael G. Seamans for Partners In Health Community Health Worker Manager Fodei Daboh visits a patient’s home during the Ebola epidemicin Sierra Leone in December 2014. One Stone’s response wasn’t exactly a surprise. In up-country Sierra Leone, in the central chiefdoms of Kono District, the man with the rapper-inspired nickname Read more…
Photo by Cecille Joan Avila / Partners In Health Early morning in Butaro, Rwanda. Every year, Partners In Health publishes “The Year in Quotes”. This year, PIH Canada is embracing this much-loved tradition by pulling out a few our favourites (and adding some of our own). “These are the best Read more…
Photos by Leslie Friday / Partners In Health Community health worker Eudeli Velasquez at her husband’s family home in Reforma, Mexico. It’s not yet noon in Reforma, Chiapas, and the sun sizzles the empty dirt roads crisscrossing this small rural town in the Sierra Madre mountains. Those who venture outside Read more…
In small and remote mountain villages in the Mexican state of Chiapas, Community Health Workers (CHW), referred to here as acompañantes, regularly visit their chronically ill neighbours to provide both medical and emotional support. When people are geographically and sometimes socially isolated and affected by ill health, CHWs provide vital Read more…
Georgina Díaz, Community Health Worker from the community of Reforma In the remote Sierra Madre mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, there are few roles more important than that of the community health worker (CHW). Locally known as Acompañantes, CHWs are a fundamental component of Partners In Health’s integrated health care model Read more…
When did you start working with Partners In Health? I started working with Partners In Health (PIH) in 2005. Before that, I was working as a math teacher in primary school. What exactly is your role as a CHW? Part of my role is to encourage women to be part Read more…