Partners In Health responds to pandemic in Chiapas with compassionate care Armando Torres is a 67-year-old father of four who has dedicated most of his life to working on coffee crops, as do most people in the Sierra Madre region of Chiapas, Mexico. Torres greets everyone he encounters with a 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…
Insights from PIH’s Lesotho, Mexico and United States teams This essay was written by Partners In Health staff directly responding to the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. Dr. Daniel Bernal is tuberculosis project coordinator at Compañeros En Salud, as PIH is known in Mexico; Dr. Melino Ndayizigiye is executive director of Bo-mphato Litsebeletsong Tsa Bophelo, Read more…
Today, on Human Rights Day, December 10, governments are convening at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to decide whether to suspend patents and other barriers on medical tools dedicated to the global COVID-19 response. International human rights law understands intellectual property to be a social construct that cannot interfere with Read more…
PIH Kazakhstan Country Director Dr. Yerkebulan Algozhin is among staff who have recovered from COVID-19 this year, and said facing a pandemic while continuing tuberculosis care has brought his team closer together – as they now prepare for a second wave of the novel virus. When Dr. Yerkebulan Algozhin heard the Read more…
PIH program officer reflects on lessons from Ebola and COVID-19, shares story in support of survivors In Sierra Leone—a country unjustly accustomed to infectious disease outbreaks—COVID-19 has impacted one group particularly hard: Ebola survivors. Years after the world’s largest outbreak of the virus, between 2014 and 2016, those who beat Read more…
App helps screen, increase access to specialists during pandemic Maritza Sáenz has been a singer for years; but when her mother died of a lung disease, the music lost its meaning. It was a loss that the resident of Callao, Peru—a rural community outside of the capital of Lima—describes as Read more…
Medical training program continues vital work amidst COVID-19 pandemic It was the middle of summer in southern Mexico, and the vibrant sun warmed the arms of 10 young clinicians arriving to Chiapas. Little did they realize that their one-year experience ahead would, quite likely, change their lives—and that they would Read more…
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.
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