Three months in, dozens of countries yet to receive a single dose Posted April 5, 2021 More than three months ago, COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out and a 91-year-old woman in the United Kingdom became the first person—outside of a clinical trial—to receive a vaccine. Six days later, a nurse in New Read more…
PIH doctor reflects on challenges, setbacks, and silver linings for health systems Posted on April 5, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted care and services for people living with tuberculosis—until recently the world’s deadliest infectious disease—draining or diverting resources and potentially costing hundreds of thousands of lives that could have Read more…
Fighting two of the world’s deadliest diseases, PIH Lesotho’s Maseru facility is boosting vital infrastructure and conducting outreach across the country Posted April 3, 2021 Partners In Health and Lesotho’s Ministry of Health marked World TB Day with two distinct actions: conducting community tuberculosis screenings in rugged Buta-Buthe District, one of the Read more…
First dose given to essential workers at Center for Respiratory Diseases Posted on February 18, 2021 Partners In Health staff have begun to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Starting in late January, staff members in Chiapas, Mexico, began receiving their first dose of the vaccine, the first step of many in the Read more…
Removing IP barriers for COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics the right step for human rights and stopping the pandemic. Posted February 2, 2021 By Mark Brender and Alicia Ely Yamin On a deeply unequal planet where access to health is too often governed by profit and purchasing power, it’s understandable Read more…
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…
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