In collaboration with Liberia’s Ministry of Health, National Public Health Institute, and Maryland County Health Team, Partners In Health Liberia is operating a 26-bed quarantine centre in the coastal city of Harper, supporting the government’s COVID-19 response across Maryland County in Liberia’s southeast. The centre will accommodate people who have traveled from high-risk Read more…
Dr. Mary Yang, from Toronto, ON, completed her psychiatry residency at University of Toronto in June 2019. After residency, she began a fellowship with Partners In Health, whose work she had followed since high school, and went to Liberia as PIH’s 2019-2020 Dr. Mario Pagenel Global Mental Health Delivery Fellow. Read more…
The Women and Girls Initiative (WGI) promotes adolescent girls’ social protection, empowerment, and leadership. Under the hospices of Partners in Health, WGI has worked to empower the most marginalized and disadvantaged adolescent girls and young women in Rwanda and Haiti through scholarships, youth resource centers, and summer leadership academies. Since Read more…
Following the first confirmed COVID-19 case on March 19, the Haitian government announced the closure of the country’s main point of entries, including ports, airports, and the border with the Dominican Republic. For more than 15 years, Zanmi Lasante (ZL)—as Partners In Health is known in Haiti—has been providing health Read more…
Partners In Health is thrilled to announce that Oscar-winning filmmaker and actor Taika Waititi will lead a glittering line-up of global stars in a multi-week reading via YouTube of the Roald Dahl classic James and the Giant Peach, to benefit PIH’s global work and response to COVID-19. In the 10-episode series, 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…
PIH co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer recently spoke with Nahlah Ayed on CBC Ideas, sharing his story, and that of the founding of Partners In Health in Haiti over 30 years ago. Dr. Farmer offers his perspectives on global health, the damage done by policies “socialized for scarcity on behalf of Read more…
In mid-March, when Dr. Chiyembekezo Kachimanga stood in front of a hushed crowd of Partners In Health staff members and began talking about COVID-19. The disease had not yet made its way to Sierra Leone–but he knew it soon would, and time was short. “It’s a very difficult pandemic; countries Read more…
One thing every mother knows is that babies arrive on their own watch. Labour is unpredictable. In the best of times, labour begins when the expectant mother is mentally and physically ready to give birth, and the hospital to which she is admitted is fully staffed, stocked, and ready to Read more…