Patient to PIHer: Finding Purpose After Hardship At age 6, Mankopane Moeletsi became an orphan. More than a decade later, she now works for Partners In Health. Posted March 15, 2024. Last year, Mankopane Moeletsi was hired by Partners In Health Lesotho to support the orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) Read more…
Social Medicine: What Is It and Why Does It Matter A deeper look at the concept driving PIH’s work around the world Posted February 1, 2024 PIH’s noncommunicable diseases (NCD) team visits Richard Mavuto and his family at their home in Chidakusani, a community in Neno, Malawi. Mavuto, who has hypertension Read more…
A new era of patient care has begun at Butaro Hospital.
After nearly two years of construction and renovation, Butaro Hospital has completed its expansion project, positioning it to offer improved care and services to the over 33,000 patients who seek treatment there each year.
CASITA program supports at-risk children, caregivers Posted on Aug 30, 2023 Henry Domingo Vilca used to be “cold and distant,” not expressing his feelings or connecting with his children emotionally. Now, the sight of his daughter running toward him, shouting “Papa!,” often brings him to tears. “She is my everything,” Read more…
Indigenous health workers in Mexico face widespread discrimination Posted on July 24, 2023 Herlinda Basilio, now a midwife, still remembers the first birth she witnessed. “I’m the oldest of three sisters,” says Basilio, who now works with Partners In Health, known in Mexico as Compañeros En Salud. “When I was Read more…
UGHE ranked 8th among 117 universities across Sub-Saharan Africa Posted on July 24, 2023 Partners In Health (PIH) announced that the organization’s University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda was ranked 8th in the Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings by Times Higher Education. This inaugural ranking included 117 universities from Read more…
How a young woman from rural Mexico fulfilled her dream Posted on May 23, 2023 As a child growing up in Salvador Urbina, a small community in the Frailesca region of Chiapas, Mexico, Cecilia Gálvez would walk two hours with her mother to the nearest health center for vaccinations. During Read more…
Teaching hospital is a culmination of three decades of PIH’s work in Haiti Posted on March 14, 2023 After the devastating 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, health systems were fragile. Hospitals were destroyed. Clinicians lost their lives. And resources were limited. Then, more than ever, spaces and systems needed to be revitalized Read more…
PIH connects thousands of people with essential resources to access and benefit from health care Posted on January 25, 2022 From Rwanda to Peru, Partners In Health provides more than medical care: We cook meals for our patients. We give them a place to stay. We pay for their bus Read more…
The achievement will strengthen the country’s mental health care resources, staff Posted on November 3, 2022 The Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital (SLPTH) has received a formal 5-year accreditation for the first-ever psychiatry residency program in the country. With this accreditation, Sierra Leone will be able to train its own Read more…