At the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), a Partners In Health initiative in northern Rwanda, the graduating class of master’s students have had a memorable year. Despite a time of global uncertainty, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented new learning opportunities through UGHE’s quality online teaching, offered a new dimension to health curricula, and Read more…
In Neno District, Malawi, district health records from 2019 showed zero cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). But no one working in health care in the rural, mountainous district believed that to be true. And when staff for Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, as Partners In Health is known in Malawi, Read more…
Thousands of women and girls served by Partners In Health in Sierra Leone and Malawi will be empowered to access gender-responsive health services and realize their right to health through support from Global Affairs Canada. The five-year, $12-million project with PIH Canada, launched in 2019 and running until 2024, will 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…
Partners In Health employs or supports nearly 18,000 staff members in 11 countries around the world. More than 60 percent of those invaluable staffers are women, filling vital roles at all levels of the organization. In honour of International Women’s Day, which is celebrated March 8 and this year has a theme of Each Read more…
All over the world, millions of girls are denied basic human rights, such as access to health care and education. Since 2012, October 11 has marked the annual International Day of the Girl, a celebration that advocates for girls’ empowerment and human rights. This year, at Partners In Health, we Read more…
PIH Canada will strengthen rights of women and girls and elevate access to health care and psychosocial support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Haiti thanks to new support from Global Affairs Canada. PIH Canada, in collaboration with our Haitian sister organization Zanmi Lasante (ZL), has been Read more…
For Blessings Henry, a typical school day begins at 3 a.m. The 17-year-old is in her last year of secondary school in Malawi’s Neno District, a rural region of rugged mountains and arid flatlands in the country’s south, near the border with Mozambique. Blessings uses her early mornings, as well Read more…
When Anne Marie Nyiranshimiyimana began working as a mason, she was met with staunch criticism. “They told me, ‘No woman builds, no woman climbs.’ They told me, ‘Women can’t do a lot of things,’” Anne Marie said. Despite that resistance, Anne Marie persevered and became not only one of 200 Read more…
Celebrating Canada’s Gender Equality Week, PIH Canada’s Senior Manager of Programs and Development, Emily Antze, reflects on her last trip to Haiti where she met with social workers, medical staff and community leaders who are working to address sexual and gender based violence with support from PIH Canada.From September 23-29, Read more…
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