Free testing, treatment, and counseling restores life and hope in Peru Posted on November 30, 2022 In early 2020, as millions worldwide were grappling with the onset of the pandemic, Cruz Antonio Sifuentes was weathering another storm: a diagnosis with HIV. The 35-year-old resident of Los Olivos, an impoverished community Read more…
For more than 30 years, our focus has been on achieving long-term impact by merging social justice with medicine Posted on November 28, 2022 Finding the best nonprofit to support requires some research. The organization’s mission should align with your personal values. It should tackle the complex issues you are Read more…
PIH fights to make treatment for TB, HIV, COVID-19 accessible to all Posted on November 21, 2022 A pill could save the man’s life. But it wasn’t available in Liberia. For months, he had suffered from an unknown disease, without access to a diagnosis or drugs. He had poured his Read more…
Younger patients, those struggling to meet basic needs more likely to have trouble with medication regimen Posted on Aug 8, 2022 Ludentz Dorcelus clearly recalls the “complete chaos” that overwhelmed his hometown of Port-au-Prince after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, killing some 300,000 people. Dorcelus, 18 at Read more…
Model of care began in Haiti, influenced global policy, and spread around the world Posted on July 28, 2022 In 1986, Partners In Health began caring for patients diagnosed with HIV and AIDS in Haiti. Clinicians with Zanmi Lasante, as PIH is known in Haiti, started with free testing, counseling, and inpatient Read more…
Providing sexual health care, support in Peru Posted on Sep 23, 2021 In just eight minutes, everything came crashing down. As Carlos* stared at the HIV test, he wondered what he would do. How he would work. How he would eat. How he would stay alive. The 39-year-old was already Read more…
PIH’s care for Hassan, an MDR-TB patient, creates a national impact Posted on July 23, 2021 From the time he was admitted to Lakka Government Hospital, Sierra Leone’s only dedicated tuberculosis facility, staff knew that 18-year-old Hassan* was special. “He’s a very brilliant boy,” said Armah Quist, program officer at the Partners Read more…
Integrating care for HIV and non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and mental illness is making treatment more accessible and effective in Neno District Bringing patients for hypertension, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases under one roof for treatment that’s intertwined with HIV care is significantly improving outcomes in rural Malawi, a Read more…
Dr. Sheila Davis has said she never could have foreseen how her career would twist and turn, eventually leading her to where she sits as the chief executive officer of Partners In Health—a position she assumed just over one year ago. Now, Davis is in another unforeseen situation as a Read more…
Globally, AIDS-related deaths among teens are on the rise, even as fewer adults and children are dying of the disease, despite monumental advances in treatment and research over the past decade. UNAIDS estimates that 1.8 million adolescents worldwide are living with HIV. In Latin America and the Caribbean, as many as 74,000 Read more…