Spend a day at the Partners In Health-supported J.J. Dossen Hospital in Harper, Liberia—or in the homes and communities the hospital serves—and you’ll find mothers and babies enrolled in a vital program called kangaroo mother care (KMC). Mothers like 22-year-old Cecile Johnson, and babies like her 10-week-old daughter, Sheba Nyemade. Read more…
Most mornings on his way to work in Harper, Liberia, Dr. Jacquelin Pierre says he is met with a beautiful sight. As he climbs the hill above the ocean, sunlight glinting off the waves, a group of runners wearing brightly coloured workout gear greets him. “Hey Doc,” they yell out, smiling Read more…
It has been five years since I went to Liberia and Sierra Leone to launch Partners In Health’s Ebola response. The memories from that first trip are very vivid. I remember sitting on empty planes arriving to airports, where most people were trying to leave the countries. I remember repeated Read more…
Three years ago, Winston Appleton had all but given up on life. He slept rough in the shadow of decaying mansions in Harper, Liberia. He lived on a diet of mud and “Italian white”—the Liberian term for low-grade heroin. He talked to himself, using discarded plastic straws to inhale the Read more…
Dr. Gerald Ekwen is not only the sole general surgeon at Partners In Health-supported J.J. Dossen Hospital in Harper, Liberia. He’s also the only surgeon in all of southeastern Liberia, where in Maryland County alone, PIH serves a population of about 170,000. People also come to J.J. Dossen from neighbouring Read more…
In January 2018, Bobby Togar arrived at Liberia’s national tuberculosis annex in the capital of Monrovia for the second time in his life. The 42-year-old thought he was going there to die. He couldn’t eat, and could barely draw the breath to talk. With a body mass index of 10—half Read more…
Patient Mable Elliot and members of PIH-Liberia pause for a photo in J.J. Dossen Hospital on Feb. 24. Left to right: Executive Director Dr. Patrick Ulysse, Maternal Health Lead Dr. Sarah Anyango, Mable Read more…
Dr. Luma at the TB Annex in 2016. (Photo by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health) Dr. Maxo Luma is a Haitian doctor who was working with Partners In Health in Haiti before coming to Read more…
