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…
The world’s latest Ebola outbreak now has spread for nearly a year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the virus has infected more than 2,500 people and killed nearly 1,700. PIH has sent two of our top Ebola clinicians to work with partners in the conflict-torn region to 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…
Authors of a groundbreaking piece published Thursday in The Lancet Global Health argue that universal health coverage, or UHC, is achievable when local health officials are given the proper tools to estimate their communities’ burden of disease and then use that information to determine the level of staffing, supplies, and Read more…
Last summer in Maryland County, Liberia—the poorest corner of one of the world’s most impoverished nations—16-year-old Mable Elliot found out she was pregnant. She promptly visited J.J. Dossen Hospital, arguably the best referral hospital for the southeast region of Liberia. It serves half a million people and has been supported 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 Canada in 2007 to continue his education. Dr. Luma is currently the TB Program Read more…
When community health worker (CHW) programs have focused on supporting patients with pre-defined conditions, the impact for these patients can be life-changing. Community-based accompaniment provided by Partners In Health CHWs in Haiti and Peru more than a decade ago, for example, resulted in game-changing outcomes in HIV and TB care Read more…
Photo by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health Dr. Patrick Ulysse (center) and Dr. Regan Marsh (right) visit 21-year-old patient Fadacia Mirriam in her home inPleebo, Liberia. After a decade of working for Partners In Health in Haiti, in early 2015 Dr. Patrick Ulysse moved to Maryland County, Liberia Read more…
Michael G. Seamans for Partners In Health Community Health Worker Manager Fodei Daboh visits a patient’s home during the Ebola epidemicin Sierra Leone in December 2014. One Stone’s response wasn’t exactly a surprise. In up-country Sierra Leone, in the central chiefdoms of Kono District, the man with the rapper-inspired nickname Read more…
Ben Huntley / Partners In Health The newborns rest at Partners In Health-supported J.J. Dossen Hospital in Liberia earlier this month. On a hot and humid Monday in early December, 28-year-old Elizabeth Sieh climbed the handful of stairs to her neighborhood health center in southern Liberia and nurses in the Read more…