Clinical training, community-based care, and connecting patients with specialized services central to decade’s work Posted on Aug 6, 2021 A decade ago, a team of clinicians and health advocates in rural Chiapas united under a simple yet radical vision: every person has a right to health. The team—Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, Read more…
Staff provide continuous care through unrest, hurricanes, COVID-19 Posted on Jul 16, 2021 More than a week after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and the wounding of First Lady Martine Moïse, Zanmi Lasante facilities remain open, as they have through years of political and civil unrest, devastating hurricanes, and Read more…
Comprehensive investments from PIH mean higher-quality care for rural patients Posted on July 2, 2021 This April, Elizabeth Momoh delivered her fifth child at Sewafe Community Health Center in Kono District, Sierra Leone. “Ah so gladi,” she said in Krio, during her last prenatal appointment before her due date. “I’m Read more…
First-year nurse with PIH in Mexico reflects on nursing, decolonization Posted on June 27, 2021 By Andi Mar Valadez Castañeda, first-year nurse at Compañeros En Salud Caregiving—the essence of the nursing profession—has been a task assigned to women for millennia, based on traditional gender roles that saw women taking care Read more…
Co-op helps mothers earn income, keep families healthy Posted on May 24, 2021 In a sunlit room in Carabayllo, a woman grasps a strand of yarn and slips one of her needles through it. Between the needles is more than the tiny sweater she’s knitting. Wound up in the yarn Read more…
At Casa Materna, midwives provide holistic care for mothers Posted on May 24, 2021 In Mexico, there are 15,000 traditional midwives, 100 professional midwives and 16,684 graduates in Nursing and Obstetrics, according to 2016 data from the Institute of Public Health. But for many, midwifery is more than just a job. For Read more…
Koidu Government Hospital’s adolescent and youth-friendly services clinic provides care beyond medical for young adults in Sierra Leone Posted on May 17, 2021 Phebian Sondufu-Sowa’s shift at Koidu Government Hospital (KGH)—the only hospital in Kono District, Sierra Leone—technically ends at five o’clock. But on any given day, at any given Read more…
Partners In Health, government leaders lay first bricks for state-of-the-art teaching hospital designed to provide a new level of care for Sierra Leonean women and families Posted on May 17, 2021 Partners In Health’s mission to radically reduce global maternal mortality has entered a new chapter with the groundbreaking of the Maternal Center Read more…
New facility will be hub for expanded care, specialized services, and clinical training Posted April 23, 2021 The morning of April 23 marked a turning point for women and their families in Kono District, Sierra Leone, as Partners In Health (PIH) and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health & Sanitation officially broke Read more…
On International Women’s Day, PIH CEO Dr. Sheila Davis and nurse midwife Isata Dumbuya, women’s and children’s health lead for PIH Sierra Leone, celebrate PIH’s commitment to women’s rights and health Posted March 8, 2021 On International Women’s Day, Partners In Health CEO Dr. Sheila Davis and Isata Dumbuya, nurse midwife and reproductive, maternal, Read more…