PIH integrates psychological first aid into pandemic response Posted on Oct 8, 2021 Tuberculosis, one of the world’s most deadly diseases, kills nearly 4,000 people per day and has a daunting list of physical symptoms—coughing, chills, weight loss, night sweats. But lesser known are its effects on mental health. Studies have shown that tuberculosis Read more…
Team helps patients manage depression through ongoing care, support Posted on Sep 7, 2021 Content warning: This story contains brief, general mention of suicidal ideation. The taxis are gone, again. But it isn’t the first time that Gábriel* has shown up to an empty lot. As one of the dozens Read more…
PIH supporting country’s first mental health unit for children and adolescents Posted on Aug 27, 2021 On a cloudy July morning on the lush green outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Dr. Elizabeth Allieu stands in front of a classroom of preteen and teen girls, encouragingly telling them that there are no wrong answers to the question Read more…
Panel explores mental health impact of racism amid COVID-19 Posted on June 1, 2021 Racial violence, police brutality, and other forms of racism don’t just affect the physical safety of Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous people—racism also affects mental health. Yet, for many people of colour, mental health care remains costly, hard to access, Read more…
The podcast tells the story of Sierra Leone’s only psychiatric teaching hospital and inspires a conversation about mental health—in the past, present and future. How is mental health connected to history? And what can one hospital teach us about it? In Unchain, a new podcast miniseries from Partners In Health, doctors, patients and historians in Read more…
App helps screen, increase access to specialists during pandemic Maritza Sáenz has been a singer for years; but when her mother died of a lung disease, the music lost its meaning. It was a loss that the resident of Callao, Peru—a rural community outside of the capital of Lima—describes as Read more…
PIH Liberia psychosocial worker Helena Wesley is on a mission to help people who are “lost” and on the streets in her native Maryland County People struggling with mental health conditions who have stopped receiving treatment or taking medication—and as a result have seen their conditions worsen and may be Read more…
Emergency response to the devastating 2010 earthquake has grown into a system of mental health care in Haiti that now serves thousands of patients and has become a model for overcoming systemic and structural challenges Tatiana Therosme gathered herself for a moment before talking about a young woman, born with HIV, who battled Read more…
Caring for Ourselves, and Each Other, on World Mental Health Day 2020 Dr. Giuseppe (Bepi) Raviola, director of mental health at Partners In Health, shares below how PIH has invested in and incorporated mental health into COVID-19 care around the world, and reflects on the importance of self-care during moments of Read more…
Faster registration and better access to medical records are streamlining care at the rural hospital, and are hallmarks of PIH’s multi-country effort to improve how health data is collected, stored and used.