In a sunlit room, a mother shows her daughter a small pink bead, holding it up in one hand and grasping a plastic jar full of beads in the other. The blue and green mat beneath them is sprinkled with pieces of all colors and shapes. Her daughter, a toddler, Read more…
A newly published study with several Partners In Health co-authors showed strong results for using new drugs and shorter treatment regimens to fight severe tuberculosis (TB), adding to the case for faster rollout of the drugs and creating data that already has influenced World Health Organization treatment guidelines, a lead PIH researcher 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…
From mobile clinics to chatbots, Partners In Health is bringing technologies old and new to the fight against COVID-19 in Peru – one of the hardest hit countries in South America, despite its early success in curtailing the virus. Known locally as Socios En Salud, PIH has focused its work Read more…
Partners In Health staff often talk about the five “S’s” essential to quality health care: staff, stuff, space, systems, and social support. Each piece is equally important in building a strong public health system and in caring for patients—not just their current illness or chronic condition, but their ability to Read more…
Partners In Health employs or supports nearly 18,000 staff members in 11 countries around the world. More than 60 percent of those invaluable staffers are women, filling vital roles at all levels of the organization. In honour of International Women’s Day, which is celebrated March 8 and this year has a theme of Each Read more…
Karim Llaro is a nurse who has worked with Socios En Salud, as Partners In Health is known in Peru, for more than 20 years. She began in the late 1990s as a field nurse, administering tuberculosis treatments to patients in their homes. She then became the TB program coordinator Read more…
The imminent launch of two vans equipped with state-of-the-art technology to test for tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) marks a major milestone for PIH’s and Peru’s fight against TB, the leading infectious killer of adults in the world. Within coming weeks, these trucks will enable PIH to carry out Read more…
Isabel from Peru Isabel (pictured at left) and her husband, Angel, live on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, and walk through the city streets selling snacks and candies to earn a small income. When Isabel visited a PIH clinic and found out she was pregnant with her first child, she Read more…
It took four strong, kind-hearted volunteers nearly two hours to carry Melquiades Huauya Ore, lying waiflike in a bedsheet, from his home in El Agustino neighborhood in the hills of Lima, Peru, down a series of steep stairs to the closest health center. They did this every day, for several Read more…
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