In Lima, transgender women face daily threat of discrimination, violence Posted on February 15, 2023 Content warning: This story relates to suicide. As the clock struck midnight, Brenda Mijahuanca ate 12 grapes while sitting under the table, celebrating the new year and reflecting on her resolutions—a tradition in Spain and Read more…
PIH improves access to chronic disease care Posted on December 21, 2022 It started with thirst. Then came cramps. Then, hallucinations. That’s when Meysi Mendoza knew something was wrong. The 53-year-old resident of Carabayllo, a district in northern Lima, had been feeling fine until then, selling fish, plantains, and aguaje, Read more…
PIH connects patients with medical care, social support Posted on October 21, 2022 Marí Romero Sánchez first felt the lump while she was changing clothes. It was in her right breast—not painful, but hard and growing. Sánchez, 50, had already faced a string of health scares over the past year, Read more…
CASITA program helps children with developmental delays Posted on Aug 23, 2022 Hugs and kisses weren’t always part of Carmen Dávalos’ daily routine with her daughter. But now, the 35-year-old mother takes every opportunity she can to shower her daughter, Yeretzy, with affection. No one had ever taught Dávalos, who Read more…
Renewable energy ensures reliable power for lifesaving care in remote regions Posted on June 14, 2022 When the power goes out in a hospital, the lights aren’t the only thing that could shut off. A power outage could disrupt surgeries and disable lifesaving medical equipment, including oxygen concentrators keeping patients Read more…
New PIH-led initiative offers essential medical treatment, ‘Oxygen is life’ Posted on April 4, 2022 Dr. Paul Sonenthal will never forget the sounds that erupted in the ward day after day: patients suddenly gasping for breath, almost in unison. This painful soundtrack stemmed from oxygen deprivation. At the small, regional Read more…
Partners In Health provides medical care, social support Posted on Mar 24, 2022 Each morning, Flormila Antaurco emptied dozens of pills from carefully labeled bottles in her home in Carabayllo, Peru. The first 11 were prescribed for her. The others, for her children. “It was painful to watch,” she recalls. Read more…
PIH and partners install oxygen plant in Trujillo Posted on Jan 27, 2022 Thousands of vulnerable patients are about to breathe easier, thanks to a new oxygen plant installed by Socios En Salud and partners earlier this month. More than 36,000 people requiring medical oxygen in the La Libertad region Read more…
Oxygen will save lives in country with highest COVID-19 deaths per capita Posted on Nov 9, 2021 As COVID-19 continues to devastate communities across Peru, Socios En Salud—as Partners In Health is known locally—has delivered more than 120 oxygen concentrators and 90 oxygen tanks to hospitals nationwide, as well as Read more…
Enrollment signals step forward in global effort to end tuberculosis Posted on Oct 25, 2021 In Lima, Peru, Gaby Merlin Contreras, a field technician with Socios En Salud, administers treatment to a patient living with XDR-TB as part of the endTB project in March 2016. (Photo by William Castro Rodríguez / Read more…