PIH provides medical care, accompaniment to the elderly, the chronically ill Posted on February 17, 2021 Every day, Delia Zevallos picks up the phone and dials the same number. After a few rings, a voice answers—it’s her patient, an elderly man who lives alone in Carabayllo, an impoverished community 20 Read more…
Innovative app connects women with care, treatment Posted February 9, 2021 When Vania Lariza Vargas took her mother to the clinic for an appointment, she wasn’t thinking about her own health. It wasn’t until a community health worker approached her and struck up a conversation about the importance of detecting 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…
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…
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…
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