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…
Providing sexual health care, support in Peru Posted on Sep 23, 2021 In just eight minutes, everything came crashing down. As Carlos* stared at the HIV test, he wondered what he would do. How he would work. How he would eat. How he would stay alive. The 39-year-old was already 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…
Socios En Salud celebrates quarter century of lifesaving care, systemic change Posted on Jul 6, 2021 A quarter of a century ago, in the hillside communities of Carabayllo, Partners In Health dared to pursue a simple yet radical idea: no patient should die because a disease was considered “too expensive” Read more…
Patient faced pandemic, chronic disease, food and housing insecurity Posted on Jun 28, 2021 For weeks, Félix Melgar could do nothing but wait, feeling trapped in his modest home in Carabayllo. COVID-19 wasn’t the only challenge he was up against. There was the epilepsy. The empty pill bottles. The seizures. Read more…
