PIH working with health officials in Liberia, Sierra Leone as Ebola reemerges in Guinea Posted February 23, 2021 Six years ago, Partners In Health began its work in Liberia and Sierra Leone at the height of West Africa’s historic Ebola outbreak. PIH heeded the call of governments in Liberia and Read more…
A new neonatal ward allowed Naphtal to survive—and give others hope Posted on January 19, 2020 Fourteen weeks ahead of his due date, Naphtal was unexpectedly delivered on a rural farm on the edge of Kono District, Sierra Leone, miles away from any health facility. He and his mother, who Read more…
Explore the patient-centred, innovative design of the future MCOE Posted on January 19, 2020 In 2017, facing Sierra Leone’s long-standing maternal health crisis, Partners In Health leaders sat in a conference room in Kono District—statistically one of the most dangerous places to give birth in the world—and dreamed big: What Read more…
Why PIHer Armah Quist started a feminist organization for young girls, women in Sierra Leone Armah Quist, 30, is a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis program officer at Partners In Health-supported Lakka Government Hospital, Sierra Leone’s only dedicated tuberculosis hospital and the country’s first facility to provide care for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, located on the Read more…
Community health workers, social mobilizers key to education, referrals, and care in pandemic Community health workers (CHWs) prove to be the backbone of any health system, providing a link between households and health facilities. As Partners In Health (PIH) learned during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa from 2014 to 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…
A conversation with bestselling author John Green and PIH leaders Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, making it one of the most dangerous places for women to give birth. The country sees 1,120 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births—a number that far Read more…
PIH program officer reflects on lessons from Ebola and COVID-19, shares story in support of survivors In Sierra Leone—a country unjustly accustomed to infectious disease outbreaks—COVID-19 has impacted one group particularly hard: Ebola survivors. Years after the world’s largest outbreak of the virus, between 2014 and 2016, those who beat Read more…
A key term in maternal health, explained When a woman in labour arrives in a maternity ward with signs of obstetric distress, health care workers face a crucial choice: whether to pursue an emergency c-section. Because as soon as they decide a c-section is needed, it’s a race against the Read more…
PIH co-founder talks about Ebola’s effects in West Africa, offers lessons for COVID-19 times In November 2014, Partners In Health Co-founder and Chief Strategist Dr. Paul Farmer was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, breaking bread with a group of Ebola survivors as the world’s largest epidemic of the virus raged across Read more…
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