The authors of this blog are Prativa Baral, Lissa Murseli, and Zahraa Saab, who are dedicated members of the Partners In Health Canada Spark (PIHC Spark) education group. PIHC Spark is a self-organizing collective of volunteers from across Canada building a movement for global health equity and social justice. PIH Read more…
Photo by Jon Lascher / Partners In Health Fatu Kamara receives the first of two doses of oral cholera vaccine in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The teams wound down dirt paths, high-stepped through muddy slums, and climbed stairs cemented into lush hillsides. Never mind the lack of road signs and house Read more…
Michael G. Seamans for Partners In Health Community Health Worker Manager Fodei Daboh visits a patient’s home during the Ebola epidemicin Sierra Leone in December 2014. One Stone’s response wasn’t exactly a surprise. In up-country Sierra Leone, in the central chiefdoms of Kono District, the man with the rapper-inspired nickname Read more…
Photo by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer (center) and Strategic Adviser Dr. Bailor Barrie (left) speak withEbola survivors in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Oct. 8, 2014. We need to provide better care for Ebola patients. That is the main point that physician-anthropologist Gene Read more…
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Partners In Health Canada is proud to support the live-saving work being done in West Africa, where PIH and our partners are working to get ahead of the Ebola outbreak. The London Review of Books published an essay by PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer in which he reflects on a Read more…