World TB Day: Mots’elisi’s Story Posted March 24, 2024. Normally based in Saskatoon, PIH Canada Board member Dr. Ryan Meili is a family physician and lifelong advocate for healthy public policy with a focus on health equity. In the article series “A View from Lesotho,” Dr. Meili will be sharing Read more…
A View from Lesotho: Syndemicity Part 2 Posted March 6, 2024. Normally based in Saskatoon, PIH Canada Board member Dr. Ryan Meili is a family physician and lifelong advocate for healthy public policy with a focus on health equity. In the article series “A View from Lesotho,” Dr. Meili will Read more…
A View from Lesotho: Syndemicity Part 1 Posted February 21, 2024. Normally based in Saskatoon, PIH Canada Board member Dr. Ryan Meili is a family physician and lifelong advocate for healthy public policy with a focus on health equity. In the article series “A View from Lesotho,” Dr. Meili will Read more…
Joins John Green in asking Johnson & Johnson to make details of Stop TB deal public Posted on July 13, 2023 As an organization that believes passionately in bringing the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them, PIH is cautiously optimistic after hearing today that Read more…
Q&A with Dr. Carole Mitnick, PIH’s co-principal investigator of endTB project Tuberculosis is the most deadly infectious disease, killing more than 1.4 million people globally, most of them in resource-poor countries. Some forms of the disease are resistant to treatment and therefore can’t be cured using standard drugs. These multidrug Read more…
PIH Kazakhstan Country Director Dr. Yerkebulan Algozhin is among staff who have recovered from COVID-19 this year, and said facing a pandemic while continuing tuberculosis care has brought his team closer together – as they now prepare for a second wave of the novel virus. When Dr. Yerkebulan Algozhin heard the Read more…
Despite Kazakhstan’s nationwide lockdown that began in March to contain COVID-19, Partners In Health clinicians have continued to examine and provide treatment—in person and online—for tuberculosis patients enrolled in a groundbreaking clinical trial. Clinicians have had to communicate regularly with police to cross checkpoints and have used their own vehicles Read more…
For more than two decades, Partners In Health has treated and prevented tuberculosis (TB) and its severe, drug-resistant variants in some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world. Our community-based approach to care has resulted in some of the highest cure rates and lowest treatment default rates ever recorded. Read more…
Dr. KJ Seung, who has been fighting tuberculosis with Partners In Health since 2001, urged the World Health Organization and national governments to quickly implement new treatment plans for the deadly infectious disease, in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Lancet Global Health and co-authored by Dr. Cathy Hewison of Read more…
Karim Llaro is a nurse who has worked with Socios En Salud, as Partners In Health is known in Peru, for more than 20 years. She began in the late 1990s as a field nurse, administering tuberculosis treatments to patients in their homes. She then became the TB program coordinator Read more…