Vocational Program Empowers Teens Living with HIV In Malawi, teen-friendly services address wealth inequality, creating pathways to better health outcomes. Posted August 28, 2024 Patrick Francis, a 19-year-old ASPIRE Project participant trained in tailoring, uses his sewing skills to make a living and serve his community. Photo by Madock Masina Read more…
Staff Wellness Program Helps Care for the Caregivers Eddy Eustache was the first psychologist hired in Haiti. Now, he co-leads PIH’s global staff wellness program. Posted July 15, 2024 Père Eddy provides mental health training for PIH colleagues in Liberia as part of the organization’s global mental health team. Photo Read more…
Improved care, training, systems save more lives every year Posted on Jan 11, 2024 With her left hand on an expectant mother’s belly, Sister Patricia Efe Azikiwe raises her right hand, wiggles her fingers, and explains how to examine the patient’s abdomen. With the fingertips, not the palm, she emphasizes. Read more…
New director boosts training, envisions residency program to improve cancer diagnoses, treatment Posted on February 15, 2023 In November, when Dr. Marie Djenane José arrived for her first day on the job as director of the pathology lab at Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM), she was surprised to find a Read more…
The achievement will strengthen the country’s mental health care resources, staff Posted on November 3, 2022 The Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital (SLPTH) has received a formal 5-year accreditation for the first-ever psychiatry residency program in the country. With this accreditation, Sierra Leone will be able to train its own Read more…
Alumni reflect on Global Nurse Executive Fellowship Posted on May 9, 2022 Growing up in rural Rwanda, Florence Musabyemariya used to get sick as a child and “really feared infection.” It was always nurses, she says, who calmed her and helped her feel safe to continue her treatments and check-ups, Read more…
Ten nurse leaders accepted to yearlong leadership program Posted on May 9, 2022 Gladys Mtalimanja Banda was familiar with health care long before she became a nurse midwife. She had malaria as a child and the hospital quickly became her second home. Among her frequent visits, one trip in particular stands out. Read more…
PIH expands support to remote community health centers Posted on May 9, 2022 After centuries of extraction by foreign powers, Sierra Leone remains resource-rich but cash-poor, with little to spend on its population’s health. This injustice takes an extreme, visceral form in Kono District, where West Africa’s largest diamond mine Read more…
Nurse training program shares expertise in cancer care through cross-site collaboration Posted on Nov 27, 2021 In 2014, when the Ebola outbreak was declared in Liberia and other West African countries, people were warned that the disease was devouring everything in its path. For many, it seemed like madness to stand against such a lethal Read more…
Faster registration and better access to medical records are streamlining care at the rural hospital, and are hallmarks of PIH’s multi-country effort to improve how health data is collected, stored and used.