PIH repairs oxygen system through BRING O2 partnership Posted on March 21, 2023 Leoncio Carrión was struggling to breathe. The 78-year-old was battling pulmonary fibrosis, his breaths becoming shorter by the day, and had arrived at the hospital gasping for air. Had he come just weeks earlier, he may not Read more…
PIH marks one year since co-founder’s passing with reflections from friends and colleagues Posted on February 21, 2023 As Partners In Health marks one year since the passing of Dr. Paul Farmer, we remember our beloved co-founder’s life and legacy—a force that planted the seeds of our community decades ago Read more…
Medication, social support play key role in recovery Posted on January 25, 2022 Itumeleng Nkhabu, a 48-year-old widow, contracted tuberculosis (TB) in 2003. Then again in 2011. That was not the last time she got sick. In 2018, she was diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a severe form of the Read more…
PIH fights to make treatment for TB, HIV, COVID-19 accessible to all Posted on November 21, 2022 A pill could save the man’s life. But it wasn’t available in Liberia. For months, he had suffered from an unknown disease, without access to a diagnosis or drugs. He had poured his Read more…
Transportation woes, long wait times among reasons driving low uptake Posted on Aug 8, 2022 When Dr. Afom Andom, chief medical officer at Partners In Health in Lesotho, noticed blank spaces and other discrepancies in several district tuberculosis (TB) registries in 2020, he was perplexed. As a former health reform technical advisor Read more…
Social workers connect patients with community organizations providing food, daily essentials, and counselling Posted on June 30, 2022 When a patient delivered her baby in the middle of her tuberculosis (TB) treatment, Gulnara Zhumakairova knew she would need to rally additional resources for the new mother, who was single and Read more…
PIH patient overcomes tuberculosis during pregnancies Posted on March 25, 2022 Tuberculosis (TB) shouldn’t be ignored. This is especially true for pregnant women, as the disease can harm both mother and child. If an expectant mother is not diagnosed and treated in a timely manner, the baby can potentially contract 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…
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…
PIH connects patient with treatment, care, and accompaniment over a months-long journey Posted on Oct 12, 2021 The headaches began in July 2019—but up until then, 15-year-old Emma* Gbonbor was living a healthy, happy life at home in Kono District, Sierra Leone. She and her twin sister, Kadie*, are the second youngest of seven siblings. Entering her second year of high school, Emma chose math Read more…