EndTB clinical trial shortens treatment period, helps dozens return to normal life Posted March 24, 2021 While pregnant with her second child, Maral Shorayeva began experiencing symptoms that felt like a cold or flu, but when she went to give birth to her daughter, doctors recognized that something was wrong. Read more…
In Mexico, PIH delivers medical care, social support in rural communities Posted March 23, 2021 Abelino Hernández is originally from Guatemala, but he has worked in neighbouring Chiapas, Mexico, for several years to make a living and support his loved ones. He used to work on coffee plantations during Chiapas’ 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…
Lesotho health leaders said the country’s first medical oxygen plant is a landmark for building a stronger health system during COVID-19 and beyond A new oxygen plant installed at Partners In Health supported Botšabelo Hospital is the first such facility in Lesotho and will save lives during the respiratory COVID-19 pandemic 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…
A newly published study with several Partners In Health co-authors showed strong results for using new drugs and shorter treatment regimens to fight severe tuberculosis (TB), adding to the case for faster rollout of the drugs and creating data that already has influenced World Health Organization treatment guidelines, a lead PIH researcher Read more…
Construction has begun on a new emergency care facility that will dramatically improve care and services at Pleebo Health Center in Liberia—so much so, Joseph Lusaka said, that it will feel like a long-held, angry stare finally is looking elsewhere. “We are committed to giving patients the health care they need 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…
When Matankiso and Moholi Moleko learned in 2018 that three members of their family—two of their daughters and one granddaughter—had been diagnosed with a severe form of tuberculosis (TB), they were devastated. They had been down that road too many times before. Over the span of several years in the early 2000s, the parents lost Read more…