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…
In January 2018, Bobby Togar arrived at Liberia’s national tuberculosis annex in the capital of Monrovia for the second time in his life. The 42-year-old thought he was going there to die. He couldn’t eat, and could barely draw the breath to talk. With a body mass index of 10—half Read more…
The imminent launch of two vans equipped with state-of-the-art technology to test for tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) marks a major milestone for PIH’s and Peru’s fight against TB, the leading infectious killer of adults in the world. Within coming weeks, these trucks will enable PIH to carry out Read more…
Millions of people — many of them young and most of them poor — will die around the world this year from diseases and conditions for which safe, effective and affordable treatments exist. These are what our patients and colleagues in Haiti call “stupid deaths” – unjust deaths that could Read more…
Dr. Luma at the TB Annex in 2016. (Photo by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health) Dr. Maxo Luma is a Haitian doctor who was working with Partners In Health in Haiti before coming to Canada in 2007 to continue his education. Dr. Luma is currently the TB Program Read more…
Every three months or so, Atlehang Seisa saddles up. The lead nurse at Mapheleng Health Center in a bucolic corner of Lesotho, Seisa joins a small team of doctors on quarterly trips by horseback, to villages over the hills. The team stays at the remote villages for a week at Read more…
Left to right, patients Monitha Johnson, Monimon Gaye, and Samuel Morris sit outside the Tuberculosis Annex in Monrovia, Liberia, in November 2016, during their treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Usually poor. Generally living in the slums or countryside. Busy just trying to stay alive. People who suffer tuberculosis struggle to be seen, Read more…
It took four strong, kind-hearted volunteers nearly two hours to carry Melquiades Huauya Ore, lying waiflike in a bedsheet, from his home in El Agustino neighborhood in the hills of Lima, Peru, down a series of steep stairs to the closest health center. They did this every day, for several Read more…
Photo by Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health A view of the PIH-supported J.J. Dossen Hospital campus in Maryland County, Liberia. Last month a 6-year-old girl in remote Maryland County, Liberia, was climbing a tree, as many do during mango season, and fell from a high branch. Her forearm Read more…