Media Coverage
Hands-On Medical Education in Rwanda
Now, the Harvard School of Public Health is working with the Rwandan Ministry of Health to teach a course called Global Health Delivery in the village of Rwinkwavu twice a year. “Rwanda is honestly starting to change the face of global health,” said Dr. Paul Farmer, one of the founders of Partners In Health , a nongovernmental organization that works in Rwanda and other poor countries. Read More
Saving mothers: Concord native works to cut maternal mortality in Africa
The pregnant women who till the soil and plant the seeds will not be there to gather the harvest. The small garden will feed other women like themselves later, women who stay at the house in Nohana, Lesotho, for two or three weeks, waiting to give birth. Halfway around the world, in an office in Boston, a Concord High School graduate works to support the waiting-in house for expectant mothers, and other missions to improve health services in Lesotho. Read More
Why Nurses Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health
At Partners In Health (PIH) we are working with partner organizations and national Ministries of Health to strengthen nursing efforts and raise nursing visibility across the board. We have an incredibly strong, hard-working, and inspiring group of nurses who serve as colleagues and teachers in their home countries, as well as throughout the global community. Read More
Hope for Haitian recovery
The Boston-based Partners in Health has funded a new hospital in Mirebalais in the Central Plateau, scheduled to open in July. Here are open-air rooms, with the design and construction of a First-World hospital. The waiting area is filled with pews from St. Cecilia’s Church in Boston. Read More
Jim Yong Kim named World Bank president
The World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College’s president, as its new chief on Monday after an unprecedented competition against nominees from Nigeria and Colombia. President Obama reached outside the worlds of finance and government in nominating Kim, whose career was built around one of the more intractable problems in development — how to deliver expensive HIV and tuberculosis medicines to poor or remote parts of the world. Read More
Haiti Health Workers to Give Cholera Vaccine
Jonathan Lascher, Haiti program manager for the Boston-based Partners In Health, said more than 200 trained health workers will start administering the oral vaccine on Sunday to almost 50,000 people outside the western port city of Saint Marc. Read More
Malawi’s First Female President: A Quiet and Earth Shaking Victory
Partners In Health serves the public sector in the rural district of Neno the kind of place oft forgotten by leaders everywhere. Yet Neno, and many other forgotten places, are squarely on President Banda's radar. Read More
Vaccinations Begin in a Cholera-Ravaged Haiti
A year and a half after cholera first struck Haiti, a tiny portion of the population on Thursday began getting vaccinated against the waterborne disease that has infected more than 530,000 Haitians and killed more than 7,040. The organizers — Partners In Health and Gheskio, which also collaborate on H.I.V. and AIDS care — had hoped to beat the spring rains that spread the cholera germ. Read More
Jim Kim’s humility would serve World Bank well
President Obama’s nomination of Jim Yong Kim to be president of the World Bank is a powerful choice for an institution charged with addressing some of the world’s toughest challenges. Chief among these is to help developing economies achieve sustained growth by ensuring that its benefits are broadly shared. Read More
Vaccination Against Cholera Finally Begins In Haiti
Today, 50,000 people living in the slums of Port-au-Prince will start to get immunized against the disease. This weekend, another 50,000 villagers in the low rice-growing areas of the Artibonite River valley will get their first doses of an oral cholera vaccine. Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners In Health, which is organizing the rural arm of the project, says he's already working on that more ambitious goal. "What I would hope for Haiti and for the Congo and other places with cholera." Read More
The Haiti-Boston connection: Union workers from Massachusetts help build a new teaching hospital
Jim Ansara, the founder of Shawmut Design & Construction in Boston, is working as the director of construction for Partners In Health. A staunchly pro-union employer, Ansara is using his connections back home to recruit dozens of skilled volunteers from Boston-area building trades unions to help a large local workforce of local Haitians. Read More
Haitian cholera epidemic in wake of earthquake devastation
Just months after a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, an outbreak of Cholera followed, claiming the lives of thousands. Jon Lascher from Partners In Health, former AP correspondent Jonathan Katz, and Haitian American blogger Alice Backer, join Melissa Harris-Perry in discussing the source of the epidemic and the potential dangers brought by the upcoming rainy season in Haiti. Read More
Three Reasons Why the World Needs Dr. Jim Kim at the World Bank
As a co-founder of Partners In Health, he has pioneered efforts to bring high quality health care to the poor and to work with countries to build their capacity to deliver these services. Read More
Cholera cases on the rise in Haiti, U.N. says
The Boston-based group Partners In Health said it saw the number of cholera cases nearly triple from almost 19,000 in April 2011 to more than 50,000 two months later. Read More
Pediatric cancer on the rise in Rwanda
“The treatment usually requires the patient to come back regularly for follow-up,” explained Dr. Neo Tapela working with Partners In Health. “If they are coming from halfway across the country, it will be a big problem if the person cannot make it.” Read More
Global Health Expert Chosen As World Bank Nominee
In a telephone interview from Rwanda, Farmer said Kim has a "big picture" understanding of the connections between health, poverty and development around the world. "What are the larger forces that make people sick, or keep them from being in ill health?" Farmer asked. "These have been the very questions that have obsessed Jim his entire adult life." Read More
No One Should Die of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century
There was a moment of hope at the turn of the century. A group of non-governmental organizations and global health advocates -- most notably Drs. Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim and our team at Partners In Health as well as colleagues from Médecins Sans Frontières and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control -- proved that drug-resistant TB could be treated in poor countries. Read More
Jim Yong Kim: President Obama’s groundbreaking choice for World Bank president
With another pioneering physician-anthropologist, Dr. Paul Farmer, Kim established an organization dedicated to treating poor people in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda and beyond. The founding principle of Partners In Health was that everyone is entitled to first-class health care, no matter where they live or how poor they are. Read More
Fellow Partners in Health co-founder praises Jim Yong Kim nomination
When Dr. Jim Yong Kim was a young medical student at Harvard, he joined with Dr. Paul Farmer and colleagues working in a community clinic in Haiti. The effort would grow into Partners in Health, an international nonprofit focused on improving the health of the poor. Read More
The Five-Point Plan of Jim Kim, Obama’s Choice for World Bank Chief
If you want to know where Kim plans to lead the World Bank, you could do worse than check out the Partners In Health plan and listen to its interpretation by Ophelia Dahl, the organization’s executive director and a co-founder. Read More
