Media Coverage
A Year On The Front Lines In Haiti
PIH’s Dr. David Walton has spent much of the past year on the front lines in Haiti treating earthquake victims and working to stem the cholera epidemic. He's now involved in the building of a new hospital. He talks to NPR's Michele Norris about his work. Read More
The Emily Rooney Show: Haiti Earthquake Anniversary
Dr. Evan Lyon – who has in Haiti with Partners for 13 years – arrived on the 4th day after the earthquake and worked in the capital for the next seven months. He says perhaps the most dramatic thing he’s seen since the earthquake is the remarkably little change… Some basic provisions are provided – but many needs remain unmet and the refugee communities look like they are becoming nearly permanent. Dr. Lyon, you say “by necessity (people) are settling in for a long haul.” Read More
Update: Restoring the Soul; Satisfying Hunger Around the World
The name “Two Degrees,” represents the mission of the business and the short distance that separates us from a child dying of hunger. The company donates a nutrition pack to a hungry child for every nutrition bar sold. The children of Malawi are the first recipients of Two Degrees. The company is working with Valid Nutrition and Partners In Health to fulfill its heroic mission. Read More
Haiti Has Seen Some Progress Since Earthquake, Relief Workers Say
No one expected Haiti's problems to be solved just one year after a monster earthquake hit the island on January 12, 2010, leveling much of the impoverished nation's capital, Port-au-Prince, and killing more than 250,000. While progress on the island is slow, representatives from World Food Programme and Partners In Health say they are seeing encouraging signs in Haiti. Read More
One Year On, Haiti’s Post-Earthquake Landscape is Grim
For further perspective on what’s been done by two large health-focused humanitarian organizations working in the country, see the one-year report by Partners In Health and Doctors Without Borders. Read More
Helping Haiti One Year Later
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Haiti. Millions more are still being harshly affected by lack of water, shelter and food. Worthy groups which have been on the ground since before last year's crisis struck include Partners In Health, operating in the country since 1987 originally to deliver health care to the residents of Haiti's mountainous Central Plateau region. Read More
Rebuilding Haiti By Empowering Its Residents
The tragic earthquake and its aftermath have undoubtedly had a devastating effect on Haiti and its people. But there are success stories. "Very few of us who know Haiti haven't fallen in love with the spirit of the Haitian people," said Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer of Partners In Health. Read More
What Haiti needs most, one year post-quake
Partners In Health, led by Paul Farmer – a leader in sustainable development and the UN Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti – is teaming up with the global health care company Abbott for an ambitious $6.5 million partnership. Read More
Haiti in Recovery—Two Doctors Make a Difference
Haiti is a second home to Dr. Evan Lyon, physician with Partners in Health, and as he drove through the streets of Port-au-Prince a few days after the tremendous earthquake in January of 2010, this is what he wrote to his associates from the scene: “people cooking, talking, some singing and crying.” Read More
Tè Tremblé: Remembering the Earthquake in Haiti
We go back to January 12, 2010, and to the aftermath of the earthquake – what Haitians call Tè Tremblé, the earth trembles. One year later, the words of Dr. Evan Lyon, a physician with Partners In Health, are agonizingly true: Haiti is still in pain. Read More
A year later: work continues, expands in Cange, Haiti
Partners In Health’s 100-bed hospital in Cange was one of the best left standing after the earthquake, and its capacity doubled overnight as the village's church became a triage center. “We had patients filling the entire sanctuary and upper balcony,” Morse said. “It was a very beautiful use of the church building. It seemed like what we should have used it for.” An international medical mission, Partners in Health, traces its roots to Cange through its founder, Paul Farmer. Read More
One year later, relief work continues
“On the one hand, there’s enormous disappointment with the overall global response, and that includes the response from inside Haiti from the Haitian government,” said Darthmouth College President Jim Yong Kim. “The other part of the story is a very remarkable effort on the part of the entire Dartmouth community.” Read More
Area volunteers tell of horrors still plaguing Haiti
During a news conference Tuesday, Dr. David Walton, deputy chief of Mission to Haiti for Partners In Health, said the numbers of those dead from cholera are far greater than those being reported by the Haitian Ministry of Health. Read More
Berkshire volunteers reflect on road ahead
Three days after Haiti’s earthquake, Mark Hyman and his wife Pier Boutin, also a physician, were on the ground with an emergency medical crew organized by Partners In Health co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. Read More
Moved by parents’ death in quake, Montrealer reached out to help
Her parents, George and Merille Anglade, became the first Canadians confirmed killed in the blurry aftermath of Jan. 12, 2010. Back in Montreal, Ms. Anglade cobbled together a board that includes everyone from Paul Farmer, the U.S. doctor who founded Partners In Health to Régine Chassagne, the Montreal singer from Arcade Fire whose parents emigrated from Haiti during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. The organization is now seeking to raise $2-million to work with 500 families in the village of Thomonde in Haiti’s central plateau. Read More
Charity Navigator Roundtable Discussion
A year after Haiti was hit by a 7.0 earthquake, Charity Navigator led a roundtable discussion among several leaders of charities that provided aid in the wake of the disaster, including Ophelia Dahl, executive director of Partners In Health. Read More
Haiti - Hell to Hope
RTÉ Western Editor Jim Fahy visits the shattered country a year after the devastating earthquake which killed over a quarter of a million people and left another million homeless. The piece follows three stories, that of PIH’s Dr Louise Ivers, Gena Heraty, and Fr Rick Frechette. Read More
Only new, fair voting can help Haiti now
It is bad enough that, by delaying reconstruction aid to Haiti, the United States has failed to give adequate assistance to our neighbor, which was struck by a devastating earthquake a year ago today. Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, ranking member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, criticized the exclusions and warned of potential chaos. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, expressed his concern that "all Haitian people and parties be allowed to participate." Read More
Haiti’s Top 5 Priorities One Year Later: Cause for Hope
Organizations like Partners In Health have been pushing vigorously for the widespread distribution of oral cholera vaccines and antibiotic therapies, standard interventions, which could help slow, if not stop the spread of the disease. But the prevailing belief is that it would be too difficult to inoculate enough of the population, since the vaccine requires two courses – something PIH’s chief medical officer argues the organization has disproven in the past. Read More
Canadian celebs continue Haiti appeals, aid efforts
For several years, Arcade Fire's Win Butler and wife Régine Chassagne have supported an on-the-ground effort in Haiti through Partners In Health, an organization with more than 20 years' experience delivering services that combine medical care with education and training about sanitation, water and agriculture in countries like Haiti, Mexico and Peru. Read More
