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Next stop: Lesotho – PIH launches new project in southern Africa
Barely a year after establishing our first project on the African continent in Rwanda, Partners In Health has started its second in Lesotho. In late June, PIH trained 75 village health workers to begin providing HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the first of nine rural health centers serving more than 300,000 people where PIH plans to be operating by 2008. [Posted July 2006]

Into Africa – Haitian doctor Jonas Rigodon
brings his skills and the PIH/ZL model to Lesotho
Dr. Jonas Rigodon, a Haitian physician who has been working with PIH/ZL since 2002, is moving to Lesotho to share his expertise in providing health care for the poor in a country currently experiencing one of the world's worst HIV epidemics. [Posted July 2006]