By Bonnie Tsui in Real Simple Magazine

In the wake of the devastating 2010 earthquake, PIH treated thousands of victims. Its doctors also treated 75,000 patients sickened by the cholera epidemic less than a year later. "I've seen cholera take a child's life in one day," says Louise Ivers, M.D., PIH's senior health and policy adviser.

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