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  Sep 18, 2018

  For His Mother: Sierra Leone PIHer Reflects on Career

  In September 2014, as the largest Ebola outbreak in history was devastating West Africa, Alusine Mark Dumbuya was struggling with an additional, very personal concern in a rural region of Sierra Leone.  Read More

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  Aug 15, 2018

  Building a Passionate Team: HR Manager Tholoana Mohapi Marks a Decade of Hires in Lesotho

  Tholoana Mohapi said that when she was very young, she wanted to be a nurse one day. Instead, her career has led her to more than a decade of hiring nurses and other health professionals, as a leading member of the human resources team for Partners In Health in Lesotho.   Read More

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  Aug 09, 2018

  Mojela Masupha Rides the Extra Mile for PIH

  When Mojela Masupha was a site administrator for two rural health clinics in Lesotho, he needed a way to travel over steep mountain trails and rugged terrain. So, Partners In Health trained Masupha to ride off-road motorcycles—and a new passion was born. Read More

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  Aug 02, 2018

  'That’s Where the Journey Begins': Data Specialist Starts Fellowship in Malawi

  Themba Nyirenda was lying in bed at about 7 a.m. one morning this May, checking email on his laptop, when he got news he’d been hoping for since 2015. He immediately called his girlfriend, despite the early hour. “You cannot believe what I’m looking at,” Nyirenda said.  Read More

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  Jul 30, 2018

  PIH Model Transforms Health Care, Saves Lives in Rwanda, Madagascar

  The movement toward universal health care is growing—no matter the setting.  Two new studies highlight incredible improvements in child and maternal health in Rwanda and Madagascar in recent years, showing repeated success, in very different environments, for Partners In Health’s ground-up model of building health systems and supporting universal care.   Read More

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  Jul 24, 2018

  Treating Mind and Body: Mental Health Care Expanding in Lesotho

  It was a story no doctor wants to tell.  But at Botšabelo Hospital in Maseru, Lesotho, during a recent training on mental health care, a doctor related the story of a man who had successfully completed two grueling years of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB—only to succumb to a different, devastating illness, that far too often goes unseen.    Read More

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  Jun 26, 2018

  Eating Well: Grocery Program Takes Off in the Navajo Nation

  According to local legend, a group of high school students on the edge of the Navajo Nation created the first Piccadilly in late 2017. Half a year later, the homemade snack has spread throughout the largest Indian reservation in America. Cars now queue at roadside stands selling it for $3, highschoolers with driver’s licenses deliver it throughout the rez, and regional variations of the treat continue to pop up. What is Piccadilly? Essentially, a snowcone with sugary toppings. Read More

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  Jun 20, 2018

  Graduates ‘Paving the Way for Global Nursing Leadership’

  Emmanuel Dushimimana said doctors and staff in northern Rwanda were finding it so difficult to keep children with cancer in follow-up care, and to maintain vital connections, that he knew a solution had to be found.  Read More

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  Jun 14, 2018

  Mable's Story: A Tale of Progress, and a Mother's Loss, in Liberia

  Last summer in Maryland County, Liberia—the poorest corner of one of the world’s most impoverished nations—16-year-old Mable Elliot found out she was pregnant. Read More

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  Jun 07, 2018

  New Yorker’s Ariel Levy Reflects on Ophelia Dahl, and Optimism as a “Moral Choice”

  Ariel Levy, a staff writer with The New Yorker, traveled with PIH Co-founder Ophelia Dahl to Sierra Leone last October. She reflects on her experience reporting and writing her profile of Dahl, and the importance of universal health care. Read More