News and Stories
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Wall Street Journal: West Africa, PIH Resolve to Build Health Systems
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the challenges facing Liberia and Sierra Leone’s Ebola-wracked health care systems, and Partners In Health’s efforts to help in each country:
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Adama Nylenkeh: Recent Graduate, Rising Star
Adama Nylenkeh began her professional life as a volunteer ambulance nurse in Sierra Leone in late 2014. The 24-year-old Sierra Leonean quickly developed a reputation for grit, humility, and creativity and in February, Partners In Health (PIH) hired her as a program coordinator. Then in May, just four months later, she became a program officer. The promotion made her career trajectory one of the steepest at PIH, and it was hardly a fluke.
June 4, 2015
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Navajo Nation Hosts Pioneering Cancer Talks
Of the dozens of cancer symposia held around the world in April, none resembled The Navajo Cancer Survivorship Conference, a gathering of some 70 doctors, patients, traditional healers, nurses, community health workers, and residents at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, NM, on April 16. The goal of the conference wasn’t to tout cutting-edge advances or experimental drugs, as so many do. It was to figure out how existing cancer care can better serve patients in and around the Navajo Nation, a 27,000-square-mile tribal area in the Southwest.
June 3, 2015
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Training in Rwanda Focuses on Newborn Care
Doctors and nurses from across Rwanda gathered at Rwinkwavu District Hospital this spring, aiming to walk away with an understanding of the country’s new neonatal care package.
June 2, 2015
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Celebrating a Safe Birth in Lesotho
Finding Tebello Malapane wasn’t easy. To begin, Village Health Worker Manepile Mothae had to walk three hours over the winding, mountainous terrain of Lesotho. She scrambled across loose rock, over boulders and through creeks. It was summer, and the sun blazed down. At the end of her journey to Monyameng Village was a pregnant woman who needed her help. Tebello was 26 years old and rendered immobile by a degenerative disease, possibly spina bifida.
June 2, 2015
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Conjoined Twin Sisters Successfully Separated in Haiti
On Friday, May 22, history was made at University Hospital (HUM) in Mirebalais, Haiti. Just two days before they turned six months, Marian and Michelle Bernard were successfully separated following a seven-hour-long procedure that required the collaboration of HUM staff with a team of national and international surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other specialists. They are now reunited with their healthy triplet sister, Tamar.
May 29, 2015
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New Maternity Ward Ensures Safe Delivery
When 35-year-old Thoko* was pregnant with her fourth child, she and her sister walked to Malawi’s Neno District Hospital to make sure she could deliver her baby safely. The trip took three-and-a-half hours from her home in Makupe Village. Thoko stayed in the hospital’s new maternity ward for a week before giving birth to a son named Joseph earlier this month. The antenatal care she received prior to delivery helped ensure she and her baby are healthy and thriving.
May 28, 2015
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Conjoined Twins Separated in Haiti
Twin sisters are stable and recovering at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti.
May 27, 2015
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Dr. Paul Farmer: No Health, No Justice: Recent Lessons From West Africa
In March 2015, Partners In Health Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer delivered the 2015 Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice at Yale Law School. Gruber Distinguished Lectures are public addresses featuring path breakers in the fields of global justice and women’s rights.
May 22, 2015
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Expanding New Drugs for TB (endTB)
endTB is an innovative project using new TB drugs implemented by the international organizations Partners In Health (PIH), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Interactive Research and Development (IRD), and funded by UNITAID with a four-year, 60.4 million USD grant. This poject aims to produce concrete results in the form of more effective and better-tolerated regimens for MDR-TB that will in turn lead to greater access.
May 20, 2015