News and Stories
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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.
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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
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Haitian Nurse Looks Back on Storied Career
Marie Myrka Amazan, 66, is the cross-site coordinator of continuing education for all nurses in the health clinics and hospitals supported by Zanmi Lasante, Partners In Health’s sister organization, in the Central Plateau and lower Artibonite regions of Haiti. She has worked with ZL since 2000, contributing to the growth of services across central Haiti.
May 13, 2015
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Working in Global Health: Nataliya Zemlyanaya
In this series, we ask a seasoned colleague to share professional experiences with those interested in forging a career in global health. For this edition, we asked Nataliya Zemlyanaya, the program manager of our office in Tomsk, Russia.
May 7, 2015
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Celebrating International Nurses Week 2015
May 6-12, 2015 Partners In Health Nurses Deliver #NursesWeek #NursesDeliver At Partners In Health, we’re not only grateful for nurses—we depend on them.
May 6, 2015
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How You Can Help Victims of the Nepal Earthquake
News of the earthquake that struck Nepal at noon April 25 has left us deeply saddened. Some of us have worked there. Others have enjoyed traveling there. All of us at Partners In Health know how an earthquake can exacerbate poverty. One moment, it is weak buildings, under-equipped hospitals, not enough rice in the bowl; the next, it is a humanitarian crisis. Our hearts go out to the people of Nepal. Thankfully, many organizations are providing relief.
April 29, 2015