News and Stories

PIH program breaking deadly strain of TB transmission in Kazakh prisons

Of the country's 35,000 prisoners, one in seven are living with preventable disease.

As 2011 comes to close, Mirebalais Hospital opening only months away

PIH thanks construction workers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers and staff for their tremendous efforts.

A new holiday tradition

A holiday message from Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard.

"Chasing mice" with Private

In Rwanda, PIH helps a young genocide survivor overcome poverty and his past.

New education program for nurses and auxiliaries raises test scores 30 percent

In Haiti, PIH's l'Hôpital Saint Nicholas moves closer to becoming site of nursing excellence.

Meet the newest Right to Health Care patients

In Guatemala, four Haitian girls are set to receive livesaving cardiac surgery.

Two years after the quake, the cornerstones of PIH's rebuilding take shape

PIH co-founder Paul Farmer reflects on Mirebalais and meliorism.

RTHC Patient: Michelda Picat

RTHC Patient: Marconi

Marconi (8) suffers from severe subvalvular and valvular pulmonic stenosis – a condition where lesions in the heart valves disrupt the blood flow. He is also epileptic.In the past few years, Marconi...

RTHC Patient: Rosaica

Rosaica (3) lives with patent ductus arteriosus and pulmonary hypertension – a heart problem that affects some babies soon after birth, where abnormal blood flow occurs between two of the major...