News and Stories
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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...
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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...
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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. She promptly visited J.J. Dossen...
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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...
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Ophelia Dahl Writes for WBUR on How to Reduce Maternal Mortality Worldwide
Partners In Health Co-founder Ophelia Dahl wrote for WBUR’s Cognoscenti about the need to reduce maternal mortality in countries like Sierra Leone--and the United States.
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Inspiring Interview with Dr. Paul Farmer in The Harvard Gazette
To coincide with the class of 2018’s graduation this month, the official news outlet for the university spoke with Professor and Partners in Health Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. After a flattering...
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Global Views, Local Ideas: Lab Leaders Collaborate at Annual Workshop
Laboratory Director Roger Calderon needed more space to support tuberculosis work in Lima, Peru, so he led design and construction of a new lab made from a shipping container. Four people can work in...
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‘Mountain Kingdom’ of Lesotho Making Huge Strides with Health Reform
Every three months or so, Atlehang Seisa saddles up. The lead nurse at Mapheleng Health Center in a bucolic corner of Lesotho, Seisa joins a small team of doctors on quarterly trips by horseback, to...
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A Mother, Her Twins, and an 8-Hour Ambulance Ride in Mexico
Alejandra Catalina Ramirez was elated to learn she was pregnant with twins. When she went into labor two months early, PIH clinicians and colleagues in the Ministry of Health swung into action in a...
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The Ups and Downs of an Oncology Nurse in Haiti
Magda Louis Juste, an oncology nurse at University Hospital in Mirebalais, talks about the role of nursing in Haiti, the importance of advocating for patients, and the need for local, specialized...