News and Stories
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Action alert: Fighting poverty and disease in hurricane-stricken Haiti
Torrential rains from Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna swept through Haiti earlier this week, leaving behind dangerous flood waters and devastated communities
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RTHC program brings Haitian boy to Boston for skull surgery
11-month-old Dumanel Luxama happily coos and chortles as his father stands beside him.
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Village Health Works heals people and communities in Burundi
In 1993, Deo escaped a civil war in his native country of Burundi, but he couldn
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Studies confirm XDR-TB can be cured
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is curable with intensive and specialized care conclude two recent studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and The Lancet...
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One house at a time: Malawi program constructs social and economic equity
Elana Hayasaka from the Boston-based PIH Communications Department visited Malawi to report on PIH
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A year of accomplishments for Lesotho's national multidrug-resistant TB program
In the small mountainous country of Lesotho, patients infected with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) faced almost certain death just one year ago. Today they and their families have reason to...
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Rights Groups Launch Groundbreaking Report on Right to Water in Haiti
Groups Allege U.S. and the IDB Violated Rights by Obstructing Vital Water Project
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Academic Collaboration Brings Vital OR Skills to Zanmi Lasante
Every since she was a child growing up in Haiti, Marie Myrléne St. Vil Marius has wanted to dedicate her life “to people who have nothing and are in need.”
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Training session helps former Soviet countries tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
The first scientific-practical training course "Treatment of Patients with MDR-TB" was held for doctors and TB specialists of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Tomsk...
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Painting a community
Children make their artistic mark on local community center.