News and Stories
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Home Visit in the Mountains of Lesotho: A Doctor's Journal
Dr. Jonas Rigodon describes his work in the Nohana region of Lesotho.
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PIH ramps up advocacy work with focus on community health workers and XDR-TB
Since the beginning of 2007, PIH has ramped up its advocacy activities aimed at influencing policy and funding priorities at the national and global levels. PIH staff have testified in Congress, spoe...
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On-line edition of PIH's HIV manual invites exchange of ideas and experience
PIH has launched a new, interactive edition of The PIH Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings. "The new website allows visitors to share insights about the manual and...
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Protecting Africa's children
By Lydia Flier, 2010 PIH Summer Intern Teboho talks with PIH-L social workers.Before Partners In Health’s project in Lesotho (PIH-L) implemented a community-based multidrug-resistant tuberculosis...
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PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee's testimony on XDR-TB to the U.S. House
Dr. Joia Mukherjee discusses the urgency of treating the widespread MDR-TB epidemic.
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PIH model for accompaniment informs global response to shortage of health workers
For years, Partners In Health has advocated for accompaniment
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Socios En Salud steps up training and advocacy in the fight against MDR-TB
Socios En Salud, long recognized as a leader for innovating community-based treatment for MDR-TB and for training other health professionals how to do it, has redoubled training activities, sending...
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PIH receives $3 million grant to develop model for treating XDR-TB and HIV
With help from a $3 million grant from the Open Society Institute, PIH is taking on an epidemic that has been widely described as "incurable" and that threatens to reverse recent progress in...
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Google funds students to write code for PIH's medical record system
This summer, students around the world have the opportunity to participate in an exciting collaboration between OpenMRS and Google, Inc., to help develop an open-source medical record system that...
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ACTION ALERT
Partners In Health has been hard at work with colleagues at other organizations and in Congress to get a piece of legislation introduced that addresses the catastrophic shortage of health care workers...