News and Stories
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Climate Change Is A Global Health Emergency
As PIH has seen firsthand in its work around the world, climate change isn't just a threat to our environment—it's a threat to our health.
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Telehealth Apps Connect Patients With Care In Peru
In Peru, Partners In Health is using telehealth apps to connect patients with care for mental health, maternal health, and more.
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Why Equitable Global COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Is Essential
More than three months ago, COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out and a 91-year-old woman in the United Kingdom became the first person—outside of a clinical trial—to receive a vaccine. Six days later...
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Envisioning a 21st Century Public Health Department in Pima County
Monoclonal antibody treatment is just one of many steps the southern Arizona county is taking toward improving access to care and accompaniment during COVID-19—and beyond
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Care, In A Backpack: Fighting TB in Peru
Partners In Health has been fighting tuberculosis in Peru for decades. Its latest intervention is Mochila TB, a tool that takes testing to patients wherever they may be—from prisons to shelters to...
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PIH Stands in Solidarity with Asian American and Pacific Islander Community
We remain hopeful that, through collective advocacy and action in support of and alongside the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, we can build a stronger, more just, and equitable society.
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COVID Pandemic Devastating to Global TB Care, But Could Bring Positive Change
COVID-19 has severely disrupted care and services for people with tuberculosis, costing hundreds of thousands of lives—but safety protocols, infrastructure, and testing capacity implemented for the...
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Botšabelo Hospital Leading Lesotho’s Care and Support for TB and COVID-19
On World TB Day, PIH Lesotho held community TB screenings in rugged Buta-Buthe District and launched intensive TB screening programs in factories and prisons in Maseru, Lesotho’s capital.
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Patients Cured Through New TB Drugs, Social Support in Kazakhstan
While pregnant with her second child, Maral Shorayeva began experiencing symptoms that felt like a cold or flu, but when she went to give birth to her daughter, doctors recognized that something was...
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Healed Again, Whole Again: Curing TB in Sierra Leone
PIH and the National TB Program have built up Lakka as a tuberculosis hospital that cures 75 percent of its MDR-TB patients—a rate significantly higher than the global average of 57 percent, and one...