News and Stories
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One Mother's Fear in Lesotho: Will My Newborn Also Live With HIV?
Thabo Lerata* was born at 1 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2018, the first baby of the New Year to be delivered at Holy Cross Health Center in the highland district of Mohale’s Hoek, Lesotho. His 36-year-old mother...
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New Maternal Waiting Home in Haiti Offers "Priceless" Care
Since opening last year, the maternal waiting home at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, has welcomed hundreds of women with complicated pregnancies and mothers of NICU infants who need to be...
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PIH Featured as The Economist Calls for Universal Care
"As this week’s special report shows, the goal of universal basic health care is sensible, affordable and practical, even in poor countries. Without it, the potential of modern medicine will be...
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MSF's Dr. Liu and PIH's Dr. Farmer Raise the Alarm
Usually poor. Generally living in the slums or countryside. Busy just trying to stay alive. People who suffer tuberculosis struggle to be seen, let alone treated. On behalf of them, today Dr. Paul...
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TB Patient Advances Care in Liberia
Partners In Health community health worker Patricia Mankuah often uses a motorcycle taxi to reach her patients in Harper, a town in remote southern Liberia, and last summer, she frequently hired Paul*...
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Melquiades Huauya Ore: From MDR-TB Patient, to Survivor, to Movie Star and Advocate
Melquiades Huauya Ore was 18 when he was diagnosed with MDR-TB, one of the deadliest strains of the disease. After years of treatment, he became cured. Along the way, he met the future World Bank...
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Dauntless Lesotho man defeats MDR-TB, defies family history
A severe form of tuberculosis killed Moeketsi Ts'osane’s mother in 2008, and one of his brothers in 2010. Health workers suspect the disease may also have contributed to the 2005 death of Ts'osane’s...
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'The Core of Our Program:' Likhapha Ntlamelle Leading MDR-TB Outreach in Lesotho
Slowing the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Lesotho means going to many more places than hospitals and clinics. It means going to taxi associations. Mining companies. High...
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Parents Managing HIV, Four Healthy Kids in Lesotho
On a sunny morning in February, near the end of a hot, dry summer in the southern Africa nation of Lesotho, Mafelleng September held her month-old infant on her lap while two young children played on...
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#ThanksToHer: Kazakhstan TB Doctor Has Changed Thousands of Lives
When asked how many tuberculosis (TB) patients she’s treated over the past 20 years in Kazakhstan, Dr. Zhenisgul Daugarina smiled before giving numbers for just the past three. "Over the past three...