News and Stories
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"New Yorker" Celebrates PIH Co-Founder Ophelia Dahl as World Changer
Ophelia Dahl, a PIH co-founder and current board chair, made The New Yorker's end-of-year World Changers list for her decades-long work building health care systems in some of the poorest places...
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Sierra Leone’s Newest Fight
It was a landmark, a triumph, a watershed moment—without fanfare. On Oct. 6, two doctors stood under the awning of a yellow hospital on the western edge of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, and...
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NYT Columnist Kristof Promotes PIH's 'Superb Work' Fighting Cervical Cancer in Haiti
Partners In Health received a heartwarming show of support Saturday from The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who promoted PIH's reproductive health and cervical cancer efforts in his annual...
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World AIDS Day: Dr. Joia S. Mukherjee Calls for Renewed Activism, Says End to Pandemic is Possible
In commemoration of World AIDS Day, Dr. Joia S. Mukherjee describes why this is no time for complacency in the long, global battle against the deadly disease: World AIDS Day is always a reminder. A...
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Fellowship Providing Vital Support for Nursing Leaders
As she spoke to nurse managers from Rwanda, Liberia and Haiti, Dr. Lynda Tyer-Viola—a longtime nurse manager in Texas—cited a daily situation that’s true for medical professionals anywhere. “The...
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PIH Warns Against Withdrawal of TPS for Haitians
PIH finds the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protected status for Haitians living in the United States inhumane, short-sighted, and disastrous for thousands of families in the U.S...
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'Everyone in Freetown Knows Cholera': Door-to-Door With Vaccine Teams in Sierra Leone
The teams wound down dirt paths, high-stepped through muddy slums, and climbed stairs cemented into lush hillsides. Never mind the lack of road signs and house numbers—they knew where they were going...
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Sheila's Story: Reflections for World Diabetes Day
Chimwemwe Chipenge easily remembers the date of the diagnosis that saved her daughter’s life: June 31, 2014. That was the day Chimwemwe told clinicians with Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, as Partners In...
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Lovenyou's Transformation in Haiti
Lovenyou Pierre arrived at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, barely conscious and starving. PIH staff enrolled him in its malnutrition program. Four months later, he was a different little boy...
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Wall Street Journal: Dr. Gary Gottlieb and Money Well-Spent
A recent Wall Street Journal interview with Partners In Health CEO Dr. Gary Gottlieb offers a candid perspective on the challenges of implementing and funding global health. Dr. Gottlieb, the former...