News and Stories
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In Their Own Words: Ebola Clinicians Share Stories
“What was a high point? What was a low point?” Those are the questions we recently asked a half-dozen doctors and nurses working in Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) in Sierra Leone. Their answers were...
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Haiti: Radiology Improves Hospital Care
At University Hospital, coordination among staff members on the ground in Haiti, Partners In Health in Boston, and U.S.-based doctors keeps the radiology department running smoothly.
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Ophelia Dahl on the Vaccination Debate
Ophelia Dahl, co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health, discussed with broadcaster Katie Couric this week a letter Dahl’s father wrote 27 years ago about the importance of vaccinations.
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PIH Continues Mobile Clinic amid Malawi Flooding
Severe flooding in Malawi in January and February has displaced thousands of people. Partners In Health's Malawian sister organization has responded to health-related issues with a weekly mobile...
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World Cancer Day: Oncology Services in Haiti
Dr. Ruth Damuse, oncology program director for Partners In Health's Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante, helped establish PIH/ZL's formal cancer care in Haiti. Zanmi Lasante's oncology...
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Daily Life in an Ebola Treatment Unit
Karin Huster has spent months battling Ebola in West Africa. The 48-year-old nurse trained Ebola responders in Liberia in September and October. And after Partners In Health pledged to fight the...
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Dr. Paul Farmer: Who Lives and Who Dies
Dr. Paul Farmer writes on the inequities of healthcare funding in "Who Lives and Who Dies," published February 5, 2015, in the London Review of Books.
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PIH Responds to Malawi Floods with Mobile Clinic
Floods in Malawi have killed scores of people, displaced thousands, and destroyed crops. PIH's sister organization and the Ministry of Health took action, organizing a mobile clinic to distribute...
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University Hospital Draws Surgeon Back Home
Dr. Mac Lee Jean Louis is the director of surgery at University Hospital in Mirebalais, which Partners In Health operates in partnership with Haiti’s Ministry of Health. Born and raised in Port-au...
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Haiti's Next Generation of Doctors Reflect
Two medical residents reflect on Haiti five years after the earthquake.