News and Stories

Rwanda: Butaro Ambulatory Cancer Center Opens

PIH and the Rwandan Ministry of Health Celebrate the Opening of the Butaro Ambulatory Cancer Center.

PIH Welcomes Chief Medical Officer @JoiaMukherjee to Twitter

An Accident Tests University Hospital’s Emergency Department

After a tap-tap accident in central Haiti, patients flooded University Hospital’s emergency room. PIH responded.

In Mexico, a Lebanese Medical Student Finds a Model of Excellence

What can Lebanon learn from Mexico? That question rattled around the mind of Kareem Raad as he made the nearly 24-hour trek from his home on the outskirts of Beirut to Jaltenango, Chiapas, where PIH...

'Evil Goes Where Good People Do Nothing': Blessings Banda

How a partnership that spans continents is improving global health.

Strengthening Community Health in Navajo Nation

This story originally appeared on the Brigham and Women’s Global Health Hub blog. Homes are isolated, with no running water and often no refrigeration. Heat is produced by a wood-burning stove in...

Rwanda Trains a New Generation of Cancer Nurses

With his warm, friendly smile, Jean Bosco Bigirimana is winning over a roomful of eager listeners with a presentation on the groundbreaking cancer care work he and his colleagues are doing in Rwanda...

MDR-TB in North Korea: A Q&A with PIH's Dr. KJ Seung

Dr. KJ Seung has traveled to North Korea seven times to help curb the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis. A new paper of his suggests rates of MDR-TB are far higher than current estimates.

University Hospital Shows that Aid Done Right in Haiti Improves Lives

Pragmatically, a human rights approach works better because it confronts difficult, interconnected problems with significant solutions, not small, cheap interventions.

Open-source EMR: A New Model for Evidence-based Health Care in Haiti

Partners In Health took on the herculean task of building an electronic medical record system for University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti. More than 12,000 unique patients have already been...