News and Stories

Nurses team up to fight cancer & other chronic diseases

Sheila Davis, PIH Director of Global Nursing, blogs about nurses, chronic diseases, and PIH's latest partnership with Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Solar panels arrive at Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital

In Haiti, an economically and environmentally sustainable energy source will power a state-of-the-art hospital.

Week one of PIH's Cholera Vaccine Project reaches thousands.

In Haiti, health workers deliver the first of two doses of cholera vaccine.

Health workers vaccinating patients in rural villages

PIH co-founder Jim Yong Kim named President of World Bank

Kim to Play Powerful and Influential Role in Helping Families, Communities, and Nations Break Out of Poverty.

Vaccine team makes a house call

Jessica Teng, PIH – Artibonite Region, Haiti Today we saw two young people holding an elderly woman walking slowly along a dirt path. The two young adults told us they had already received...

Vaccine delivery begins!

In Haiti, PIH begins providing first doses of cholera vaccine to 50,000 people living in rural countryside.

IHSJ Reader, April 13, 2012

A roundup of global health news and research, published by PIH

Vaccinations to begin Sunday

Jon Lascher, PIH – Artibonite Region, Haiti Looks like we are doing refresher training and starting to deliver vaccines on Sunday... Leaving out kids 9 and under. Media interest is picking up... ...

"Jim Kim's humility would serve World Bank well"

In a Washington Post Op-Ed, PIH co-founder Paul Farmer and NYU professor John Gershman respond to claims that Kim is ﾑanti-growth.'