News and Stories
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For His Mother: Sierra Leone PIHer Reflects on Career
In September 2014, as the largest Ebola outbreak in history was devastating West Africa, Alusine Mark Dumbuya was struggling with an additional, very personal concern in a rural region of Sierra Leone...
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Building a Passionate Team: HR Manager Tholoana Mohapi Marks a Decade of Hires in Lesotho
Tholoana Mohapi said that when she was very young, she wanted to be a nurse one day. Instead, her career has led her to more than a decade of hiring nurses and other health professionals, as a leading...
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Mojela Masupha Rides the Extra Mile for PIH
When Mojela Masupha was a site administrator for two rural health clinics in Lesotho, he needed a way to travel over steep mountain trails and rugged terrain. So, Partners In Health trained Masupha to...
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'That’s Where the Journey Begins': Data Specialist Starts Fellowship in Malawi
Themba Nyirenda was lying in bed at about 7 a.m. one morning this May, checking email on his laptop, when he got news he’d been hoping for since 2015. He immediately called his girlfriend, despite the...
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PIH Model Transforms Health Care, Saves Lives in Rwanda, Madagascar
The movement toward universal health care is growing—no matter the setting. Two new studies highlight incredible improvements in child and maternal health in Rwanda and Madagascar in recent years...
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Treating Mind and Body: Mental Health Care Expanding in Lesotho
It was a story no doctor wants to tell. But at Botšabelo Hospital in Maseru, Lesotho, during a recent training on mental health care, a doctor related the story of a man who had successfully...
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Eating Well: Grocery Program Takes Off in the Navajo Nation
According to local legend, a group of high school students on the edge of the Navajo Nation created the first Piccadilly in late 2017. Half a year later, the homemade snack has spread throughout the...
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Mable's Story: A Tale of Progress, and a Mother's Loss, in Liberia
Last summer in Maryland County, Liberia—the poorest corner of one of the world’s most impoverished nations—16-year-old Mable Elliot found out she was pregnant. She promptly visited J.J. Dossen...
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New Yorker’s Ariel Levy Reflects on Ophelia Dahl, and Optimism as a “Moral Choice”
Ariel Levy, a staff writer with The New Yorker, traveled with PIH Co-founder Ophelia Dahl to Sierra Leone last October. She reflects on her experience reporting and writing her profile of Dahl, and...
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Ophelia Dahl Writes for WBUR on How to Reduce Maternal Mortality Worldwide
Partners In Health Co-founder Ophelia Dahl wrote for WBUR’s Cognoscenti about the need to reduce maternal mortality in countries like Sierra Leone--and the United States.