News and Stories
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Inspiring Interview with Dr. Paul Farmer in The Harvard Gazette
To coincide with the class of 2018’s graduation this month, the official news outlet for the university spoke with Professor and Partners in Health Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. After a flattering...
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Global Views, Local Ideas: Lab Leaders Collaborate at Annual Workshop
Laboratory Director Roger Calderon needed more space to support tuberculosis work in Lima, Peru, so he led design and construction of a new lab made from a shipping container. Four people can work in...
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‘Mountain Kingdom’ of Lesotho Making Huge Strides with Health Reform
Every three months or so, Atlehang Seisa saddles up. The lead nurse at Mapheleng Health Center in a bucolic corner of Lesotho, Seisa joins a small team of doctors on quarterly trips by horseback, to...
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A Mother, Her Twins, and an 8-Hour Ambulance Ride in Mexico
Alejandra Catalina Ramirez was elated to learn she was pregnant with twins. When she went into labor two months early, PIH clinicians and colleagues in the Ministry of Health swung into action in a...
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The Ups and Downs of an Oncology Nurse in Haiti
Magda Louis Juste, an oncology nurse at University Hospital in Mirebalais, talks about the role of nursing in Haiti, the importance of advocating for patients, and the need for local, specialized...
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One Mother's Fear in Lesotho: Will My Newborn Also Live With HIV?
Thabo Lerata* was born at 1 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2018, the first baby of the New Year to be delivered at Holy Cross Health Center in the highland district of Mohale’s Hoek, Lesotho. His 36-year-old mother...
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New Maternal Waiting Home in Haiti Offers "Priceless" Care
Since opening last year, the maternal waiting home at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, has welcomed hundreds of women with complicated pregnancies and mothers of NICU infants who need to be...
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PIH Featured as The Economist Calls for Universal Care
"As this week’s special report shows, the goal of universal basic health care is sensible, affordable and practical, even in poor countries. Without it, the potential of modern medicine will be...
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MSF's Dr. Liu and PIH's Dr. Farmer Raise the Alarm
Usually poor. Generally living in the slums or countryside. Busy just trying to stay alive. People who suffer tuberculosis struggle to be seen, let alone treated. On behalf of them, today Dr. Paul...
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TB Patient Advances Care in Liberia
Partners In Health community health worker Patricia Mankuah often uses a motorcycle taxi to reach her patients in Harper, a town in remote southern Liberia, and last summer, she frequently hired Paul*...