News and Stories
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PIH Stands with Haiti on Earthquake Anniversary
On the earthquake anniversary, one PIH leader in Haiti reflects on the country's current state, and it's inability to welcome 60,000 Haitian nationals from the U.S. once their Temporary Protected...
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Malawi Program Making GAINs in Maternal Health
Clinicians at Partners In Health-supported facilities around the world provided more than 30,000 safe, facility-based childbirths in 2017, according to year-end estimates—and thanks to a growing...
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A Mission to Stop Cholera in Haiti
Working with Haiti's Ministry of Health, PIH hopes to eliminate cholera in Mirebalais, home to nearly 100,000, through vaccinations, hygiene education, and water filtration systems.
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2017: The Year in Quotes
Inspiration in a sentence—that’s what we were looking for as we sifted through our stories about Partners In Health in 2017. Like any round-up, this collection of quotes falls short of conveying the...
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New Year, New Maternity Ward in Liberia
Every month, at least one or two pregnant women travel great distances—often spending hours bouncing down dirt roads on the backs of motorcycles—to arrive at the gate of Pleebo Health Center in...
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"New Yorker" Celebrates PIH Co-Founder Ophelia Dahl as World Changer
Ophelia Dahl, a PIH co-founder and current board chair, made The New Yorker's end-of-year World Changers list for her decades-long work building health care systems in some of the poorest places...
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Sierra Leone’s Newest Fight
It was a landmark, a triumph, a watershed moment—without fanfare. On Oct. 6, two doctors stood under the awning of a yellow hospital on the western edge of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, and...
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NYT Columnist Kristof Promotes PIH's 'Superb Work' Fighting Cervical Cancer in Haiti
Partners In Health received a heartwarming show of support Saturday from The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who promoted PIH's reproductive health and cervical cancer efforts in his annual...
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World AIDS Day: Dr. Joia S. Mukherjee Calls for Renewed Activism, Says End to Pandemic is Possible
In commemoration of World AIDS Day, Dr. Joia S. Mukherjee describes why this is no time for complacency in the long, global battle against the deadly disease: World AIDS Day is always a reminder. A...
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Fellowship Providing Vital Support for Nursing Leaders
As she spoke to nurse managers from Rwanda, Liberia and Haiti, Dr. Lynda Tyer-Viola—a longtime nurse manager in Texas—cited a daily situation that’s true for medical professionals anywhere. “The...