News and Stories
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A Plan, 14 Hens, and a Rooster in Chiapas
Chronic malnutrition affects 44 percent of children in rural Chiapas—a rate that is six times the national average in Mexico.
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What We're Reading this Summer
Take a look at what books PIH staff are reading this summer.
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Daily Rounds in Navajo Nation
Senior Community Health Worker Betty J. John checks on her high-risk patients near Shonto, Arizona.
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Safe Water, Access to Sanitation, Hygiene Key to Kicking Cholera
Zanmi Lasante, Partners In Health's sister organization in Haiti, created its own water, sanitation, and hygiene program in an effort to eliminate cholera.
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Mexico's President Honors Chiapas Nurse
Mónica Córdoba received the Lucida Salcido national nursing prize in April for her years of service in the remote, rural community of Capitán in Chiapas. Nadia Sanchez, a social service doctor working...
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Liberia's New Nurses, New Hope
If Liberia is going to rebuild its civil-war-battered, Ebola-splintered health system, it needs pioneers like Tubman’s new nurses.
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Cecilia Kanjadza Reaches University from Rural Malawi
Cecilia Kanjadza, 19, scanned the local newspaper in Neno, Malawi, for her name while standing in Partners In Health’s office. It was a moment she wanted to share with PIH staff. Earlier that day...
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A Quick, Portable Test for Ebola
In late June, Partners In Health staff and colleagues published a study on a groundbreaking medical device. Appearing in The Lancet, the study shows that a portable, fast-working Ebola test called...
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PIH Launches University in Rwanda
Partners In Health is launching a new initiative in Rwanda—the University of Global Health Equity.
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Rwanda Nears Millennium Development Goals
Rwanda has long been a front-runner in the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, those eight benchmarks in health, education, and other areas that United Nations member states aim to hit...