News and Stories
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2014: The Year in Quotes
From South America to West Africa to Siberia, Partners In Health and its sister organizations are marking another year spent providing a preferential health care option for the poor. Here's a glimpse...
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‘PIH Healed My Disease—and My Hunger’
Daphroza Nyiranzoga reflects on her experiences as a patient working with PIH's team in Rwanda.
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Dr. Michelle Morse: A New Mindset for Global Health Training
This article originally appeared on Devex. This November, Haiti’s first ever emergency medicine residents began training at University Hospital, a 300-bed teaching facility born out of the...
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World AIDS Day: Lessons from HIV
In the 2013 Shattuck Lecture, Partners In Health co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer argues that the true barrier to HIV treatment for poor people was a lack of funding, not the difficulty of delivering...
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Ebola Stems Economic Growth in Liberia and Sierra Leone
A new report warns that years of economic progress and social development in Sierra Leone are eroding as the Ebola outbreak continues to spread across the West African nation. The report is from...
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In Liberia, Rapid Response Teams Look to Get Ahead of Ebola
On Wednesday, five Partners In Health nurses, a doctor, and a logistician arrived in Rivercess, Liberia, a predominantly rural county located in the southern portion of the country. These five...
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Working in Global Health: Dr. Mercedes Aguerrebere
I didn’t think twice when presented with the opportunity to do my social service year with Compañeros en Salud.
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A Small Girl with a Big Challenge
Dr. Odunayo Johnson Alakaye stood in the hallway of Botsabelo MDR-TB Hospital in Maseru, Lesotho, cradling a toddler in his arms. Mamahele,* the 14-month-old girl, fussed for her mother, who stood...
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Dr. Paul Farmer: 'An Ebola Diagnosis Need Not be a Death Sentence'
This week the London Review of Books published an essay by PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer in which he reflects on a recent trip to Liberia and assesses the severity of the Ebola outbreak in West...
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Global Hand Washing Day: A Reflection on Water, Soap, and Infrastructure
Elizabeth Campa, director of WASH and Protection programming at our Haitian sister organization Zanmi Lasante, reflects on the importance of water, soap, and infrastructure in low-resource settings.