News and Stories
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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 with Compaňeros En Salud, Partners In Health's sister organization in Mexico, nominated her for the prize and says she has learned many lessons from the seasoned nurse since arriving in the community last August.
July 24, 2015
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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.
July 16, 2015
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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 she had received a phone call letting her know she had been accepted to college. The newspaper, containing university admissions, would confirm this.
July 15, 2015
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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 ReEBOV was widely effective.
July 8, 2015
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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.
June 26, 2015
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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 before the end of 2015. A report out this month shows that the country might be even farther along than expected.
June 25, 2015
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Young Boy Overcomes Hodgkin Lymphoma in Mexico
Meynor Perez is a 12-year-old boy who loves mathematics and spending his free time on the basketball court. But his world got flipped upside down when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Hodgkin lymphoma. Thanks to help from Compaňeros En Salud (CES), Partners In Health's sister organization in Mexico, he got the chemotherapy and radiation treatments he needed. His cancer is now in remission, and the young CES doctor who saved his life decided she wants to become a pediatric oncologist.
June 23, 2015
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Working in Global Health: Shin Daimyo
Interested in forging a career in global health? We asked Shin Daimyo, PIH's clinical program officer and program manager for mental health, to share his journey.
June 18, 2015
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Haiti Continues to Battle Cholera Outbreak
Haiti is still grappling with a pernicious cholera epidemic nearly five years after the disease's first appearance in the country. Beyond Port-au-Prince and its suburbs, the Artibonite and Centre regions—the hub of operations for Zanmi Lasante, Partners In Health’s sister organization in Haiti—have been among the hardest hit, especially the communities of St. Marc, Mirebalais, Hinche, and Lascahobas. So far, PIH/ZL staff are seeing two or three times as many patients in 2015 as they did over the same period last year.
June 11, 2015