As the fight against COVID-19 continues in Chiapas, Mexico, clinicians are leveraging their expertise and experience to respond with compassionate care, applying lessons learned over the past several months.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic flooded our work, website, and lives in 2020, a third of our most-read blog posts this year focused on other topics. Here are the 12 most-read stories of 2020, listed by date of publication.

With nearly 400 mentions in the press in 2020, it was difficult to narrow the list down to our favorites. But here's a selection of our top 13, listed by date of publication.

Dr. Carole Mitnick, co-principal investigator for the endTB project and a senior tuberculosis researcher with PIH, discusses her team's newest clinical trial--launched amidst the COVID-19 pandemic--and the promise it holds for marginalized communities.

Lesotho health leaders said the country's first medical oxygen plant is a landmark for building a stronger health system during COVID-19 and beyond

Armando Torres, a 67-year-old coffee farmer in Chiapas, Mexico, spent 18 days in a PIH-supported hospital and shares his story of surviving COVID-19, thanks to the compassionate care he received.

Seventeen years old and at a boarding school far from home, Melino Ndayizigiye became so sick he feared he would die before his family learned of his illness. But he recovered, and the doctor who cured him—the first doctor Melino had ever seen—later became Melino's professor, launching a career dedicated to rural medicine.

Partners In Health stands in solidarity with global organizations and leaders calling for a “People’s Vaccine”—a vaccine that is made free and accessible to all people around the world. PIH leaders signed an open letter urging the incoming U.S. presidential administration to ensure that the vaccine, likely from among the candidates developed by American companies, is made available to all.

With PIH's support, states and municipalities battling COVID-19 are hiring and training residents as community health workers to connect patients and their families with care and support.