Margarita Perez Jimenez and Martha Domínguez López can both say their lives changed at the age of 14. They met in 2017, when Jimenez delivered the teen mother's daughter at Casa Materna, the PIH-supported maternal health center in Chiapas, Mexico.

Over a rising career with PIH, where he began as a security guard and now oversees more than 600 health workers, Benson Chabwera has remained rooted in his home district of Neno, Malawi.

Irene Murungi, a technical advisor for gender issues at two Ugandan AIDS organizations, said her executive education course at UGHE was an opportunity to challenge herself and learn from peers.

A joyous home-handover ceremony for Rose Kapeni and her three children in Neno District, Malawi, showed how community-based care can provide healing that is far more than physical. 

In case you missed them the first time around, we've compiled our top 10 stories from 2018. These are the people, places, and programs that caught your eye, from Lesotho, Sierra Leone, and Malawi to Haiti and the Navajo Nation.

Aminata Kebbie discovered she was HIV-positive when she was five months pregnant. A friendship sparked with a PIH community health worker arguably saved her and her daughter's lives.

After three months of regular care, 1-year-old Violet McDonald had gained nearly three vital pounds, as one of 11 children enrolled in the malnutrition clinic at the PIH-supported Matope Health Center.

Our 2018 Annual Report serves as a record of last year's accomplishments—and as a thank you to all of our invaluable partners who make this lifesaving work possible.

Agnes Paulo's expression was somber as she held her infant son, Ulemu, in her lap. Paulo, 35, is a single mother and living with HIV. Her four older children are HIV-negative, but Ulemu had not yet been tested.

The movement toward universal health care is growing—no matter the setting. 

Two new studies highlight incredible improvements in child and maternal health in Rwanda and Madagascar in recent years, showing repeated success, in very different environments, for Partners In Health’s ground-up model of building health systems and supporting universal care.