In the absence of a cohesive and comprehensive federal plan, local health departments, community-based organizations, and others across the country are stepping up to assume the responsibility of accompanying their communities through this new phase of COVID-19, just as they have throughout the entire pandemic.

Variants show dangers of ignoring vaccine equity

Partners In Health plans to repair oxygen plants across Peru to tackle the oxygen gap.

Dear President Joseph Biden: Stop using public health as a pretext to block asylum seekers at the United States borders. 

That’s the message from a new Perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine, written by Partners In Health leaders and collaborators. 

Case highlights need for oxygen, global vaccine equity

Wealthy nations have surpluses of COVID-19 vaccines. But more than 80% of people in Africa haven't received a single dose.

More than 36,000 people in the La Libertad region will benefit.

The first key thing to understand about Omicron is that “milder” does not equal “mild.” Delta was a bad disease, and so is Omicron. A staggering number of people are hospitalized and having complications, and while this is worse in the unvaccinated or immunocompromised, even those who are vaccinated can have bad outcomes from Omicron.

The latest highly contagious COVID-19 variant has impacted PIH-supported facilities in Kazakhstan, Peru, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone.