PIH Lesotho extends its ability to provide care by training Traditional Birth Attendants

Every since she was a child growing up in Haiti, Marie Myrléne St. Vil Marius has wanted to dedicate her life “to people who have nothing and are in need.”

PIH has launched a new, interactive edition of The PIH Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings. "The new website allows visitors to share insights about the manual and experiences in the field, to ask questions of each other, and to foster a community of care," explained PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee. The manual is the first module of a warehouse of PIH tools, resources and guidelines for global health delivery to be known as the "Partners In Health Model On-Line."

Socios En Salud, long recognized as a leader for innovating community-based treatment for MDR-TB and for training other health professionals how to do it, has redoubled training activities, sending teams to Haiti and Africa and hosting nurses from Latin America.

After months of construction, training, and procuring equipment and supplies, the operating room at Rwinkwavu Hospital in Rwanda is open for business. Being able to provide obstetrical surgery could save hundreds of lives in an area where maternal mortality rates are high and transportation to hospitals in other districts is not readily available.

Barely a year after establishing our first project on the African continent in Rwanda, Partners In Health has started its second in Lesotho