2014: Our Top 20 Photos
Posted on Dec 29, 2014
To mark the end of 2014, we wanted to share 20 images that capture the dedication of our clinicians, the ambitions of our founders, and the lives of our patients. Please visit the accompanying links for more information.
20. Paul Mainardi, left, began hearing voices and hallucinating when he was 20 years old. He was treated with psychotherapy and medication by the mental health team at Zanmi Lasante, Partners In Health’s Haitian sister organization. Mainardi walks in his neighborhood with Dr. Reginald Fils-Aime, University Hospital’s director of mental health services.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
19. Driver Sergey Goryunov and Nurse Yulia Safronova trek through the snow to a patient’s home in Tomsk, Russia. Goryunov and Safronova work with Partners In Health/Russia’s Sputnik Initiative, a model of patient-centered accompaniment that provides daily support to tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis patients who are at the greatest risk of defaulting from treatment.
Photo: Elena Devyashina for Partners In Health
18. Driver Sergey Goryunov works with PIH/Russia to deliver medication to tuberculosis patients in Tomsk, Russia. As part of the Sputnik Initiative, PIH/Russia staff members meet patients wherever they are, no matter how low the temperature or how challenging the path. Check out charts explaining multidrug-resistant TB in Russia.
Photo: Elena Devyashina for Partners In Health
17. Dr. Eduardo Peters, left, speaks with colleague Dr. Dan Palazuelos and a patient in Chiapas, Mexico. Peters is spending his social service year working with Compañeros En Salud, PIH’s sister organization in Mexico.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
16. Dr. Dan Palazuelos (reflected in mirror) visits the home of 71-year-old Belisario Cifuentes Gonzalez, who has prostate cancer. Gonzalez had surgery but remains uncomfortable and depressed. “I used to be active, I used to be able to work, but now the evil has consumed me,” he said. Palazuelos works with Compañeros En Salud, PIH’s sister organization in Chiapas, Mexico.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
15. Benitha Germain, who has worked at Belladère Hospital in Haiti since 1989, examines a patient. The patient, a 24-year-old woman pregnant for the second time, is attending her fourth prenatal visit. Her previous child did not survive. Read more about PIH's women's health work here.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
14. Community Health Worker Inela Espinoza Cadenas explains child-development activities to Samantha Huarcaya Tamani in Peru’s Carabayllo District. Cadenas works for Socios En Salud, PIH’s Peruvian sister organization, to help mothers improve their children’s language, psychomotor skills, coordination, and social ability.
Photo: Raúl Silverio Carbajal/Socios En Salud\
13. Community Health Representative Rebecca Tsosie drives a pickup hundreds of miles every week to visit patients in her home community in the Navajo Nation. Tsosie works with PIH’s sister organization, Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment, or COPE.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
12. Community Health Representative Rebecca Tsosie visits a patient at home in the Navajo Nation to ensure that she has been taking her diabetes and hypertension medications. Tsosie also checks the patient’s vital signs and blood sugar levels. View more photos from the COPE program here.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
11. Residents of the Nyamicucu community listen to the governor speak at the inauguration of the Nyamicucu Health Post in the Burera District of Rwanda. Inshuti Mu Buzima, PIH’s Rwandan sister organization, teamed up with the Rwandan Ministry of Health to open the post. It serves a community of more than 7,000. Read more about PIH/IMB's work in Rwanda here.
Photo: Maria Kaitesi/Partners In Health
10. Traditional Basotho huts line the mountainous landscape along the road between Nkau, where PIH/Lesotho runs a small clinic, and Maseru, Lesotho’s capital.
Photo: Jeff Marvin/Partners In Health
9. Partners In Health Chief Medical Officer Joia Mukherjee speaks to global health equity residents attending boot camp during a visit to the PIH/Zanmi Lasante women’s clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti.
Photo: Cecille Joan Avila/Partners In Health
8. Partners In Health co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer speaks to NPR about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa while waiting to board a U.N. flight at Spriggs Air Strip in Monrovia, Liberia. PIH is working to combat Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Read more from Farmer about Ebola here and here.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
7. The Partners In Health advance Ebola response team visits the Martha Tubman Hospital in Zwedru, Liberia.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
6. Wellbody Alliance members and Partners In Health co-founders Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl met with Sierra Leone’s president during a trip to Freetown, Sierra Leone. PIH and Wellbody Alliance are working together to treat people who have Ebola and to halt the spread of the virus.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins / Partners In Health
5. Partners In Health leaders and Wellbody Alliance members walk to the homes of Ebola survivors in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
4. Yabom Koroma, 38, is an Ebola survivor. She lost her two sons (ages 5 and 7) as well as her husband, father, and father-in-law to the virus.
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health
3. Partners In Health began treating patients at this Ebola Treatment Unit in Port Loko Town, Sierra Leone, in early November.
Photo: Jon Lascher/Partners In Health
2. Dr. Jean Jacques Alain, a member of the first OB-GYN class at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, listens to a patient while presenting during morning rounds. Partners In Health/Zanmi Lasante and Haiti’s Ministry of Health built the hospital, which treats patients and serves as a training ground for future clinicians.
Photo: Cecille Joan Avila/Partners In Health
1. Dyson Seven, a village health worker with Partners In Health/Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, receives a call on the border of Malawi and Mozambique. In nearby Chawe, PIH/APZU operates a mobile clinic that provides free health care, including maternal care and immunizations for children.
