A PIH staff member describes an event that revealed both how much she shared with her closest Malawian friend and how wide a gulf separates their experiences.

A pilot project in Malawi uses cell phones and open-source software to cut the distance between patients, village health workers, and clinics.

APZU provides Malawi sex workers with alternative employment opportunities, education, and health care

Many people in rural Malawi don't believe that they could be HIV positive, or are too scared to get tested. Samson Njolomole is trying to change this.

After suffering a paralyzing injury, all Patrick wanted was "to be taken home to die." PIH's partner organization in Malawi had two weeks convince him otherwise.

Barely two years after PIH's partner organization Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (APZU) arrived and started treating patients, Neno boasts Malawi's newest, full-service district hospital.

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Last year, the impoverished Neno District of Malawi reported more than 52,000 cases of malaria. The disease was responsible for hundreds of deaths

PIH's 15th annual Thomas J. White Symposium focused on the theme "Pushing boundaries: past, present, and future." The program featured a panel of HIV patients who shared their stories of being provided with life-saving antiretroviral drugs. Another panel featured activists who have used the PIH model and philosophy of social justice to create their own programs to provide healthcare to the poor and inspire the next generation of social justice activists. View these panels as well as speeches from PIH co-founders Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl.

Visiting 16 patients scattered among the rural hills of Malawi not once but twice every day? "No problem!" says one village health worker named Briston Threemunthu.