News and Stories
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Nurses, Crucial to the Global Health Workforce, Face Dwindling Ranks as Demand Grows
As nurses make up the majority of global health care personnel and provide almost 80% of hands-on care worldwide, a strong nursing workforce is integral to health system resiliency, pandemic preparedness and response, ongoing essential health care needs, and the ability to deliver on universal health care.
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People of PIH
No one should be defined by a diagnosis. There is always more to the story.
May 3, 2023
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7 Ways Community Health Workers Support Patients
Community-level workers are trusted neighbors, advocates
April 7, 2023
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Malawi Emergency Response Team Offers Medical Treatment, Psychological Care After Cyclone Freddy
At the national govenment's request, PIH in Malawi's emergency response team is providing medical care, psychological support, and food, water, and sanitation supplies to survivors of Cyclone Freddy across southern Malawi.
April 5, 2023
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Advancing the Community Health Worker Program in Liberia
There are more than 5,300 community health workers, supervisors, and nurses across the country
April 3, 2023
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Surrounded By Instability, Care Continues at PIH Hospital in Haiti
Despite a situation described by one doctor as “practicing war medicine,” and, essentially, the worst violence the ZL team has seen in four decades, these medical professionals remain at work, tending to the sick, offering care, and accompanying their patients. Indeed, this is what solidarity looks like.
March 30, 2023
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During Haiti’s Strife, PIH Hospital Becomes a Lifeline
After residents arrived sick with cholera to Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Haiti, PIH leaders organized outreach efforts to the remote community of Borneau to deliver care and support to patients and their families, who found it difficult to leave due to surrounding gang violence.
March 28, 2023
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Chaos In Haiti Escalates as Gang Violence, Fuel Shortages Threaten Access to Health Care
Security concerns for staff and transporting medical supplies have been among the most difficult challenges, with long delays for essential medicines and supplies.
March 24, 2023
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Tracking Tuberculosis Through the Pandemic and Beyond
Dr. KJ Seung, PIH's senior health and policy advisor, explains how the COVID-19 pandemic affected tuberculosis cases and deaths and how PIH is finding innovative ways to screen for and diagnose patients in remote communities in Lesotho, Peru, Malawi, and Sierra Leone.
March 23, 2023
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A TB Patient in Kazakhstan Heals Through Support, Treatment
A crushing diagnosis provided “an opportunity to change”
March 22, 2023