News and Stories
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PIH Launches University in Rwanda
Partners In Health is launching a new initiative in Rwanda—the University of Global Health Equity.
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Rwanda Nears Millennium Development Goals
Rwanda has long been a front-runner in the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, those eight benchmarks in health, education, and other areas that United Nations member states aim to hit before the end of 2015. A report out this month shows that the country might be even farther along than expected.
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Young Boy Overcomes Hodgkin Lymphoma in Mexico
Meynor Perez is a 12-year-old boy who loves mathematics and spending his free time on the basketball court. But his world got flipped upside down when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Hodgkin lymphoma. Thanks to help from Compaňeros En Salud (CES), Partners In Health's sister organization in Mexico, he got the chemotherapy and radiation treatments he needed. His cancer is now in remission, and the young CES doctor who saved his life decided she wants to become a pediatric oncologist.
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Working in Global Health: Shin Daimyo
Interested in forging a career in global health? We asked Shin Daimyo, PIH's clinical program officer and program manager for mental health, to share his journey.
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Haiti Continues to Battle Cholera Outbreak
Haiti is still grappling with a pernicious cholera epidemic nearly five years after the disease's first appearance in the country. Beyond Port-au-Prince and its suburbs, the Artibonite and Centre regions—the hub of operations for Zanmi Lasante, Partners In Health’s sister organization in Haiti—have been among the hardest hit, especially the communities of St. Marc, Mirebalais, Hinche, and Lascahobas. So far, PIH/ZL staff are seeing two or three times as many patients in 2015 as they did over the same period last year.
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Wall Street Journal: West Africa, PIH Resolve to Build Health Systems
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the challenges facing Liberia and Sierra Leone’s Ebola-wracked health care systems, and Partners In Health’s efforts to help in each country:
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Adama Nylenkeh: Recent Graduate, Rising Star
Adama Nylenkeh began her professional life as a volunteer ambulance nurse in Sierra Leone in late 2014. The 24-year-old Sierra Leonean quickly developed a reputation for grit, humility, and creativity and in February, Partners In Health (PIH) hired her as a program coordinator. Then in May, just four months later, she became a program officer. The promotion made her career trajectory one of the steepest at PIH, and it was hardly a fluke.
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Navajo Nation Hosts Pioneering Cancer Talks
Of the dozens of cancer symposia held around the world in April, none resembled The Navajo Cancer Survivorship Conference, a gathering of some 70 doctors, patients, traditional healers, nurses, community health workers, and residents at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, NM, on April 16. The goal of the conference wasn’t to tout cutting-edge advances or experimental drugs, as so many do. It was to figure out how existing cancer care can better serve patients in and around the Navajo Nation, a 27,000-square-mile tribal area in the Southwest.
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Training in Rwanda Focuses on Newborn Care
Doctors and nurses from across Rwanda gathered at Rwinkwavu District Hospital this spring, aiming to walk away with an understanding of the country’s new neonatal care package.
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Celebrating a Safe Birth in Lesotho
Finding Tebello Malapane wasn’t easy. To begin, Village Health Worker Manepile Mothae had to walk three hours over the winding, mountainous terrain of Lesotho. She scrambled across loose rock, over boulders and through creeks. It was summer, and the sun blazed down. At the end of her journey to Monyameng Village was a pregnant woman who needed her help. Tebello was 26 years old and rendered immobile by a degenerative disease, possibly spina bifida.