News and Stories
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Home Visit in the Mountains of Lesotho: A Doctor's Journal
Dr. Jonas Rigodon describes his work in the Nohana region of Lesotho.
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PIH ramps up advocacy work with focus on community health workers and XDR-TB
Since the beginning of 2007, PIH has ramped up its advocacy activities aimed at influencing policy and funding priorities at the national and global levels. PIH staff have testified in Congress, spoe press conferences and taken a leading role at meetings organized by the World Health Organization. Recent advocacy efforts have focused on increasing awareness and funding to address both the health worker crisis in Africa and the global spread of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
April 30, 2007
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On-line edition of PIH's HIV manual invites exchange of ideas and experience
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."
April 20, 2007
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Protecting Africa's children
By Lydia Flier, 2010 PIH Summer Intern Teboho talks with PIH-L social workers.
April 13, 2007
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PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee's testimony on XDR-TB to the U.S. House
Dr. Joia Mukherjee discusses the urgency of treating the widespread MDR-TB epidemic.
April 11, 2007
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PIH model for accompaniment informs global response to shortage of health workers
For years, Partners In Health has advocated for accompaniment
April 1, 2007
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Socios En Salud steps up training and advocacy in the fight against MDR-TB
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.
March 31, 2007
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PIH receives $3 million grant to develop model for treating XDR-TB and HIV
With help from a $3 million grant from the Open Society Institute, PIH is taking on an epidemic that has been widely described as "incurable" and that threatens to reverse recent progress in combatting HIV/AIDS
March 31, 2007
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Google funds students to write code for PIH's medical record system
This summer, students around the world have the opportunity to participate in an exciting collaboration between OpenMRS and Google, Inc., to help develop an open-source medical record system that improves the care of patients with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. More than 100 students applied for up to 10 positions working with PIH by the March 24 deadline.
March 15, 2007
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ACTION ALERT
Partners In Health has been hard at work with colleagues at other organizations and in Congress to get a piece of legislation introduced that addresses the catastrophic shortage of health care workers in Africa. Now the drafting is over, the bill has been filed, and it is time to pitch in to get it passed.
March 8, 2007