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News and Stories
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Mojela Masupha Rides the Extra Mile for PIH
When Mojela Masupha was a site administrator for two rural health clinics in Lesotho, he needed a way to travel over steep mountain trails and rugged terrain. So, Partners In Health trained Masupha to ride off-road motorcycles—and a new passion was born.
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'That’s Where the Journey Begins': Data Specialist Starts Fellowship in Malawi
Themba Nyirenda was lying in bed at about 7 a.m. one morning this May, checking email on his laptop, when he got news he’d been hoping for since 2015. He immediately called his girlfriend, despite the early hour. “You cannot believe what I’m looking at,” Nyirenda said.
August 2, 2018
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PIH Model Transforms Health Care, Saves Lives in Rwanda, Madagascar
The movement toward universal health care is growing—no matter the setting. Two new studies highlight incredible improvements in child and maternal health in Rwanda and Madagascar in recent years, showing repeated success, in very different environments, for Partners In Health’s ground-up model of building health systems and supporting universal care.
July 30, 2018
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Treating Mind and Body: Mental Health Care Expanding in Lesotho
It was a story no doctor wants to tell. But at Botšabelo Hospital in Maseru, Lesotho, during a recent training on mental health care, a doctor related the story of a man who had successfully completed two grueling years of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB—only to succumb to a different, devastating illness, that far too often goes unseen.
July 24, 2018
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Eating Well: Grocery Program Takes Off in the Navajo Nation
According to local legend, a group of high school students on the edge of the Navajo Nation created the first Piccadilly in late 2017. Half a year later, the homemade snack has spread throughout the largest Indian reservation in America. Cars now queue at roadside stands selling it for $3, highschoolers with driver’s licenses deliver it throughout the rez, and regional variations of the treat continue to pop up. What is Piccadilly? Essentially, a snowcone with sugary toppings.
June 26, 2018
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Mable's Story: A Tale of Progress, and a Mother's Loss, in Liberia
Last summer in Maryland County, Liberia—the poorest corner of one of the world’s most impoverished nations—16-year-old Mable Elliot found out she was pregnant.
June 14, 2018
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New Yorker’s Ariel Levy Reflects on Ophelia Dahl, and Optimism as a “Moral Choice”
Ariel Levy, a staff writer with The New Yorker, traveled with PIH Co-founder Ophelia Dahl to Sierra Leone last October. She reflects on her experience reporting and writing her profile of Dahl, and the importance of universal health care.
June 7, 2018
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Ophelia Dahl Writes for WBUR on How to Reduce Maternal Mortality Worldwide
Partners In Health Co-founder Ophelia Dahl wrote for WBUR’s Cognoscenti about the need to reduce maternal mortality in countries like Sierra Leone--and the United States.
June 5, 2018
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Inspiring Interview with Dr. Paul Farmer in The Harvard Gazette
To coincide with the class of 2018’s graduation this month, the official news outlet for the university spoke with Professor and Partners in Health Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. After a flattering introduction, the interviewer got right to it. Q: Do you still love what you do?
May 23, 2018
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Global Views, Local Ideas: Lab Leaders Collaborate at Annual Workshop
Laboratory Director Roger Calderon needed more space to support tuberculosis work in Lima, Peru, so he led design and construction of a new lab made from a shipping container. Four people can work in the 400-square-foot facility, which has centrifuges, freezers and a customized ventilation system that recirculates the air 27 times an hour.
May 17, 2018