News and Stories
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Breast Cancer Survivors in Haiti Share Their Stories
in 2018 alone, PIH clinicians and staff in Haiti have been caring for 450 women diagnosed with breast cancer. Here, five survivors share their stories in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Mental Health Team Expanding Innovative, Pioneering Care
Dr. Giuseppe “Bepi” Raviola, PIH’s Director of Mental Health, oversees a growing program that is caring for thousands of people in Haiti and Rwanda; developing safe houses for women with chronic mental illness in Peru; working to treat common mental disorders in communities across eight countries; and much more. We caught up with him for an eye-opening chat.
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Dr. Paul Farmer Calls for Action on Tuberculosis in STAT and on NPR
PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer comments in major news outlets on the importance of drawing attention, resources, and action to the global battle against tuberculosis.
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For His Mother: Sierra Leone PIHer Reflects on Career
In September 2014, as the largest Ebola outbreak in history was devastating West Africa, Alusine Mark Dumbuya was struggling with an additional, very personal concern in a rural region of Sierra Leone.
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Building a Passionate Team: HR Manager Tholoana Mohapi Marks a Decade of Hires in Lesotho
Tholoana Mohapi said that when she was very young, she wanted to be a nurse one day. Instead, her career has led her to more than a decade of hiring nurses and other health professionals, as a leading member of the human resources team for Partners In Health in Lesotho.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.