News and Stories
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PIH Featured as The Economist Calls for Universal Care
"As this week’s special report shows, the goal of universal basic health care is sensible, affordable and practical, even in poor countries. Without it, the potential of modern medicine will be squandered.” So argues the cover story of the latest issue of The Economist magazine, a seven-part examination of how best to provide care for all. PIH features prominently.
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MSF's Dr. Liu and PIH's Dr. Farmer Raise the Alarm
Usually poor. Generally living in the slums or countryside. Busy just trying to stay alive. People who suffer tuberculosis struggle to be seen, let alone treated. On behalf of them, today Dr. Paul Farmer, a founder of Partners In Health, and Dr. Joanne Liu, the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières, published a jointly written op-ed in Project Syndicate, a Czech-based organization that offers free news commentary to some 500 media outlets around the world.
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TB Patient Advances Care in Liberia
Partners In Health community health worker Patricia Mankuah often uses a motorcycle taxi to reach her patients in Harper, a town in remote southern Liberia, and last summer, she frequently hired Paul*, a friendly, trusted 30-something with a reliable motorcycle.
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Melquiades Huauya Ore: From MDR-TB Patient, to Survivor, to Movie Star and Advocate
Melquiades Huauya Ore was 18 when he was diagnosed with MDR-TB, one of the deadliest strains of the disease. After years of treatment, he became cured. Along the way, he met the future World Bank president, and his story was retold in Bending the Arc, a documentary about PIH's 30-year evolution.
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Dauntless Lesotho man defeats MDR-TB, defies family history
A severe form of tuberculosis killed Moeketsi Ts'osane’s mother in 2008, and one of his brothers in 2010. Health workers suspect the disease may also have contributed to the 2005 death of Ts'osane’s father, who had worked as a miner in South Africa. So when Ts'osane was diagnosed with MDR-TB himself, in 2015, his family and friends had grim hopes for his future. “The people around me, because of what had happened…to them, it was the end of me,” the 29-year-old Ts'osane said in February, sitting at work in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho.
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'The Core of Our Program:' Likhapha Ntlamelle Leading MDR-TB Outreach in Lesotho
Slowing the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Lesotho means going to many more places than hospitals and clinics. It means going to taxi associations. Mining companies. High schools. Primary schools. Prisons and police facilities.
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Parents Managing HIV, Four Healthy Kids in Lesotho
On a sunny morning in February, near the end of a hot, dry summer in the southern Africa nation of Lesotho, Mafelleng September held her month-old infant on her lap while two young children played on the floor in front of her.
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#ThanksToHer: Kazakhstan TB Doctor Has Changed Thousands of Lives
When asked how many tuberculosis (TB) patients she’s treated over the past 20 years in Kazakhstan, Dr. Zhenisgul Daugarina smiled before giving numbers for just the past three. "Over the past three years, 268 patients have been discharged from (our) MDR/XDR-TB treatment department, and another 568 have been transferred to other units to continue treatment," she said.
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A Haitian Mother's Lifelong Battle with Leukemia
Martha Cassemond was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia when she was 12 and has been on lifesaving medication for the past 13 years, thanks to the care and support of Partners In Health in Haiti.
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Marana Toussaint: Mother, Survivor, Advocate in Haiti
Marana Toussaint, 37, underwent extensive surgery and battled cancer with the help of PIH staff at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti. Now, she educates others about the importance of health care.