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News and Stories
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Sheila's Story: Reflections for World Diabetes Day
Chimwemwe Chipenge easily remembers the date of the diagnosis that saved her daughter’s life: June 31, 2014. That was the day Chimwemwe told clinicians with Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, as Partners In Health (PIH) is known in Malawi, that her young daughter, Sheila, “was getting smaller, losing loads of weight,” and experiencing dizziness, headaches and frequent urination. The clinicians diagnosed Sheila, now 14, with type 1 diabetes.
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Lovenyou's Transformation in Haiti
Lovenyou Pierre arrived at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, barely conscious and starving. PIH staff enrolled him in its malnutrition program. Four months later, he was a different little boy.
November 8, 2017
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Wall Street Journal: Dr. Gary Gottlieb and Money Well-Spent
A recent Wall Street Journal interview with Partners In Health CEO Dr. Gary Gottlieb offers a candid perspective on the challenges of implementing and funding global health. Dr. Gottlieb, the former president and CEO of Partners Healthcare and a psychiatrist by training, has led PIH since 2015. Below he speaks to the organization’s “laserlike” focus on investments in maternal mortality, community-based health care delivery, and the use of hard data to drive decision-making up and down the board.
November 3, 2017
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Hospital Attendant Saw Decades of Neno Health History
Over seven decades in Malawi’s Neno District, Rosemary Mapemba not only has witnessed transformative changes in health care and quality of life, but also has been a daughter, a mother, a grandmother, a Partners In Health patient, a much-loved PIH hospital attendant, and, now, finally, a retiree. The last of those things is the only one that makes her sad.
October 27, 2017
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Refugee Camp Eye-Opening for UGHE Students
Orderly lines of homes and shelters stretch far down crowded, uniform roads at Mahama Refugee Camp in southeastern Rwanda, where more than 55,000 people have arrived since 2015 after fleeing political unrest and violence in Burundi.
October 20, 2017
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Joint Statement on STREAM Stage One MDR-TB Clinical Trial Results
Partners In Health (PIH), Interactive Research and Development (IRD) and the Zero TB Initiative (ZTBI) welcome the release of the interim results from the STREAM Stage 1 clinical trial. This is the first clinical trial of a new treatment regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), and we congratulate the investigators for successfully conducting it.
October 18, 2017
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Revisiting Lunie, a Malnutrition Patient in Haiti
Lunie Lozama arrived severely malnourished at PIH's clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti, in April 2016. Less than seven months later, she was a completely different person.
October 13, 2017
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PIH, Partners Break Ground on Cancer Support Center in Rwanda
Partners In Health, the Government of Rwanda and other collaborators broke ground in September on an innovative, two-story building that will be able to house more than 70 cancer patients, loved ones and caregivers on the Butaro District Hospital campus, providing stability and community during extended treatment.
October 11, 2017
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PIH Releases How-to Guides for Mentoring, Quality Improvement Program
A Partners In Health model for mentoring health care workers is gaining broad attention after improving qualities of care in Rwanda and elsewhere for several years, and a new guideline—along with a separate, cost-analysis toolkit—describes how health centers and systems can implement the model, combat the global shortage of quality health care staffing and plan budgets across a range of services. "Building a culture of high-quality care delivery processes and systems is almost impossible, especially in resource-limited settings,” said Anatole Manzi, director
October 10, 2017
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Visiting Djouvensky, a Malnutrition Patient in Haiti
Djouvensky had been sick since he and his twin brother were born near Boucan Carré, Haiti. After enrolling in PIH's malnutrition program, he gained weight, and a new life.
October 4, 2017