News and Stories
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NYT Columnist Kristof Promotes PIH's 'Superb Work' Fighting Cervical Cancer in Haiti
Partners In Health received a heartwarming show of support Saturday from The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who promoted PIH's reproductive health and cervical cancer efforts in his annual holiday giving guide.
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World AIDS Day: Dr. Joia S. Mukherjee Calls for Renewed Activism, Says End to Pandemic is Possible
In commemoration of World AIDS Day, Dr. Joia S. Mukherjee describes why this is no time for complacency in the long, global battle against the deadly disease:
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Fellowship Providing Vital Support for Nursing Leaders
As she spoke to nurse managers from Rwanda, Liberia and Haiti, Dr. Lynda Tyer-Viola—a longtime nurse manager in Texas—cited a daily situation that’s true for medical professionals anywhere. “The everyday minutiae sucks all the air out of the room,” she said, referring to the flood of unexpected, urgent tasks that arise in busy hospital environments. Such tasks often detract from larger projects or duties, Tyer-Viola said, and can change whatever plans managers thought they had for their day.
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PIH Warns Against Withdrawal of TPS for Haitians
PIH finds the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protected status for Haitians living in the United States inhumane, short-sighted, and disastrous for thousands of families in the U.S. and Haiti.
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'Everyone in Freetown Knows Cholera': Door-to-Door With Vaccine Teams in Sierra Leone
The teams wound down dirt paths, high-stepped through muddy slums, and climbed stairs cemented into lush hillsides. Never mind the lack of road signs and house numbers—they knew where they were going. They lived nearby. “How di body?” one would ask a neighbor. “Body fine,” the person would reply.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.