News and Stories
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Expanding New Drugs for TB (endTB)
endTB is an innovative project using new TB drugs implemented by the international organizations Partners In Health (PIH), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Interactive Research and Development (IRD), and funded by UNITAID with a four-year, 60.4 million USD grant. This poject aims to produce concrete results in the form of more effective and better-tolerated regimens for MDR-TB that will in turn lead to greater access.
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Haitian Nurse Looks Back on Storied Career
Marie Myrka Amazan, 66, is the cross-site coordinator of continuing education for all nurses in the health clinics and hospitals supported by Zanmi Lasante, Partners In Health’s sister organization, in the Central Plateau and lower Artibonite regions of Haiti. She has worked with ZL since 2000, contributing to the growth of services across central Haiti.
May 13, 2015
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Working in Global Health: Nataliya Zemlyanaya
In this series, we ask a seasoned colleague to share professional experiences with those interested in forging a career in global health. For this edition, we asked Nataliya Zemlyanaya, the program manager of our office in Tomsk, Russia.
May 7, 2015
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Celebrating International Nurses Week 2015
May 6-12, 2015 Partners In Health Nurses Deliver #NursesWeek #NursesDeliver At Partners In Health, we’re not only grateful for nurses—we depend on them.
May 6, 2015
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How You Can Help Victims of the Nepal Earthquake
News of the earthquake that struck Nepal at noon April 25 has left us deeply saddened. Some of us have worked there. Others have enjoyed traveling there. All of us at Partners In Health know how an earthquake can exacerbate poverty. One moment, it is weak buildings, under-equipped hospitals, not enough rice in the bowl; the next, it is a humanitarian crisis. Our hearts go out to the people of Nepal. Thankfully, many organizations are providing relief.
April 29, 2015
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Back for Good: Clinicians Return to West Africa
Never mind that he knew nothing about ranching, PIH clinician Devin Platt was obsessed with becoming a rancher. After college he saved what feed money he could from seasonal jobs as a raft guide and ski patroller. During long drives around the West, he kept his eyes open for the ideal small town. He enrolled in nursing school, in part because it was a natural extension of his backcountry emergency-medicine skills, and in part because an RN promised the free time to learn something about cows. Mostly he cold-called ranchers, some three-dozen between 2004 and 2014.
April 28, 2015
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What Does It Mean to Heal and Be Healed? #WeHeal
Thank you for being part of the #WeHeal project! From April 10 through April 26, we asked you to share stories of how you were healed or helped someone else heal. And you did—big time. We sparked a global conversation and received dozens of submissions from people who wrote poems, took pictures, recorded video, and shared stories about the healing process. Some entries brought smiles, other tears; but they all show how #WeHeal together. Here's a sampling of some of our favorites:
April 22, 2015
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Haiti: Training a New Generation of Family Physicians
When it launched in 2011, the St. Marc family medicine residency was PIH’s first formal training program for medical specialists in Haiti, made possible through a partnership with sister organization Zanmi Lasante, Haiti’s national medical school, and the Ministry of Health. The first six residents finished their three-year program in December; and five are now working part- or full-time as attending physicians or mentors for residents within the PIH/ZL network. Another 16 family medicine residents are now training at St. Marc's Hôpital St. Nicolas.
April 20, 2015
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Young Doctors Ensure Continuity of Care in Rural Mexico
Since launching in 2012, Compañeros En Salud has partnered with Mexico’s Ministry of Health to send seven generations of first-year doctors—25 in all—to rural, public clinics at 10 sites throughout Chiapas. Each transition requires a careful passing of the baton from one wave of doctors to the next. While CES staff facilitate this transition through introductions and regular site visits, outgoing doctors smooth the path for their colleagues by remaining in the community for as many as four weeks to bring them up to speed on patients’ cases and help them adjust to life in a remote rural location.
April 14, 2015
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Partners In Health Clinician Leaves Hospital Free of Ebola
The Partners In Health clinician recovering from Ebola virus disease was discharged earlier today from the National Institutes of Health.
April 9, 2015