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News and Stories
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PIH, Sierra Leone Address Needs of Pregnant Women amid Ebola
Caring for women with pregnancy complications during the Ebola outbreak has been difficult, but clinicians are making progress with a specialized unit at a Freetown hospital.
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Karin Huster: Fairness in Ebola Treatment
Nurse Karin Huster, a PIH clinical lead in Sierra Leone, writes on the need to ask tough questions in "All Lives Matter," published April 6, 2015, in Slate.
April 7, 2015
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PIH Clinician Upgraded to Good Condition
The National Institutes of Health upgraded the Partners In Health clinician infected with Ebola virus disease to good condition today.
April 7, 2015
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PIH Mexico Expands to Two New Sites in Chiapas
CES partners with Mexico’s Ministry of Health to recruit and train young doctors, who manage public clinics throughout Chiapas during their social service year. The first-year doctors, or pasantes, have conducted more than 45,000 patient visits in eight communities throughout the southeastern state since CES began providing services there in 2012. CES expanded to Letrero and Monterrey in February, pushing its reach farther into the surrounding Sierra Madre mountains.
April 1, 2015
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PIH Clinician Infected with Ebola Upgraded to Fair Condition
The National Institutes of Health upgraded the clinical status of the PIH clinician infected with Ebola virus disease from serious to fair condition today.
March 30, 2015
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NIH Upgrades Status of PIH Clinician Infected with Ebola
The National Institutes of Health changed the clinical status of the PIH clinician infected with Ebola virus disease from critical to serious condition today.
March 26, 2015
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Haiti: Mosaics to Bring Inspiration, Hope to Rehab Patients
Mosaic artist Laurel True, members of the Mirebalais Mosaic Collective, and University Hospital staff and patients collaborated to design, create, and install mosaics throughout the new Center of Excellence in Rehab and Education in Mirebalais, Haiti.The project was made possible through a successful Kickstarter campaign.
March 26, 2015
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Peru: Study Aims to Reveal How TB Spreads
Scientists have long debated the dynamics of how tuberculosis spreads in people, including whether MDR-TB is as likely to spread as drug-sensitive TB. Epidemiologists behind the Peru study, which followed 18,500 people for several years, hope that answering this question will better equip public health professionals to stop tuberculosis in all its forms.
March 24, 2015
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Dying of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century
Ebola is the tip of a global health crisis: a crisis in our collective ability to deliver the essentials of modern medicine to those who need help the most. Few diseases illustrate the ongoing nature of this crisis better than tuberculosis, a highly transmissible airborne infection that kills more than 1.5 million people every year.
March 23, 2015
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Malawi Floods: Update from Joe Lusaka
I decided to move to Chikwawa in order to alleviate the disease burden unleashed by the floods, and to bring us closer to making real the human right to health care.
March 20, 2015