News and Stories
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Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Haiti
Between 2020-2022, the project helped more than 1,900 women and 115 men subjected to violence in Haiti's Central Plateau and Artibonite regions. The range of support included medical and psychological care and treatment, financial assistance, and referrals to services, from women’s and adolescents’ empowerment groups to security support.
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Teen Mother Navigates Challenges with Expert Care in Rwanda
An unexpected pregnancy, with twins, leads young mother to a supportive health system
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Mother Accesses Care for Pregnancy, Mental Health
Young mother in Peru carries out a safe, risk-free pregnancy
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Becoming a Nurse: The Education of Cecilia Gálvez
How a young woman from rural Mexico fulfilled her dream
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Nurses, Crucial to the Global Health Workforce, Face Dwindling Ranks as Demand Grows
As nurses make up the majority of global health care personnel and provide almost 80% of hands-on care worldwide, a strong nursing workforce is integral to health system resiliency, pandemic preparedness and response, ongoing essential health care needs, and the ability to deliver on universal health care.
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People of PIH
No one should be defined by a diagnosis. There is always more to the story.
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7 Ways Community Health Workers Support Patients
Community-level workers are trusted neighbors, advocates
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Malawi Emergency Response Team Offers Medical Treatment, Psychological Care After Cyclone Freddy
At the national govenment's request, PIH in Malawi's emergency response team is providing medical care, psychological support, and food, water, and sanitation supplies to survivors of Cyclone Freddy across southern Malawi.
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Advancing the Community Health Worker Program in Liberia
There are more than 5,300 community health workers, supervisors, and nurses across the country
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Surrounded By Instability, Care Continues at PIH Hospital in Haiti
Despite a situation described by one doctor as “practicing war medicine,” and, essentially, the worst violence the ZL team has seen in four decades, these medical professionals remain at work, tending to the sick, offering care, and accompanying their patients. Indeed, this is what solidarity looks like.