News and Stories
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New App Widens Access to Women’s Cancer Screening
The mUzima app will streamline patient data, improve care delivery
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Women’s Circle Offers Mental Health Support in Chiapas
A psychologist recounts a day in the life
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Putting Community Health Front and Center in Massachusetts
A team of 12 community health workers in New Bedford, Mass., showed up at fisheries and markets, shopping areas and public spaces to conduct community health surveys and assess gaps in health care access among residents of Guatemalan descent.
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Remembering Dr. Paul Farmer, One Year Later
Dr. Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away in Rwanda on February 21, 2022. In the weeks that followed, dozens of people wrote reflections, summarized here, about how his life touched theirs.
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Pleebo Health Center Laboratory Increases Capacity, Adds New Equipment
The new resources enable staff to identify and treat more conditions.
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Q&A: Why Emergency Care Matters
Emergencies happen everywhere and they happen to all of us. But where you are in the world when an emergency happens disproportionately determines your outcome.
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3 Ways PIH Hires Locally and Why It Matters
Local staff provide culturally relevant care, gain economic empowerment
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Providing Free Therapy to Trans Women In Peru
In Lima, transgender women face daily threat of discrimination, violence
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The Evolution of a Pathology Lab in Haiti
With fewer and fewer pathologists in Port-au-Prince, access for patients is increasingly difficult. "It imposes on us, I believe, a moral duty to provide these services, with the highest possible standard,” said Joarly Lormil, HUM’s chief of oncology.
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Photo Essay: The Journey to Health Care in Rural Lesotho
Travel along for a cross-country tour of Lesotho, to one of the most remote health clinics supported by Partners In Health.