News and Stories
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Dr. Joia Mukherjee Testifies Before Congress
PIH Medical Director Dr. Joia Mukherjee testifies before the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health in 2007 on the issue of Health Systems Strengthening and the AIDS Pandemic.
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Village Health Workers Song
Composed and performed by Village Health Workers in Lesotho Translated by Archie AyehThe message has reached all nations Our people, the time has come Time to fight the fiercest battle We have to fight to defend the Basotho nationPeople, young and old, take up your weapons Let’s fight and defend our Basotho nation Because AIDS has wiped our nation Children are left behind as orphans
September 12, 2007
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Breakthrough in Bobete
The PIH project in Lesotho scored an important breakthrough in mid-September in its efforts to bring universal HIV prevention, testing and treatment to remote mountain communities. The Bobete health center organized its first clinic session designed specifically to encourage participation, education and testing for men.
September 5, 2007
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14th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium
Save the date: PIH Symposium coming to Cambridge
September 4, 2007
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One year of successful HIV treatment in the mountains of Lesotho
Partners In Health began working in Lesotho in 2006. Lesotho is a very mountainous and rural country. Only about 10 percent of the 2 million Basotho people live in the capital.
September 1, 2007
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Paul Farmer reports from Lesotho on the eve of the PIH project's first anniversary
All of PIH-Lesotho will be celebrating a birthday on August 22, when co-workers from Lesotho, Rwanda, Malawi, and Boston join the Minister of Health, the Clinton Foundation, the Irish Government (which has funded much of our work in Lesotho), and many other partners and supporters in the same town, Nohana. Nohana has been transformed in many ways: the facilities there have been retrofitted for infection control; a new clinic has been built; and hundreds of patients with AIDS and TB are receiving world-class care.
August 28, 2007
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Socios En Salud responds to earthquake
A rapid-response medical team from Socios En Salud (SES), PIH
August 20, 2007
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IPHU in Atlanta
PIH's Institute for Health and Social Justice leads a course on "Promoting Health for All."
August 15, 2007
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SELF help brings solar power to PIH clinics in rural Rwanda
A reliable energy source is essential for the operation of hospitals and clinics. But that
August 4, 2007
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PIH Right to Health Care program helps give Rwandan children new heart valves and hope
“Jeanette was so sick,” said Dr. Joseph Mucumbitsi, a Rwandan pediatrician. Bedridden for months, the 14-year-old only weighed about 65 pounds. Her heart, weakened and scarred from an infection, could not effectively pump blood to the rest of her body, and she was slowly suffocating.Eight-year-old Louise was also struggling to survive. Her swollen body was wracked by recurrent asthma-like spasms in her lungs and persistent coughing.
August 4, 2007