News and Stories
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Socios En Salud steps up training and advocacy in the fight against MDR-TB
Socios En Salud, long recognized as a leader for innovating community-based treatment for MDR-TB and for training other health professionals how to do it, has redoubled training activities, sending teams to Haiti and Africa and hosting nurses from Latin America.
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PIH receives $3 million grant to develop model for treating XDR-TB and HIV
With help from a $3 million grant from the Open Society Institute, PIH is taking on an epidemic that has been widely described as "incurable" and that threatens to reverse recent progress in combatting HIV/AIDS
March 31, 2007
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Google funds students to write code for PIH's medical record system
This summer, students around the world have the opportunity to participate in an exciting collaboration between OpenMRS and Google, Inc., to help develop an open-source medical record system that improves the care of patients with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. More than 100 students applied for up to 10 positions working with PIH by the March 24 deadline.
March 15, 2007
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ACTION ALERT
Partners In Health has been hard at work with colleagues at other organizations and in Congress to get a piece of legislation introduced that addresses the catastrophic shortage of health care workers in Africa. Now the drafting is over, the bill has been filed, and it is time to pitch in to get it passed.
March 8, 2007
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"One day, one party, one cause"
They could have danced all night. And they did. More than 900 students at Stanford University joined together in early February to stage a 24-hour dance marathon that raised more than $150,000 for Partners In Health.
March 8, 2007
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IHSJ takes on hunger and health
The Institute for Health and Social Justice (IHSJ)
March 5, 2007
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Arcade Fire sparks support for PIH
The Arcade Fire is making a name for itself, not only as one of Canada
January 28, 2007
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More mountains beyond
PIH Lesotho's accomplishments in 2006 exceed all expectations.
January 17, 2007
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PIH looks back on 2006
For PIH and our partner organizations, 2006 was a year of daunting challenges and striking achievements. For the second consecutive year, we launched a new project, this time in Lesotho. We also strengthened and expanded our operations in countries where we have been working for many years. We constructed and inaugurated new facilities in Peru, Haiti and Rwanda. We substantially increased the numbers of patients we serve and initiated major new programs to serve them better.
January 15, 2007
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Lesotho update, January 2007
After starting to work in Lesotho in June, PIH moved rapidly to implement key components of our model of comprehensive community-based care. We trained dozens of community health workers, scaled up testing and treatment for HIV, provided food to patients and families suffering from hunger and malnutrition and worked to reinforce the public health sector.
January 8, 2007