News and Stories
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Chiapas update, January 2007
Recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Stan and continuing empowerment of community health promoters were the main themes of 2006 at EAPSEC (Equipo de Apoyo en Salud y Educación Comunitaria), a PIH-supported project in Chiapas, Mexico.
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PACT update, January 2007
During 2006, the PACT project scaled up enrollment in HIV care, significantly expanded its outreach in the Boston area and established collaborative relationships that could lead to replication of the PACT model in several other communities around the United States.
January 8, 2007
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Inshuti Mu Buzima update, January 2007
During our second year in Rwanda, PIH and our Rwandan partner organization Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB) continued to renovate and expand our clinical facilities, scaled up our comprehensive HIV care program dramatically, more than doubling the number of patients on antiretroviral therapy, and expanded our support for nutrition, housing and other social and economic needs.
January 8, 2007
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Socios En Salud update, January 2007
Improving and expanding DOTS-Plus: Throughout 2006, SES worked with the Peruvian Ministry of Health and with local health officials to expand treatment for MDR-TB patients both within and beyond Lima.
January 8, 2007
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Zanmi Lasante update, January 2007
Zanmi Lasante continued to deepen and broaden its services to the poor of Haiti in 2006, inaugurating new facilities, programs and partnerships. Even as Zanmi Lasante mourned the tragic death of Jean Gabriel fils, who had led and inspired construction of dozens of new homes and other activities of the Program on Social and Economic Rights (POSER), ZL staff found new resolve to carry on his commitment to social justice.
January 8, 2007
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Treating hunger in Haiti with food
Thanks to the dedicated efforts of Zanmi Lasante
December 20, 2006
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Profile: Haitian AIDS patient delivers treatment and truth
More than 13 years ago, Denizard Wilson was diagnosed with AIDS. Soon he was too sick to continue working in Port-au-Prince, too poor to afford medical care, fearful that time was running out. Then he moved back to his hometown in the Central Plateau and went to PIH for treatment.
December 15, 2006
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Rwinkwavu operating room offers emergency obstetrics
After months of construction, training, and procuring equipment and supplies, the operating room at Rwinkwavu Hospital in Rwanda is open for business. Being able to provide obstetrical surgery could save hundreds of lives in an area where maternal mortality rates are high and transportation to hospitals in other districts is not readily available.
December 15, 2006
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PIH fields strong presence at international tuberculosis meetings
Partners In Health representatives from four continents traveled to Paris, France for the 37th World Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
December 1, 2006
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Sputnik launches Community Health Workers to combat MDR-TB in Siberia
Partners In Health Russia marked a major milestone in November with the launch of "Sputnik," a new health promotion program using community health workers to improve care for patients living with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Tomsk, Siberia.
November 1, 2006