News and Stories
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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.
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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
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FaceAIDS - Student activists aim to raise $1 million for PIH
October 2006 -- Founded in 2005 by a committed group of Stanford University students, the non-profit organization FACE AIDS has now spread to more than 85 campuses across the country. By late September, the campaign had raised more than $250,000 towards its target of $1 million to fight AIDS in Africa by supporting the work of Partners In Health.
October 6, 2006
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Jim Yong Kim named to Time Magazine's list of the world's "100 most influential people&#
PIH co-founder Jim Yong Kim is one of 16
July 11, 2006
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Ti Jean - 1971-2006
Jean Gabriel Fils died on May 28 in Central Haiti, where he had lived all his life.
July 4, 2006
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PACT expands summer activities for at-risk youth
PACT project receives grant from Boston Foundation to expand summer activities for at-risk youth
July 2, 2006