News and Stories
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Strengthening Community Health in Navajo Nation
This story originally appeared on the Brigham and Women’s Global Health Hub blog. Homes are isolated, with no running water and often no refrigeration. Heat is produced by a wood-burning stove in the kitchen. Landline phones are a rarity. Access to preventive health services, such as cancer screening and immunizations, is often limited, and patients travel long distances to obtain medical care.
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Rwanda Trains a New Generation of Cancer Nurses
With his warm, friendly smile, Jean Bosco Bigirimana is winning over a roomful of eager listeners with a presentation on the groundbreaking cancer care work he and his colleagues are doing in Rwanda. “When I began nursing, we thought that cancer meant death or suffering,” says the 28-year-old oncology nurse. “But with education and access to improved treatment we found this not to be true. People can live for a long time if they are diagnosed early. Even those at the end stage can live free of pain and the quality of life can be improved.”
July 31, 2013
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MDR-TB in North Korea: A Q&A with PIH's Dr. KJ Seung
Dr. KJ Seung has traveled to North Korea seven times to help curb the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis. A new paper of his suggests rates of MDR-TB are far higher than current estimates.
July 29, 2013
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University Hospital Shows that Aid Done Right in Haiti Improves Lives
Pragmatically, a human rights approach works better because it confronts difficult, interconnected problems with significant solutions, not small, cheap interventions.
July 25, 2013
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Open-source EMR: A New Model for Evidence-based Health Care in Haiti
Partners In Health took on the herculean task of building an electronic medical record system for University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti. More than 12,000 unique patients have already been registered into it.
July 23, 2013
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Partnering with Dana-Farber in Rwanda
This article originally appeared on the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute Insight Blog.
July 19, 2013
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Celebrating a Milestone in Rwanda’s Cancer Care
An email from Dr. Neo Tapela, director of noncommunicable diseases at Partners In Health, reflecting on first-year accomplishments at Rwanda's Butaro Cancer Center.
July 19, 2013
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The Butaro Cancer Center at One Year
Fabrice’s mother struggled with her son’s diagnosis. She’d never met someone with cancer, and from what she’d heard, the diagnosis meant Fabrice would surely die.
July 17, 2013
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Cancer Patient Receives First Surgery at University Hospital
While the procedure itself was fairly routine for the ZL clinicians—they’ve performed surgeries for many years in Cange—the experience of working in University Hospital’s operating room was something entirely new.
July 16, 2013
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NCDsynergies Conference Kicking Off
July 12, 2013