News and Stories
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Lancet Global Health Article Proposes Path to Universal Health Coverage
A PIH-developed open-source tool helps district health managers plan, implement, and monitor their paths toward universal health coverage for communities in need around the world, write authors of a recent piece in The Lancet Global Health.
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Floods Kill Dozens, Leave Thousands Homeless in Malawi
Heavy rains and flooding have taken the lives of 30 people and damaged the homes and property of 487,000 residents across southern Malawi, where PIH has supported facilities in Neno District since 2007.
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In Mexico, A Traditional Midwife and Teenage Mom Share Special Bond
Margarita Perez Jimenez and Martha Domínguez López can both say their lives changed at the age of 14. They met in 2017, when Jimenez delivered the teen mother's daughter at Casa Materna, the PIH-supported maternal health center in Chiapas, Mexico.
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Blessings Henry, Neno's Feminist Future Doctor
With support from PIH and a community of remarkable women, 17-year-old Blessings Henry is eyeing medical school as she finishes the last year of her secondary education in Neno, Malawi.
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Public Defender: Benson Chabwera Dedicated to Neno Community
Over a rising career with PIH, where he began as a security guard and now oversees more than 600 health workers, Benson Chabwera has remained rooted in his home district of Neno, Malawi.
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Haiti Facing Severe Shortages, ‘New Normal’ Following Weeks of Unrest
Two staff members from Zanmi Lasante, as Partners In Health is known in Haiti, reflect on unrest in recent weeks and discuss how staff, patients, and loved ones are adjusting to a "new normal" within the country.
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Research: Clinic Visits, Diagnoses Increase When Patients Access Free Care in Malawi
PIH research in Malawi confirms that when health care is nearby and free, exponentially more patients arrive at clinics and diagnoses rise for infectious diseases.
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Rising Star 'Kankwanzi' a Masonry Role Model on UGHE Site
Anne Marie Nyiranshimiyimana faced criticism and stigma when she began working as a mason. “They told me, ‘No woman builds, no woman climbs.’ They told me, ‘Women can’t do a lot of things.'"
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UGHE Alumni Spotlight: Irene Murungi
Irene Murungi, a technical advisor for gender issues at two Ugandan AIDS organizations, said her executive education course at UGHE was an opportunity to challenge herself and learn from peers.
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PIH Staff: ‘Haiti Under Siege’ as Medical Crisis Intensifies
PIH leaders in Haiti say staff have been held at gunpoint and a PIH vehicle has been stolen as nurses and doctors face “overwhelming challenges” to reach health facilities amid ongoing civil unrest.