News and Stories
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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.
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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
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Partners In Health teams up with the World Food Program to distribute food in Haiti
Zanmi Lasante joins forces with the UN World Food Program
July 1, 2006
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Into Africa - Haitian doctor Jonas Rigodon brings his skills to Lesotho
Dr. Jonas Rigodon, a Haitian physician who has been working with PIH/ZL since 2002, is moving to Lesotho.
July 1, 2006
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Next stop: Lesotho
Barely a year after establishing our first project on the African continent in Rwanda, Partners In Health has started its second in Lesotho
July 1, 2006