NOW on PBS features PIH's work in Rwanda.

After suffering a paralyzing injury, all Patrick wanted was "to be taken home to die." PIH's partner organization in Malawi had two weeks convince him otherwise.

Last year, the impoverished Neno District of Malawi reported more than 52,000 cases of malaria. The disease was responsible for hundreds of deaths

PIH's 15th annual Thomas J. White Symposium focused on the theme "Pushing boundaries: past, present, and future." The program featured a panel of HIV patients who shared their stories of being provided with life-saving antiretroviral drugs. Another panel featured activists who have used the PIH model and philosophy of social justice to create their own programs to provide healthcare to the poor and inspire the next generation of social justice activists. View these panels as well as speeches from PIH co-founders Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl.

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Visiting 16 patients scattered among the rural hills of Malawi not once but twice every day? "No problem!" says one village health worker named Briston Threemunthu.

PIH joins a global movement to help address the global healthcare worker shortage.

Since the beginning of 2007, PIH has ramped up its advocacy activities aimed at influencing policy and funding priorities at the national and global levels. PIH staff have testified in Congress, spoe press conferences and taken a leading role at meetings organized by the World Health Organization. Recent advocacy efforts have focused on increasing awareness and funding to address both the health worker crisis in Africa and the global spread of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).

Partners In Health has been hard at work with colleagues at other organizations and in Congress to get a piece of legislation introduced that addresses the catastrophic shortage of health care workers in Africa. Now the drafting is over, the bill has been filed, and it is time to pitch in to get it passed.

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.