At 1 p.m. on November 12, Dr. Eddy Jonas and his team performed the first surgery in a brand new operating room at the hospital at Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite in Haiti.

APZU provides Malawi sex workers with alternative employment opportunities, education, and health care

Babies born prematurely and underweight rarely survive in rural central Haiti. Could the Jolie twins beat the odds?

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.

As a child growing up in Haiti, Marie Myrléne St. Vil Marius decided to dedicate her life “to people who have nothing and are in need.”

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.

Zanmi Lasante's Women's Health Project helps crush the cycle of poverty and disease.