Partners in Health

Why Everyone Should Celebrate Jim Yong Kim's Election as President of the World Bank

Leslie Gerwin | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Investment in Public Health Infrastructure, Fighting Poverty, Jim Yong Kim, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, Women's Health, Economic Development, World Bank, Public Health, Institute of Medicine, World News
Leslie Gerwin

This is a moment for Americans to recognize what Dr. Kim's work teaches us -- economic health depends upon healthy people and healthy communities.

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Breaking Glass Ceiling Against Compassionate Expertise, Obama Taps Jim Yong Kim to Lead World Bank

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Jim Yong Kim, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, World Bank, President Obama, World News
Robert Naiman

President Obama has nominated Jim Yong Kim, a physician who has been a leader of efforts to extend access to health care in poor countries, to lead the World Bank. This is a huge, historic victory for justice.

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Effective Service Delivery: Accompaniment

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Global Health, Global Motherhood, Partners in Health, Impact News, Haiti, HIV/AIDS, Haiti Health Care, Impact News
Christy Turlington Burns

For those of you who have heard of Paul Farmer, you can probably imagine him in this scene: he is trudging for miles to visit patients in their homes as they struggle to fight their own health battles.

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Give a Wo(man) a Fish... Or a Farm... Or Both

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Global Motherhood, Partners in Health, Food Production, Global Health, Hunger, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake Recovery, Food Security, Impact News
Christy Turlington Burns

As it was explained to us, there are three root causes that lay at the core of malnutrition in the area: a lack of jobs, a lack of education, and lastly, environmental degradation.

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All People Are People (Tout Moun Se Moun)

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Global Motherhood, Haiti, Slidepollajax, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Partners in Health, Impact News
Christy Turlington Burns

It was not long ago when we stood by in distant and utter shock, praying only as we could for the well being of the Haitian people.

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Aid Group Believes It's Tracked First Haiti Cholera Case

AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Louise Ivers, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Video, Haiti Earthquake, David Walton, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, Disease, Haiti, Cholera, Port-Au-Prince, Impact News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A mentally ill man who bathed in and drank from a contaminated river most likely was the first person to be infected in the C...

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Buy a Bar, Save a Life

Lauren Walters | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Nutrition Bars, Two Degrees Food, Partners in Health, Impact News
Lauren Walters

What makes our company different from any other company in the market is that for every bar sold, we give a medically-formulated nutrition pack to a malnourished child in a developing country.

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A Field Nurse In Haiti

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greatest Person of the Day, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Partners in Health, Haiti, Impact News

"There was no other option, I had to go." Haitian-born nurse Nadia Raymond describes her decision to volunteer in post-quake Haiti as "automatic." ...

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Hope for Haiti's Unemployed

Amanda Lin Costa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Partners in Health, Mit, Unicef, Diaspora, Unesco, Amanda Lin Costa, Greg Elliot, Haiti, The Lone Olive, Mobile Technology, Haiti Earthquake, Illiteracy, Bob Lemoine, Volunteering, Aaron Zinman, Unemployement, Konbit, World News
Amanda Lin Costa

Great ideas always come out of MIT. This one isn't any different. Konbit is a service that allows anyone to call a phone number in Haiti toll-free a...

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Top Ten Private Initiatives in Haiti Supplement Big Players in 2010-11

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: We Can?T Have That Foundation, Sandy Mitchell, Rotary International, Mirlande Manigat, Partners in Health, Marcel Duret, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, DePaul University, Anne Hastings, American Institute of Architects, Leogane, Collaborative Design for Sustainable Housing Haiti, Federation Des Caisses, Jurate Kazickas, Wyclef Jean, Yele Haiti, Hugh Locke, Jim Luce, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Cine Institute of Jacmel, Yele Corps, Port-Au-Prince, International University Center Haiti, International Museum of Art Haiti, YMCA Haiti, Noushin Ehsan, Petite Goave, Orphans International Worldwide Haiti, Konsey Nasyonal Finansman Popile, Stanford L. Luce, Kenneth Merten, Haitian Diaspora, Larry Mellon, Microfinance, Zafen, Haitian Hometown Associations, Bob Cushman, NPH Saint Damien Hospital, Haiti, Fonkoze, Hopital Ste Croix Leogane, Katleen Felix, New Haiti, Teach the World on-Line, Achilles Kids, Ecole De La Redemption, Benjamin Gilman, International YMCA, Deschapelles, Coopcab, World News
Jim Luce

Haiti needs hope -- and so many private initiatives doing so much could do even more -- with your support. There is so much hope for Haiti. Let's fund it.

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Fighting Cholera While OCHA Says 400,000 At Risk

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Artibonite, Mirebalais, Partners in Health, Valerie Amos, Who, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Cholera, Cholera Death Toll, Un, Benefits of Breastfeeding, Paho, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Cholera Treatment Center in Mirebalais, Haiti. Photo Courtesy Andre Paultre On Monday the Haitian Ministry of Health (MSPP) reported 1,523 deaths ...

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Being Thankful, Being Giving

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Hyman MD, American Red Cross, Ultrawellness, Partners in Health, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Thanksgiving 2010, Impact News
Mark Hyman, MD

As we all settle into the warmth of our families and communities over Thanksgiving, my heart, my thoughts and my prayers take me back to Haiti.

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The F Word: Haiti's Hurricane Struggles

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuild, Partners in Health, Laura Flanders, Hurricane Tomas, Grittv, Cholera, Earthquake, Storm, Grit Tv, Haiti, Paul Farmer, Leogane, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Turning away from the U.S. elections for a moment, we can find plenty of places suffering not from a hurricane of campaign cash, but from actual hurri...

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Cholera in Haiti: "a disease of poverty"

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Artibonite, Epidemics, Partners in Health, Cholera, Port-Au-Prince, Drinking Water, Haiti, Sanitation, Lafiteau, World News
Crossover Dreams

Cholera is spread through the ingestion of contaminated water. Photo: United Nations By Peter Costantini Ansel Herz has filed three stories so far...

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Haiti Cholera Outbreak: How You Can Help

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Haiti Cholera, Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, Medicins Sans Frontieres, Impact News

In Haiti, a country still reeling from January's devastating earthquake, the combination of a lack of infrastructure and overwhelming poverty have lef...

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CGI 2010: Cancer -- the Developing World's 'Time Bomb'

Jane Wales | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cancer, Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Developing World, Clinton Global Initiative, Partners in Health, Princess Dina Mired, Paul Farmer, Felicia Knaul, Cgi, Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, Health, Vaccinenewsdaily, Impact News
Jane Wales

Of all the pressing issues confronting the developing world, cancer gets comparatively short shrift. And yet, a majority of new cancer diagnoses come from developing countries.

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Financing Global Health Aid and Protecting Wall Street: Enact a Financial Speculation Tax

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antiretroviral Drugs, Global Health, Doctors Without Borders, Africa, HIV Prevention, Lantos-Hyde Act, Anand Reddi, Maternal Health, Barack Obama, Currency Tax, HIV/AIDS, Pepfar, Financial Speculation Tax, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Partners in Health, Obama Global Health Initiative, Global Health Initiative, Maternal and Child Health, Medecins Sans Frontieres, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Politics News, Pete Stark, World News, Nelson Mandela, Business News, World News
Anand Reddi

A 0.005% financial speculation tax -- a "pinprick" for international banks -- would be an important stream of revenue for domestic and global development initiatives.

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For Partners in Health, Good Health Means Justice and Rights

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Partners in Health, Haiti Aid, Health Care, Help Haiti, World News
Beverly Bell

With the motto "Providing a preferential option for the poor in health care," Partners in Health offers an unusual model of health care provision. Its...

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Haitian Hospitals Awash With Supplies, Struggle to Pay Staff (Part 2)

Sarah Ryley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adventiste, Haiti Relief, Loma Linda University, Haiti Earthquake, Partners in Health, Red Cross, International Red Cross, American Red Cross, Hopital Adventiste, Unified for Global Healing, Haiti, World News
Sarah Ryley

Organizations seem unwilling to donate the one thing Haitian hospitals say they desperately need: Money that can be spent at their discretion, for things like salaries, fuel for the generator, and oxygen.

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Truth and Reconciliation: President Obama's Global Health Initiative and HIV/AIDS -- Raising the Bar

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Lantos-Hyde Act, Ezekiel Emanuel, Tom Coburn, Pepfar, Maternal and Child Health, Antiretroviral Drugs, Partners in Health, Desmond Tutu, Medecins Sans Frontieres, International AIDS Conference 2010, Doctors Without Borders, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Obama Global Health Initiative, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President George W. Bush, Bill Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Global Health, Africa, Maternal Health, Politics, World Health Organization, Vienna Aids Conference, President Barack Obama, Global Health Initiative, Anand Reddi, New York Times, University of Colorado School of Medicine, World News
Anand Reddi

Eradication of HIV is possible if the world community remains fully committed to funding cost-effective antiretroviral treatment initiatives. Treating our way out is indeed possible.

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United States Global Health Policy: HIV/AIDS Treatment Funding At Risk Under President Obama

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, International AIDS Conference, World Health Organization, Vienna Aids Conference, Pepfar, Ezekiel Emanuel, Maternal Health, Antiretroviral Drugs, HIV Prevention, Lantos-Hyde Act, Desmond Tutu, International AIDS Conference 2010, Doctors Without Borders, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Partners in Health, Obama Global Health Initiative, Maternal and Child Health, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President George W. Bush, Bill Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Politics, Africa, President Barack Obama, Global Health Initiative, Anand Reddi, University of Colorado School of Medicine, New York Times, World News
Anand Reddi

The diminishing commitment by the G8 towards HIV/AIDS treatment funding is a major topic at the Vienna AIDS conference. Sadly, the perception that HIV/AIDS is no longer an emergency is misinformed.

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Promises, Promises -- What It Will Take to Rebuild Haiti

Dr. Joia Mukherjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Haiti Earthquake, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, United Nations, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Paul Farmer Haiti Earthquake, World News
Dr. Joia Mukherjee

Overall, March 31 was a very good day for Haiti, with one very big caveat: now pledges and principles have to be translated into concrete, effective, and sustained action.

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Fonkoze Helps Rebuild Haiti through Microfinance Following Earthquake

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Department of Defense, Earthquake, Partners in Health, Micro-Life Insurance, Grameen Foundation, Anne Hastings, United Nations, Ngo, U.S. Military, Moneygram, Port-Au-Prince, Fondasyon Kole Zepol, Miami, Whole Foods Market, Multilateral Investment Fund, Microfinance, Inter-American Development Bank, Haiti, Fonkoze, Alex Counts, Fonkoze Financial Services, Homestead Air Force Base, Alternative Insurance Company, Cam, Whole Planet Foundation, Poverty, City National Bank of New Jersey, Usaid, U.S. State Department, Cgap, Oikocredit, Meda, Unitransfer, World News
Jim Luce

Unprecedented Collaboration Assists the Most Vulnerable In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, January 23, an unprecedented joint NGO-military operation ...

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Sharing Strength and Sowing Seeds

Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gabriel London, Yele Haiti, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Partners in Health, Bob Kerrey, Gonaives, Trees for the Future, Timberland, Cat Cora, Billy Shore, Haiti, Reforestation, Wyclef Jean, Haitiblog, World News
Jeffrey B. Swartz

I traveled to Haiti a few weeks ago for the second time since January's earthquake. I'm not so naive that I thought I'd find miraculous progress had ...

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Hunger and Homelessness in Haiti, Four Months on

Gabriel London | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yele Haiti, Top Chef Cat Cora, Partners in Health, Haiti Earthquake, United Nations, Chefs for Humanity, Clinton Foundation, Cat Cora, Share Our Strength, World Food Programme, Haiti Relief Efforts, Cite Soleil, Haiti, Wyclef Jean, Timberland, Haitiblog, World News
Gabriel London

2010-05-11-HaitiFaminecopy.jpg The scale of the ongoing disaster is hard to convey. Port-au-Prince is still entirely run on generators; families still live in makeshift tent cities. This is life in Haiti now.

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