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Apply for a summer internship with PIH!
Every year, the Institute for Health and Social Justice at Partners In Health hosts a summer internship program for a select number of students and professionals early in their careers who are interested in learning about current issues in health and social justice. Find out more about the internships and how to apply.
Simple ways to support Partners In Health
Find out how you can support PIH's programs by simply surfing the internet, sending an email, or shopping for gifts.
Apply for the Global Health Corps
The Global Health Corp works to connect young leaders with organizations (including PIH) that promote global health equity on the front lines. Find out more about these exciting fellowships and how to apply.
Partners In Health Model Online
Want to know what makes PIH tick? The
Partners In Health Model Online (PIHMO) is a “knowledge resource” that
showcases how PIH operates, the tools and resources we use, and how
the principles of community-based care and solidarity form the core
of what we do. We also invite
you to join discussions and share experiences with others
who are engaged in similar work on GHDonline,
the web-based "communities of practice" of our partner, Global
Health Delivery.
What's new at PIH?
Find out by subscribing to our e-Bulletin! This free electronic newsletter will be emailed to you once a month and will keep you updated on recent PIH projects, events, and general global health news. Read past issues
PIH rated top charity for saving lives
PIH has been ranked as one of the top three charities for saving lives reliably
and cost-effectively by www.givewell.net.
The charity research group, founded by two 26-year-old former Wall Street professionals,
cited PIH as "the 'lowest-risk' charity available" because "its
model is extremely logical and tangible, and we have high confidence in it."
Calling all students
If you would like to know more about what other
students are doing to make a difference in their communities and around the
world, join the Students for PIH listserv on lists.riseup.net. 
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PIH/Zanmi Lasante staff set up a makeshift triage center in a church in Cange to handle patients streaming in from Port-au-Prince. Read updates about our work.
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A major earthquake centered just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince has devastated the country. Partners in Health and its partner organization Zanmi Lasante have worked in Haiti for nearly twenty-five years, and today is one of the largest non-governmental health care providers in the country.
As so many feel the helplessness of unfolding events, and knowing that the next few days are essential to saving lives, we urge you to support our efforts. We are unique in what we have to offer, but our ability to continue to be effective depends on you. Please donate now so that we can continue and even expand our already significant efforts.
For up to the minute details of our activities, what you can do to help, please visit our new website www.standwithhaiti.org.
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Webcast launches ACT.PIH.ORG, a new online community for PIH supporters
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On the evening of November 12, author Tracy Kidder and Dr. David Walton, of Partners In Health's project in Haiti, sat down for discussion of global health with Amherst College faculty and students, as well as hundreds of PIH supporters from across the U.S. and world.
The webcast was the first event to bring together
a community of PIH supporters online for an interactive event.
Use the links to right to watch a recording of the discussion or visit http://act.pih.org for more information on how to get involved. 
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Operation: operating room
Last month, 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. The operating suite, funded by Deerfield Partners, is the latest achievement for Zanmi Lasante (PIH's partner organization in Haiti) and its program to bring life-saving surgical services to the poorest communities in Haiti. Read more.
Twins
Everyone called them twins. They had the same birthday, afterall. But on one afternoon, the gulf between Beverly Hills and the hills of Malawi—and the experiences of those born in the United States from their peers in poor countries—was revealed in shocking contrast.
Read more
PIH mourns Josue Augustin, "a hero and an angel"
Dr. Josue Augustin, the director of surgery for PIH's partner organization in Haiti, Zanmi Lasante (ZL), was killed on August 31. Reeling from the loss, the PIH family remains committed to Josue's life work of building a surgical program to provide life-saving operations to some of the poorest communities in the world and to working with authorities to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice. Read more.
Two inspiring books by Tracy Kidder now out on bookshelves!
Two new books by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder are now in bookstores. An updated edition of the best-selling Mountains Beyond Mountains tells the story of Paul Farmer and Partners In Health, including recent developments in a brand new epilogue. In Strength in What Remains, Kidder brings readers along on the remarkable journey of Deo, a young man who narrowly escaped genocide in Burundi and lived homeless in New York City before completing his education and returning to build a health clinic for the poor in his home village.
PIH
Co-founder Paul Farmer named as the UN's Deputy
Special Envoy for Haiti
Former President Bill Clinton recently appointed PIH
co-founder Paul Farmer as Deputy Special Envoy for
Haiti. This honorary role
permit him to continue his teaching and clinical
roles at Harvard and to serve the people of Haiti, said PIH Executive Director Ophelia Dahl in a statement to supporters. "Paul
and others on our team are enthusiastic about working
alongside President Clinton and other friends of
Haiti to advance economic development there and
to assist the Haitian government in implementing
its priorities," said Dahl. "
This is wonderful news for Haiti
and for all of us. After 25 years of
working hand in hand with our Haitian colleagues
and partners, we are confident that President Clinton's
mandate will bring much needed support and investment
to the courageous people of Haiti." Read the UN
press release.
PIH news archive
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Here and Now
Listen to Ophelia Dahl discuss the earthquake on NPR's Here and Now.
Learning about health reform from Haiti and Peru
With all this talk about health care reform, the US can learn valuable lessons from Haiti and Peru about how to effectively bring health care to the most marginalized patients. Heidi Behforouz, director of the Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT) project (a PIH sister project based in Boston) explains how in a Boston Globe op-ed.
An
express line
for AIDS treatment
"Have you ever waited in line for a long time for something you didn’t just
want but desperately needed? Have you ever faced the prospect of dying in
line while you waited?" ask PIH Advocacy and Policy Director Donna Barry
and Brook K. Baker of Health GAP in a recent Boston
Globe op-ed. With 10 million HIV patients waiting to receive life-saving
drugs, what we need now
is bold leadership and fulfilled promises from Washington to increase AIDS
funding and continue saving lives. Read
more.
Children should be afforded greater care, protection... and forgiveness?
"The United States is currently the only country in the world that sentences minors who commit crimes to life in prison without any hope for parole," PIH co-founder Paul Farmer wrote in a recent Boston Globe op-ed. The article was published on Nov. 9, the day that PIH board member Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative argued before the US Supreme Court that life-without-parole sentences imposed on young adolescents are unconstitutional. Read Paul's full piece.
PBS zooms in on
PIH's work in Rwanda
A recent episode of NOW on PBS featured PIH's work with the government of Rwanda, the Clinton Foundation, and local rural communities to bring health care to those most in need. Watch now.
PIH co-founders discuss Mountains Beyond Mountains
Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and Ophelia Dahl recently discussed Tracy Kidder's bestselling book Mountains Beyond Mountains with first-year students at Dartmouth College. Watch the video.
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