Partners In Health

Dr. Paul Farmer (right) and Dr. Sriram Shamasunder on the Butaro hospital campus in Rwanda on Feb. 17. Farmer died on Feb. 21.

Health & Safety

With love and tears: My first and last memories of Dr. Paul Farmer

2:07pm February 22, 2022

by Sriram Shamasunder

Dr. Sriram Shamasunder just spent a week in Rwanda at the university co-founded by Paul Farmer — and witnessed the passion and compassion of this global health champion days before his untimely death.

Dr. Paul Farmer, photographed in 2017 at a screening of a film about his life's work, Bending the Arc.

Health & Safety

Global health champion Dr. Paul Farmer has died

7:11pm February 21, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

Known for his efforts to improve global health and as the founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health, Farmer died in Rwanda at age 62.

People line up to receive a rapid COVID-19 test in an agricultural community in Immokalee, Fla., where the poverty rate is over 40%. Partners in Health is working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to test, educate and vaccinate the community during

Health & Safety

Rich nation, unequal health care: Why a charity that's helped Haiti is aiding the U.S.

7:01am December 18, 2021

by Maria Godoy

The charity Partners in Health aims to improve health services in lower income places like Haiti and Rwanda. Now it's setting up a permanent presence in the U.S. with an $11 million federal grant.

An N95 respirator — a critical piece of personal protective equipment. The U.S. is now restricting the ability of aid groups abroad to use American funds to buy PPE.

The U.S. Is Giving Vast Sums Of Money To Fight COVID-19 Abroad. But There's A Catch

4:04pm May 13, 2020

by Malaka Gharib

Aid groups are frustrated by a new restriction on using U.S. funds to buy personal protective equipment like masks and gloves. The U.S. says it's a way to ensure there's enough PPE for domestic use.

Computer illustration of malignant B-cell lymphocytes seen in Burkitt's lymphoma, the most common childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa.

How To Bring Cancer Care To The World's Poorest Children

11:44am July 26, 2019

by Patrick Adams

For children in developing countries, cancer care is largely out of reach. But new research is challenging assumptions that it's too costly and complicated.

Alicia Keys attends the 2014 Social Good Summit, a conference examining the impact of technology and new media on social good initiatives around the world on Sept. 21 in New York City.

Meet The Global Groups That Alicia Keys Got Naked For

8:03pm September 29, 2014

by Eleanor Klibanoff

The Grammy-winning singer posed in the nude (in a G-rated way) to draw attention to a dozen charities. Here's a look at the goals of the global players — and what they'd do if money were no object.

Arts

UNCSA Students Reach Orphans in Haiti Through Global Arts

6:08pm August 15, 2013

For many years, University of North Carolina School of the Arts Social Studies teacher, Jonathan Milner, has led students to remote parts of the world. They have traveled to places like Nairobi, Kenya where he and his students fed AIDS orphaned infants and children.

Milner's most recent trip was a result of his previous work with Partners in Health, a medical advocacy group out of Boston. Last December Jonathan Milner, his wife Cary Clifford, and their nine year old son, Owen, traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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