Recent media coverage on PIH’s work in Haiti
Posted on 01/22/10View recent coverage of PIH's earthquake relief efforts Haiti from a variety of media outlets:
Recovering the Dead in Haiti (New York Times, LENS blog, 6/11/2010)
New York Times LENS blogger Angel Franco shares the story of one Haitian man's efforts to recover the bodies of the earthquake victims in his community.
Deadline Nears For Haitians' Deportation Reprieve (Associated Press, 6/11/2010)
The deadline for Haitians in the U.S. to apply for temporary protected status is July 20, 2010; TPS will allow Haitians to stay legally for eighteen months.
Haiti: Solidarity, not charity, needed (Green Left, 6/6/2010)
Montreal-based nurse Scott Weinstein talks about his impressions of PIH's work in Haiti after returning from his stint as a medical volunteer in Port-au-Prince.
U.S. Troops Withdraw From Haiti (NPR, 6/3/2010)
Host Michel Martin talks with David Harland of the United Nations Peacekeeping Department about where the recovery effort stands now in Haiti.
The immense human tragedy 700 miles from Miami (Psychology Today, 5/28/2010)
Dr. Dennis Rosen reflects on his nine days as a volunteer at HUEH, Hôpital Universitaire d'État d'Haïti.
Mental health needs of quake survivors pose risks to Haiti's recovery (Catholic News Service, 5/27/2010)
"'Vulnerable people before Jan. 12 have become more fragile, and their conditions have worsened,' said Father Eddy Eustache, a Haitian priest who directs mental health and psychosocial services for Partners in Health in Haiti. In a May 26 e-mail message to Catholic News Service, he responded to questions about his work."
Getting Their Goat: Annette LaMontagne and Rialto's Jody Adams are partners... in health (Weekly Dig, 5/25/2010)
"Back in Cambridge, at the weekly Top Chef viewing party held in Rialto's lounge, Annette LaMontagne and the McCormacks were in the audience to witness Adams' defeat. LaMontagne, who did a brief stint in culinary school, saw Adams' struggles with the goat, a very common ingredient in Haitian cuisine, and felt for the chef. Through the McCormacks, she offered to teach Adams how to prepare the dish that had been her public peccadillo."
Suffolk grads urged ‘to muster good will’ (Boston Globe, 5/24/2010)
"'More than half of all American households contributed to relief efforts in one way or another,’ Farmer, cofounder of Partners in Health in Boston and a United Nations deputy envoy to Haiti, told 1,251 graduates yesterday afternoon at Suffolk University’s commencement. 'That is to me an astounding reminder of the good will we can muster for one another.'"
Relief Organizations Help Haitians Fight Hunger (PBS NewsHour, 5/11/2010)
In the second of two reports about the role of relief organizations to rebuild Haiti, Dave Iverson of KQED San Francisco explores two Haitian-led aid groups that are helping to feed the hungry after the devastating earthquake.
Nurse will travel to Haiti for quake relief (5/8/2010)
"Yeah, I am excited about going [to Haiti]," Emily Hall said Thursday in the living room of her parents' home in Front Royal. "I think I'm apprehensive since I just got back from Rwanda and I haven't totally adjusted back."
Paul Farmer Is Revolutionizing Medicine (Daily Beast, 5/6/2010)
"I traveled quite a lot with Paul Farmer, and some of those trips were, collectively, like a harrowing of hell for me—to the famished, deforested Central Plateau of Haiti; to a periurban slum outside Lima, Peru, which, as the residents say, looks like the surface of the moon; to Moscow’s Central Prison, where what the doctors described as an “uncrowded cell” contained 50 patients coughing up drug-resistant TB bacilli."
Interview with Top Chef Masters Contestant Jody Adams (DailyFork.com, 5/5/2010)
"But I really hope my appearance garners some extra attention for Partners In Health, the charity I'm cooking for. Even though the media has moved on, the people of Haiti are still suffering, they still need help and PIH's "STAND WITH HAITI" campaign still needs to be funded."
Bjork DJs in Brooklyn (New York Times ArtsBeat Blog, 5/3/2010)
"‘Bjork plays a parking garage’ sounds like a dreamy Michel Gondry video pitch, but this weekend, it was a sweaty reality. Above the Auto Parts is an accurately named space: literally above an auto parts store in Bushwick, Brooklyn, it is a parking garage for much of the week that’s lately doubled as a DIY club. Bjork liked it enough to DJ a show there on Sunday night, a benefit for the Haiti relief group Partners in Health."
RHCI therapist’s healing mission (4/30/2010)
“These are incredibly tough people,” Kenneway said. “When you see the conditions they’re living in, the fact that any of them are surviving is remarkable.”
Harry Potter Goes To Haiti (4/29/2010)
"Today the Harry Potter Alliance – in conjunction with Partners in Health – sends its fourth planeload of relief supplies to Haiti since the January earthquake."
Help to Haiti "Not Good Enough" (CBS Evening News, 4/21/2010)
Katie Couric returned to Haiti three months after the earthquake. She was given a tour by Partners In Health Clinical Director, Dr. Louise Ivers.
Six weeks in Haiti (Washington Post, 4/16/2010)
"Questions such as "How was Haiti?" or "How was your trip?" make it sound as though I was on vacation. But I was not on vacation in Haiti, so the usual answers -- great, fine or even okay -- are just not appropriate."
Small Miracles In Haiti (CBS News, 4/15/2010)
"But I couldn't help marveling over the small miracle PIH has created in the midst of a nightmare."
In The World: Better wound treatment for all (MIT News, 4/14/2010)
"A streamlined version of 'negative-pressure' wound therapy is put to the test in Haiti — and could have 'enormous potential' across the developing world."
Skoll 10: Don't let social entrepreneur die in vain (Social Enterprise, 4/14/2010)
"The head of social enterprise Partners in Health tonight made a dramatic, and personal, appeal to social entrepreneurs to work together to rebuild Haiti."
'That Could Have Been Me,' Says Nurse Returning To Haiti (WCVB Boston, 4/12/2010)
"A local nurse who grew up in Haiti working as a translator for American doctors who volunteered in Haitian medical clinics has now returned to her homeland on her second medical mission in the wake of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake."
Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Medical Director of Partners in Health, on Haiti, why aid is often undemocratic, practical and low-tech AIDs treatment, socialism and passion (The Mac Weekly, 4/9/2010)
"What I am interested in, especially speaking to students, is we need a long-term movement in solidarity and support with Haiti because it can't be dependent on a media snapshot."
Kim highlights global health past (The Dartmouth, 4/8/2010)
"We have to build into the liberal arts education that taking on some of our complex organizational challenges are the most important of all.”
Promises, Promises -- What It Will Take to Rebuild Haiti (Huffington Post, 4/7/2010)
"In the streets and resettlement camps of Port-au-Prince, the promises and rhetoric were greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism."
A Haiti earthquake victim gets a chance to walk again (Boston Globe, 4/2/2010)
"Andrew Marx, a spokesman for Partners in Health, which provides medical care and social services to impoverished countries, said the organization has brought 20 Haitian earthquake victims to this country for medical treatment and helped bring over more than 10 other patients."
How can donors aid quake-hit Haiti? (BBC News, 3/31/2010)
"One is the US charity Partners In Health (PIH), which has 10 clinics and hospitals in Haiti. They are run jointly by the health ministry and are staffed with Haitian doctors and nurses."
Solar Power Brings Light to Quake-Darkened Haiti (National Geographic, 3/31/2010)
"With Haiti’s infrastructure in tatters, and funds being raised around the world, many believe it is an ideal time to deploy new power for Haiti. For example, last summer, the nonprofit Partners In Health successfully had a solar system installed in its clinic in Boucan Carré, Haiti."
A Haitian Family’s Hope Grows at a Boston Hospital (New York Times, 3/30/2010)
"Partners in Health filed for humanitarian parole for Ms. Joacin and Mr. Coffy’s father, Reserve Coffy, to travel to Boston."
The Quake (PBS Frontline, 3/30/2010)
Watch the entire Frontline episode."The Quake explores the recent history of aid efforts in Haiti and the prospects for real change, and draws on interviews with, among others, former President Bill Clinton, special envoy to Haiti; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Dr. Paul Farmer, deputy special envoy to Haiti and co-founder of Partners in Health."
After A Week Off, Haiti Seems More Dire (Huffington Post, 3/26/2010)
"The great thing (among many) about PIH and Miami folks is that their people, while obviously deeply skilled and experienced, exude a palpable sense of commitment and spirit and compassion."
Pals reunited in struggle to walk again (MSNBC, 3/24/2010)
Two long-time friends reunite in the aftermath of the earthquake. "The pair found each other again at Zanmi Lasante, a small hospital in the rugged mountains of Cange, nearly 40 miles from Port-au-Prince."
In Haiti, Mental Health System Is in Collapse (New York Times, 3/19/2010)
Care-givers work to provide mental health care in the aftermath of the earthquake.
The next best thing to being there (Boston Globe, 3/16/2010)
"So when those medical workers decamp for Haiti -- a country whose long-hobbled health system was brought to its knees by the Jan. 12 earthquake -- it can be a shock."
Haiti copes with a nightmare (Socialist Worker, 3/16/2010)
"The first thing I saw was signs that said "We need help, water, medicine," written on scraps of metal or whatever people could find--in Creole, French and sometimes English."
Beth Israel Deaconess-Needham nurse returns from Haiti trip (Wicked Local Needham, 3/14/2010)
“Once is not enough for Tamara Dupoux Lestage, a nurse at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Needham. After returning from her native Haiti, where she assisted those devastated by the earthquake, Lestage has every intention of going back.”
MTV News Visits Haiti To Track 'Hope For Haiti Now' Donations (MTV News, 3/11/2010)
"MTV News' Sway traveled to Haiti to follow a mission from Partners in Health, which is providing crucially needed food, water and medical supplies to the millions of Haitians displaced by the 7.0 earthquake thanks to an $8 million grant from "Hope for Haiti Now."
Memories of Haiti (Lexington Minuteman, 3/11/2010)
"As we drove through Port au Prince it seemed so surreal. There was so much destruction and devastation you did not know where to focus your eyes."
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With them all the way (Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/11/2010)
"Naomi Rosenberg was washing dishes in her Center City apartment when she got a text message from a friend at Partners in Health, the international medical-aid organization she worked for in Haiti."
Point of view: E-mail from the Haitian disaster (Riverdale Press, 3/11/2010)
"We had four aftershocks in the past 24 hours — everyone is really shaken up about this. But life goes on…"
HAITI: Risk and treatment amid the rubble (IRIN, 3/10/2010)
"In the aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 magnitude quake, one of the Caribbean's largest antiretroviral (ARV) programmes is struggling to resurrect itself from the rubble."
Big choices, small strides (Boston Globe, 3/9/2010)
"Sannella is an occupational therapist by training, but she found that in a disaster zone you have to be other things."
Alice Yang (NC) on Partners in Health (The Harbus, 3/9/2010)
"At the office, we used to joke about the Harvard-to-Haiti commute - a jarring contrast of power and privilege at one end, and poverty and privation at the other. There is now an opportunity for all of us to go on that journey."
Give Haiti control over its recovery (Boston Globe, 3/8/2010)
"While Haitian resilience has been duly recognized around the world, few appear to be interested in talking to Haitians about how to rebuild their communities and how the billions likely to be pledged to their country will be used."
Partners ups health initiatives in Haiti (Boston Herald, 3/6/2010)
"Partners in Health, which has worked in rural Haiti for more than 20 years, has a three-year recovery plan with a fund-raising goal of $125 million, of which it has raised about half."
Shelter deteriorates for thousands in Haiti as heavy rains continue (Free Speech Radio News, 3/5/2010)
“So what little people have is now soaked, they’re sleeping in the rain and the makeshift shelters are already breaking down and dissolving and the conditions for these homeless and displaced people are absolutely inhuman and getting worse every single day."
Students gather for conference on global health and social justice; UN Haiti envoy will speak (Associated Press, 3/5/2010)
"College students from around the country are gathering at Northwestern University for a conference on global health and social justice."
Humanitarian disaster continues unabated in Haiti (World Focus, 3/5/2010)
"Survivors of the Haitian earthquake need quick solutions that may not come in time for the punishing rainy season that starts in May."
Opportunity, optimism in Global Health Corps (San Francisco Chronicle, 3/1/2010)
"When first daughter Jenna Bush attended a Bay Area AIDS summit hosted by Google.org two years ago, some skeptics doubted it would amount to more than a photo op."
Second opinions, anywhere (Boston Globe 3/1/2010)
"Collaboration hopes to link doctors in developing countries to a digital network of support, expertise.
Lima Women Find Opportunity in Knitting Circle (PBS Newshour, 2/26/2010)
"Each afternoon, in the Santa Rosa slum built into the steep hillside surrounding Lima, a group of 15 women meet to knit."
Big Benefit for Haiti on Sunday: 'Kampe ave’m' means coming together at GSU (Boston University Today, 2/25/2010)
“'We figure we’ll have at least 5,000 people there.'"
'Law Hoos for Haiti' Aim to Raise $12,000 (UVaToday, 2/25/2010)
"Students have raised about $9,000 so far, Rosenthal said. The proceeds will go to Partners in Health, a nonprofit that has been operating in Haiti for about 25 years, according to third-year law student Stephen Wendell."
Giving Donations that Transform Haiti (CBS News, 2/24/2010)
"Haiti has already begun to fade from the headlines. But for individual donors, the real opportunity to have impact has just begun."
Quake Has Haiti Relying on Agricultural Roots (Wall Street Journal, 2/23/2010)
"An agricultural program that helped inch people out of poverty and hunger in this village about 25 miles north of Port-au-Prince is racing to feed thousands who flocked here after the earthquake."
Greenville woman says quake's impact 'terrifying' (The Greenville News, 2/21/2010)
“We knew it was bad, but had no idea the extent of it,” she recalled. “We had no television or anything. And nothing was working, no cell phones, no telephones. It was terrifying.”
A humanitarian’s family brings him home (The Columbian, 2/21/2010)
"In the prime of his life, Walt Ratterman dived headlong into adventure that would carry him around the globe."
Book Read kicks off with health care discussion (WMU News, 2/25/2010)
"In "Mountains Beyond Mountains," Kidder chronicles the ways in which Farmer pursues his calling--to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most--from Harvard to Peru, Cuba, Russia and Haiti."
Haiti recovery needs 'accompaniment,' Kidder says (Boston Globe, 2/18/2010)
"Working with Haitians in the spirit called "accompaniment" is the reason for Partners In Health's success in the impoverished country, according to Kidder, who serves on the group's development committee."
Helping In Haiti: Questions & Answers (WBUR.org, 2/18/2010)
A Q&A from WBUR which highlights PIH’s ongoing work in Haiti
Let Haitians take charge of their destinies (rabble.ca, 2/17/2010)
"Joia Mukherjee of Partners in Health, one of the most formidable NGOs currently working in Haiti, says that the boycott of government-to-government aid simply fuels Haiti's inability to care for itself, and therefore ideas of corruption and unaccountability."
Nearly $37K raised for Haiti (Harvard Gazette, 2/16/2010)
"Harvard College students raised almost $37,000 at their sold-out benefit show at Sanders Theatre."
Uncertain Ground: Haiti's Earthquake and its Aftermath (Huffington Post, 2/15/2010)
"Rehabilitating the deteriorating state-run General Hospital, Partners in Health teamed up with the Haitian government and even the U.S. military to provide desperately needed emergency medical aid."
Haitian art sale: Small fundraiser can make a big difference (Minneapolis Post, 2/12/2010)
"Organizers of last Friday's Haitian art sale at St. James Episcopal Church in Minneapolis say they hope that people realize it's not only the amount of money raised, but the way it's used that can make a big difference in Haiti's recovery."
In Haiti, haves and have nots (Boston Globe, White Coat Notes Blog, 2/12/2010)
Fourth dispatch from Dr. Christian Arbelaez: "I see an 11 year old boy on a donkey carrying a load on each side. I think about how lucky my children are in contrast to the hardships that I am seeing."
Wells: Why only Haitians can cure Haiti (The Toronto Star, 2/11/2010)
"Zanmi Lasante [PIH] today has one of the best reps in Haiti, with nine sites and plans for two more."
Partners In Health rock for Haiti (The Daily Free Press, 2/11/2010)
"On Wednesday, Feb. 3, Jillian Santella’s entertainment blog One In A Million Media put on Kem Pa Sote, a benefit for Partners in Health, a Boston-based Haitian relief program. The show boasted several well-known local bands and DJs."
Donna Karan, Mary J. Blige, and Andre Harrell: For the Love of Haiti (Huffington Post, 2/11/2010)
"The evening, headlined by Mary J. Blige at the Urban Zen Center, with an after-party featuring Wyclef Jean at the Standard Hotel, raised money to meet the urgent need for tents in Haiti which will be distributed by three organizations with a strong history of commitment to effective service there -- Habitats for Humanity, Partners in Health, and Yelé Haiti."
Haiti fund in Boston raises $2 million (Updated) (Boston Globe, 2/11/2010)
"Today, the Boston Foundation said that more than 1,000 donors have chipped in and matched the original $1 million from the Ansaras -- passing the $2 million goal. And the organizers say they aren't stopping there."
University stands up for Haiti with benefit concert (The Daily Collegian, 2/11/2010)
"Tonight’s concert is part of a larger campaign by the University [of Massachusetts] to mobilize the campus in support of the Haiti relief effort. The Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life and the International Programs Office (IPO), as well as other campus organizations, are all working together to coordinate fund raising events and collect donations."
Dartmouth To Accept Haitian Students (VPR News, 2/9/2010)
"[Dartmouth President] Kim says the request to host the students in Hanover came from Dr. Paul Farmer and former President Bill Clinton."
West Michigan orthopedic surgeons gave own blood as they worked to save patients injured in Haiti earthquake (The Grand Rapids Press, 2/9/2010)
"Golladay was the first in the group to reach Haiti. After weighing the options, Partners in Health decided to set up operations at a rural mission clinic established by an Ohio family. It had two small operating rooms, with limited supplies and equipment."
Hope For Haiti Now Distributes First $35 Million To Relief Efforts (MTV.com, 2/8/2010)
"Partners in Health: $8 million to provide emergency medical assistance and supplies, strengthen the public health system, and provide rehabilitation, social support and economic assistance to survivors."
Giving back, immediately (Boston Globe, 2/8/2010)
Arbelaez interview: "The initial response from my 12-year-old was, ‘Wow, you’re going to get to go and help.’ That was really just wonderful for me. Then out of that grew, we need to fund-raise and how can we help?’’'
Relief gaps spread as Haitians flee capital (USA Today, 2/7/2010)
"'The aid hasn't gotten here," said Gillaine Warne, an agronomist with Partners in Health."
Arcade Fire Gives More to Haiti (Montreal Gazette, 2/6/2010)
"Nearly a month after they implored fans to donate generously to reconstruction efforts in Haiti, Montreal indie-rock idols Arcade Fire have licensed Wake Up, from their debut album, Funeral, to the NFL, for airing during Super Bowl XLIV tomorrow, with all proceeds from the licensing to benefit Partners In Health."
Stanford Students to Dance the Night Away for a Good Cause (San Jose Mercury News, 2/5/2010)
"Stanford Dance Marathon, a student-run organization, will hold its sixth annual dance-a-thon to help support Partners In Health's relief efforts in Haiti and Bay Positives' work with young people who have HIV/AIDS."
Hoping to Rebuild a Better Haiti (Boston Globe, 2/5/2010)
"Dr. Christian Arbelaez, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has gone to Haiti with a team that will work with Partners In Health in St. Marc to help victims of last month's earthquake. Here is his first dispatch."
PIH: Community Health Workers Can Help Rebuild Haiti (NPR, 2/4/2010)
"Partners In Health (PIH) is not a disaster relief organization. But PIH’s deep roots in Haiti allowed PIH to respond more quickly to provide emergency medical care following the earthquake on January 12 than most disaster-relief organizations."
Surgeons' Dispatch from Cange, Haiti (New England Journal of Medicine, 2/3/2010)
"Thanks to the work of Boston-based Partners In Health (PIH) and its Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante (ZL), medical care in Haiti has improved over the past 25 years. The Cange free clinic, which is 58 km from Port-au-Prince, opened in the mid-1980s, originally focused on AIDS but has since evolved into a comprehensive hospital complex, which is now linked to a network of 10 hospitals and clinics in the region."
Coordinating and Prioritizing Aid in Haiti (New England Journal of Medicine, 2/3/2010)
"Now that there are many disaster-relief organizations on the ground in Haiti, it is critical that we coordinate efforts, both during this acute phase of the response and as we move forward. There is still an overwhelming number of patients who require advanced orthopedic care. These patients must be identified quickly and transported safely to the numerous operating rooms now in place in field hospitals. Lives and limbs are being lost with every bottleneck in the flow of aid — a major hitch being our limited ability to move patients."
Pasta Dinner Raises $2.5K for Haiti (The Daily Collegian, 2/2/2010)
"[Alain] Bonny said usually Project Haiti holds the spaghetti dinner as a fundraiser to support their annual spring break trip to Haiti. However, with the earthquake that recently hit near Port-au-Prince, Bonny said the money raised would instead be given for Partners In Health and UNICEF."
"Breaking hearts open" in Haiti (Al Jazeera, 2/2/2010)
"I am returning to my family today with a very heavy heart and concern that is aching from my marrow or some place just as deep." Read an essay by PIH physician Evan Lyon here.
U.S. Doctors Say Haiti Stands out From Other Disasters (USA Today, 2/1/2010)
"'Not a single person I've met who works here did not lose someone in the earthquake,' anesthesiologist Michael Ashburn said from Haiti last week. His team from Penn Medicine was working at a Partners In Health hospital 40 miles outside of Port-au-Prince."
Haiti Crisis Prompts Fresh Talk of Pooling U.S. Relief Money (New York Times, 2/1/2010)
"Before the earthquake, the American Red Cross had 15 people in Haiti working on projects like malaria prevention and measles vaccines. Partners In Health, a charity based in Boston, had more than 700 doctors and nurses among a staff of almost 5,000 operating a hospital and multiple clinics in the country."
Brookline Film Event to Benefit Haiti (Boston Globe, 2/1/2010)
"Film director Jonathan Demme, who will be in town to receive the Coolidge Award from the Coolidge Corner Theatre, will introduce his film 'The Agronomist,' which focuses on Haitian human-rights activist Jean Dominique, on March 1 at 2 p.m. All proceeds from the event's $25 fee will benefit Partners In Health, a medical charity that has been working in Haiti for two decades."
US "To Resume" Haiti Airlifts (Al Jazeera, 2/1/2010)
"Before the latest announcement, the medical group Partners In Health transferred three critically-ill children to a hospital in Philadelphia on Sunday using a private jet to bypass the US military's order to suspend flights."
UB Medical Students Raise Funds for Haitian Relief (The Spectrum, 2/1/2010)
"Both Nweze and Buyea encouraged their clubs to contribute online to Partners In Health, a worldwide health organization originally established in Haiti in 1987. Today, the organization is working to provide relief to the earthquake victims. Although SNMA doesn’t have the means to travel to Haiti and directly help Partners In Health, Nweze is glad they have the opportunity to financially contribute to an organization that is so invested in bringing aid to Haiti."
Haitian Children Evacuated
to Phila. Hospitals (Philly.com, 1/31/2010)
"Undeterred by a suspension of the U.S. military's evacuation flights from Haiti, a medical-aid group used a private plane to bring three gravely ill children to Philadelphia yesterday for potentially lifesaving treatment."
Haitian Child Quake Victims Flown to U.S. for Care (Associated Press, 1/31/2010)
"A 5-year-old tetanus victim and a 14-month-old boy critically ill with pneumonia were sent to Children's Hospital in Philadelphia by the aid group Partners In Health, based in Boston."
"Luck" Leads Survivor of Haiti Quake to MGH (Boston Globe, 1/31/2010)
"With his condition worsening, colleagues brought him to a church in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cange, where doctors from the Boston-based Partners in Health had set up a medical clinic. He found a place on the floor and spent about a week there, getting the best treatment possible amid the chaos."
Heartbreak Among the Injured in Haiti (Milford Daily News, 1/31/2010)
"Labonte, a surgical technician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was going to Haiti with Partners In Health in mid-January on a medical mission to teach women about various health issues."
Unfinished Business (Boston Globe, 1/30/2010)
"For Dr. Selwyn Rogers, there was a precise moment when the agony of Haiti crystallized."
United Auburn Indian Community donates $50K for Haiti (Rocklin & Roseville Today, 1/30/2010)
"The United Auburn Indian Community announced today its donation of $50,000 to Partners In Health to assist victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti."
Desperation Grows in Haiti, Officials Worry About Sanitation as Well as Food, Water, Shelter (The Canadian Press, 1/30/2010)
"'I haven't seen sanitation at any of the camps,' said Dr. Louise Ivers, Haiti clinical director for Partners In Health. She fears 'a mass outbreak of measles, which would really be potentially devastating for a camp where there are 10,000 people living.'"
Haiti Is Again a Canvas for Approaches to Aid (New York Times, 1/30/2010)
"Dr. Paul Farmer, the deputy United Nations envoy and a founder of Partners In Health, which has been working in Haiti for more than 20 years, said that the long history of Washington overthrowing or blockading Haitian governments helped create the current dysfunctional government."
CU-Boulder Students Lead Campus Campaign to Raise $100,000 in Aid to Haiti (University of Colorado at Boulder--News Center, 1/29/2010)
"The group decided to support Partners In Health as the primary beneficiary of the campaign because they have been working in Haiti for more than 20 years and the health care model they created in Haiti has been praised and replicated in many countries around the world, according to Arnoldy."
U.S. Suspends Haitian Airlift in Cost Dispute (New York Times, 1/29/2010)
"A spokeswoman for Partners In Health, a Boston charity with doctors and nurses in Haiti, said the group had a backlog of patients, many with head, spine or pelvic injuries, who needed surgery that could not be performed there."
Dartmouth Team 3 Establishes Kidney Dialysis Center in Hinche, Haiti (Dartmouth news, 1/29/2010)
"[Brian] Remillard, MD, and critical care nurse Anne Mrozik, RN, have been performing kidney dialysis and working to establish the region's first-ever dialysis center at a Partners In Health (PIH) clinic in Hinche, located on Haiti’s Central Plateau."
Harvard for Haiti (Harvard Crimson, 1/29/2010)
"One organization that is working with the public sector and will continue to work in Haiti after all of the cameras and news media leave is Partners In Health, an NGO that has been operating in Haiti for 25 years delivering free medical care to the rural poor."
Team of Area Doctors, Nurses to Treat Haiti Quake Victims (Knoxnews.com, 1/29/2010)
"'As soon as the earthquake occurred we started contacting Partners in Health in Haiti to let them know that we were available to help. We wanted to put together a team, but knew there was so much chaos at the time that we didn't want to go down there without a connection,' [Dr. Dean] Mire said."
History May Be Haiti's Greatest Resource (Huffingtonpost.com, 1/28/2010)
"As Medical Director of Partners In Health and one of millions of people profoundly connected to the people of Haiti, I left my home and my three-year-old son in Boston on Wednesday morning for Port-au-Prince."
Wellesley's Sprague School Helps Haiti Earthquake Victims by Raising Thousands (Wickedlocal.com, 1/28/2010)
"Sprague School raised $4,436.00 from Sprague families, teachers, and faculty during a five-day fundraiser to help Haiti recover from the earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people. The money raised will be donated to Boston-based Partners In Health and its partnering organization, Zanmi Lasante, which, together, have worked in Haiti for nearly 25 years, and together represent one of the largest non-governmental health care providers in the country. "
Square Businesses Support Haiti (Harvard Crimson, 1/28/2010)
"In a similar effort, Upstairs on the Square-located across from OM-made between $25,000 and $28,000 during its day-long fundraiser on Monday. Proceeds from breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the restaurant were donated to Partners in Health, a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit that operates community-based clinics in Haiti and eight other countries, according to owner Mary-Catherine Deibel."
Kevin Riordan: Seeking peace for ailing Haiti (Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/28/2010)
Eighteen of us - 16 women and two men of various ages - arranged our mats on the gleaming bamboo floor. We had come to raise money for Partners in Health, which has provided medical care in Haiti for decades.
Ted Kennedy, Jr. gets front row seat for speech (USA Today, 1/28/2010)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's guest list for tonight's State of the Union speech includes Ted Kennedy, Jr., the son of the late senator who made universal health care "the cause of my life," as he once wrote.The younger Kennedy will be in the front row of the speaker's box with Paul Pelosi, Jr., the speaker's son; former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, her brother; Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley; Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty; Barry Rand, CEO, AARP; Janet Murguía, president and CEO, National Council of La Raza; Ben Jealous, president and CEO, NAACP; and Ophelia Dahl, executive director, Partners In Health.
Haiti's Political and Economic Earthquake (Huffingtonpost.com, 1/28/2010)
After Baby Doc seized power from his father, the enfant terrible was promptly visited by Nixon's Vice President, Spiro Agnew. According to Harvard physician and UN Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti Paul Farmer, in his 1994 book The Uses of Haiti, this visit put in place: "a new economic program guided by the United States, a program featuring private investments from the United States that would be drawn to Haiti by such incentives as no customs taxes, a minimum wage kept very low, the suppression of labor unions, and the right of American corporations to repatriate their profits".
Cancel Haiti's Debt (Huffingtonpost.com, 1/28/2010)
Dr. Joia Mukherjee, of Paul Farmer's famous group, Partners in Health, described what was needed during a conference call on Tuesday: The solutions to Haiti's problems will come from the Haitian people and from the government they choose, she said. "The greatest resource of Haiti is the indomitable spirit of the Haitian people," she said. But they must be unshackled from international debt.
Boston music to ease Haitian suffering (Boston Globe (Worldly Boston Blog), 1/28/2010)
At 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 31, the Longwood Symphony and the New England Conservatory are coming together for a concert at Jordan Hall to benefit Partners in Health, another remarkable Boston-based institution that has done non-stop work keeping earthquake victims alive in Haiti
Interfaith fundraiser will benefit Haitians (Boston Globe, 1/28/2010)
"Burlington clergy will sponsor 'Help for Haiti: a Program of Music and Prayer,’' an interfaith fund-raiser this Saturday that will give all proceeds to Boston-based Partners In Health."
Answers about New York's Response to Haiti's Earthquake (nytimes.com, 1/28/2010)
Question: Is Doctors Without Border a good organization to donate to? Answer: Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, Oxfam, Catholic Relief Services, and Project Medishare are among the organizations that had viable and worthy programs in Haiti before the earthquake.
Dr. Phil thanked Partners In Health (CBS, 1/28/2010)
Dr. Phil thanked Partners in Health for their response to the earthquake in Haiti. He urged viewers to go to act.pih.org/drphil and make a donation.
Urgent Continued Need for Medical Supplies (MSNBC, 1/28/2010)
Dr. Joia Mukherjee was interviewed by Contessa Brewer of MSNCB regarding PIH's work in Haiti.
For Seneca Doctor, Service in Haiti "Finest Hour" (Independent Mail, 1/27/2010)
"In my many trips to Haiti I have come to expect the affection and gratitude which the people of Haiti displayed. In the past I had worked only in the Partners In Health hospital in Cange. Dr. Paul Farmer started a clinic in Cange more than 25 years ago. Everyone adores Paul and there is ample remaining love for his staff and volunteers."
BHS Graduate Calls Haiti Home (EastBayRI.com, 1/27/2010)
"Three years ago when Cate Oswald first traveled to Haiti to work for Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston based organization dedicated to helping Haitian residents, her mother Connie Oswald thought her daughter was in for an experience of a lifetime."
Berkeley High Raises $9,000 for Haiti Earthquake Relief (The Daily Californian, 1/27/2010)
"Students raised the funds by publicizing the campaign and collecting donations throughout campus on Jan. 22. Young created a Web site in coordination with Partners In Health titled 'Stand with Haiti' to accommodate online donations. '(Partners In Health) have been in Haiti for 25 years and have a really great track record for working really efficiently and effectively with Haiti and have a positive relationship with the people there,' Young said."
Watch Us Care: A Charity eBay Auction to Help Haiti (Chicago Tribune, 1/27/2010)
"If you're in a financial position to be part of this effort, there are a couple of different ways that Watcher readers can help. First, you can donate via this Watch Us Care page to a respected charity called Partners in Health, which has been working to provide medical assistance to the people of Haiti for more than 25 years."
Natick Store Sells Haitian Art to Benefit Haiti Relief (Boston Globe, 1/27/2010)
"Baldwin Hill Art and Framing in Natick will be selling Haitian artwork to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. Proceeds from the sale will be donated to Doctors Without Borders and Partners In Health to support their ongoing work."
Cruel Blow Now Festers (Boston Globe, 1/27/2010)
"Two weeks after a massive earthquake leveled much of this impoverished city, a wave of new infections and injuries has emerged, further taxing the nation’s shattered health care system."
Haitian AIDs Clinic Regroups (Wall Street Journal, 1/27/2010)
"Public health care, weak and under-funded, depends on a handful of private institutions, including Gheskio and Partners In Health, which runs free clinics and hospitals in the rural central plateau."
Rebuilding Health Care System Major Hurdle for Haiti (PBS, 1/26/2010)
"The major challenge now is post-op care and what we would call in the medical profession discharge planning. How do you discharge a patient and assure quality care when they are homeless? And how do you make sure that infections don't develop? How do you assure that bandages are changed for amputees or wounds that have been debrided?" Listen to an interview with PIH physician David Walton here.
WFNX, Newbury Comics, Boston's Haitian Media Team Up for Radiothon to benefit Partners In Health (Boston Phoenix, 1/26/2010)
"WFNX turns over its airwaves to a 'Help for Haiti' radiothon, to raise awareness and collect donations for Haitian relief. The proceeds will go directly to Partners In Health, the Boston-based charity that's been providing health care and other assitance to Haiti for two decades."
Haiti Fundraiser in Echo Park on Saturday Will Feature Music, Readings (Los Angeles Times, 1/26/2010)
"This Saturday at 7 p.m. in Echo Park, writers and musicians will perform at Trópico de Nopal Gallery in a fundraiser for Haiti [. . .] All proceeds from the benefit will go to Partners in Health, the nonprofit founded by Dr. Paul Farmer that has been working in Haiti for more than 20 years."
Boston Civic Leaders Plan Next Haiti Steps (Boston Globe, 1/26/2010)
"Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the medical director for Partners in Health, briefed the packed room on her 10 days in Haiti treating quake victims. Her voice breaking at times, Mukherjee said she treated 800 patients on her first day in Haiti, 80 percent of whom had suffered orthopedic trauma. She said she then focused on organizing teams of orthopedic and trauma surgeons to treat crush injuries."
College Students Rally for Haiti Relief, Raising Big Money for Partners In Health (USA Today, 1/26/2010)
"Within days of the Haiti earthquake, Dartmouth College students came together to form Students at Dartmouth for Haiti Relief (SDHR), and set an impressive fundraising goal of $100,000 for Partners In Health (PIH), a Haiti relief organization that provides medical supplies and treatment."
Jefferies, Carnival Lead Donations for Haitian Relief: Table (Bloomberg News, 1/26/2010)
"U.S. companies donated tens of millions of dollars to Haitian relief after the Jan. 12 earthquake that its government said left 2 million people homeless. "
Day Six in Haiti: Making Some Improvement (Thrive, 1/26/2010)
"I have received many emails from people asking where and who to donate too. I would have to recommend Partners in Health (PIH). Every bit goes to the Haitian people and even to the people caring for them. I cannot tell you how much PIH makes a difference in their lives."
Delivery of Aid Remains the U.N.'s Toughest Job in Haiti (PBS, 1/25/2010)
"Coordination is very difficult, as I'm sure you have seen already. There are so many balkanized, fissured groups trying to do good, that, you know, it is very difficult for the government or the U.N. or any organization to coordinate them." Listen to an interview with PIH co-founder Paul Farmer here.
Ray Suarez: Haiti's Injured Make Their Way to Cange (PBS NewsHour, 1/25/2010)
"What constitutes good news in the midst of a tragedy like Haiti's? Today the NewsHour team headed out to Haiti's massive central plateau to see an operation that has stretched its modest resources to fit an oversized disaster."
Haiti: Obama's Katrina (Wall Street Journal, 1/25/2010)
"On Wednesday, the day after the quake, we organized a relief team in cooperation with the U.S. State Department and Partners In Health (a Boston-based humanitarian organization) to provide emergency orthopedic and surgical care."
San Francisco Lends a Helping Hand to Haiti (San Francisco Chronicle, 1/25/2010)
"Time to scour underneath your couch pillows and in the bottom of your purse for loose change. The City of San Francisco has launched a major effort to raise money for Haiti earthquake relief without tapping into its incredibly strained general fund - and that means asking residents and city employees to pitch in."
Report: Jennifer Aniston Gives $500,000 to Haiti (People, 1/25/2010)
"The actress donated $500,000 to Doctors Without Borders, Haitian health care provider Partners In Health and AmeriCares, all organizations participating in the relief effort in the Caribbean country where at least 150,000 have died in the disaster,"
Other Schools Look to Dartmouth for Charity (Chicago Tribune, 1/25/2010)
"Pulling an all-nighter just a week into winter term has paid off for three Dartmouth College students, not with good grades but with a massive fundraising campaign that has raised more than $133,000 for Haiti's earthquake victims and become a model for other campuses. "
Theta Chi Responds to the Haitian Crisis (Tufts Daily, 1/25/2010)
"The brothers of Theta Chi fraternity at Tufts University have decided to launch a multifaceted fundraising effort to aid the Haitian people in their time of need. In order to maximize the effect of the money we hope to raise through this fundraiser, Theta Chi has decided to donate the money to Partners In Health."
NH Nurse Describes Post-op Unit Set Up in Haiti (WCAX.com, 1/25/2010)
"A New Hampshire nurse volunteering in Haiti says patients are getting excellent care despite limited resources. Rachel Allen of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is part of a group sent to Haiti through an alliance between the hospital, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Medical Center and Partners In Health, the Boston-based organization co-founded by Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim."
Saving the World, 2.0 (Newsweek, 1/25/2010)
"Two days after the earthquake, we announced a donation of $1 million to Catholic Relief Services and $500,000 to Partners In Health." Read an interview with Bill Gates here.
Progress in Haiti: Catastrophe to Simple Chaos (Huffingtonpost.com, 1/25/2010)
"It took me two hours to get them food and then
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