Six mental health program leaders at Partners In Health pioneer community-based care across Haiti, Peru, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, and Mexico. They transform stigmatized, inaccessible treatment into integrated primary health services.
Partners In Health works alongside Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health to improve maternal health outcomes through innovative programs, cultural integration, and modern facility development, addressing one of the world’s previously highest maternal mortality rates.
The World Shoe Fund, founded by Manny Ohonme, combats soil-borne diseases by manufacturing and distributing footwear in Africa. This sustainable, market-based approach has provided 1.5 million pairs of shoes, reducing disease, improving school attendance, and breaking cycles of poverty across 12 countries.
Over the past decade, Partners In Health (PIH) has transformed health care in West Africa, reducing maternal mortality, combating infectious diseases, and strengthening local health systems through long-term partnerships and community-driven solutions.
Partners In Health is working to reduce maternal mortality — still very high, but improving — in a Sierra Leone hospital through renovations, training programs, and a new Maternal Center of Excellence.