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Partners in Health TB programming: Fighting Tuberculosis Globally
BIYPIHE Officers Discussing a lecture by Mark Fisher on the impacts of capitalism on culture
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Fighting Tuberculosis:
a global effort.
TB, like many infectious diseases, glaringly reveals health care inequities. According to the World Health Organization, it is the deadliest infectious disease in the world, infecting 10 million people in 2018 and killing 1.5 million. More than 95 percent of those cases and deaths occurred in developing countries.
PIH has battled this inequity for more than two decades, by treating an preventing TB, its more severe, drug-resistant variants, and co-infections of HIV and TB in some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world. Our community-based approach to care has resulted in some of the highest cure rates and lowest treatment default rates ever recorded.
The endTB project is working to dramatically improve treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), through clinical trials of new drugs and shorter treatment regimens that involve only oral medicine and the elimination of daily injections. PIH works in the endTB partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Interactive Research and Development, and financial partner Unitaid.
All of our fundraisers this season go to PIH TB Programs!
UGHE medical students!
UGHE campus!
2023-2024 Campaign:
University of Global Health Equity
The Partners In Health- supported project our network is fundraising for this year is the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in the Burera Dsitrict of Rwanda. This is a medical school in Rwanda that aims to teach their students not just medicine, but also leadership in global health. This project especially exemplifies PIH's system-building philosophy in its creation of the next generation of global health leaders who will work on behalf of the Global South. This project is also unique in that we are not raising money to save people, rather we are sending resources to people to help them save their own. On top of this, these will be doctors to learn from as we navigate this post-pandemic world of global health.
Learn More About the UGHE Here:
Watch this short video
Read through this three-pager on the school
Read through the UGHE's case for support
Peruse the UGHE website
Flip through this presentation on the UGHE
Read this article on the Rwandan health system
Introductory Resources
Click here to access a comprehensive list of resources to learn more about PIH and the various global health issues we're focused on.
BIYPIHE Education Segments
Click here to access global health related education segments our education leads, Maxx and MinWoo, have made this year!
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