Partners In Health Canada

Partners In Health Canada We are a social justice and global health organization striving to make health care a human right. We refuse to accept that any life is worth less than another.

Partners In Health (PIH) was founded in 1987 to support a one-room health clinic serving a destitute squatter settlement in rural Haiti. PIH’s founders believed the conditions in the settlement — the crushing poverty, absence of modern health care and pervasive poor health — were not inevitable. These were social conditions subject to human intervention and so could be changed — in Haiti or anywhere in the world. PIH Canada opened our offices in 2011 to strengthen the work and add our voice to the Canadian movement for health as a human right. We bring the benefits of modern medicine to those who have suffered from the overt and subtle injustices of the world, in the past and in the present.

Months later, Fatimata can walk again. Her daughter, Bintu, is healthy, laughing, and full of energy. What began as a st...
11/22/2025

Months later, Fatimata can walk again. Her daughter, Bintu, is healthy, laughing, and full of energy.

What began as a story of loss became a story of resilience — one made possible by steadfast care and people like you who believe that health care is a human right.

“I want to go back to school and become a lawyer,” she says. “I want to help others the way they helped me.”

Her journey mirrors thousands more across Sierra Leone, where PIH’s work is rebuilding trust in the health system — one mother, one clinic, one community at a time.

💛 Donate by Dec 2 and your gift will be doubled for Giving Tuesday: https://pihcanada.org/stepup

👉 Like, share, and follow to stand with Fatimata — and every woman fighting for the right to safe, dignified care.

11/18/2025

The match is live! 💛
From now until Dec 2, your donation goes twice as far to support safe births, stocked clinics, and care that reaches everyone.

This is what solidarity looks like.
Join us and help kick off the match strong.

Link in bio or through this link if you’re seeing this on Facebook: https://pihcanada.org/?form=Solidarity

All I want for Christmas is giftables that send a message 🧡Link for shop in the bio! Note: side effects of purchases cou...
11/16/2025

All I want for Christmas is giftables that send a message 🧡
Link for shop in the bio!

Note: side effects of purchases could include one or two angry relatives; proceed with caution.

All I want for Christmas is giftables that send a message 🧡Link for shop in the comments! Note: side effects of purchase...
11/16/2025

All I want for Christmas is giftables that send a message 🧡
Link for shop in the comments!

Note: side effects of purchases could include one or two angry relatives; proceed with caution.

11/16/2025

Calling in the people who refuse to look away from the truth:
that sickness follows lines of inequality,
that poverty is political,
that whole communities are denied care because systems weren’t built with them in mind.

To the ones who feel in your bones that injustice shows up in hospital hallways long after it starts in neighbourhoods, paycheques, and borders.

If “where you live shouldn’t determine if you live” hits you in the chest, you’re exactly who I’m trying to reach.
If you’ve been searching for people who care about justice as much as you do:

you’re home 🧡 Stay awhile.
And let’s build together.

11/14/2025

From poverty to displacement to systemic inequity, mental well-being is shaped by far more than what happens inside a clinic.

On November 18, 1:30–4:30 p.m. ET, join the Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity: Mental Health Matters, hosted by Partners In Health, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Harvard Global Health Institute.

Hear from leading experts on how comprehensive, justice-driven approaches can transform mental health care globally.

This year’s program draws on the latest issue of Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, which explores the frontiers of mental health today.

🔗 Learn more & register through the link in our bio, or through this link: pihcanada.org/mental-health-matters

When Fatmata arrived at the PIH-supported Jojoima Health Center, she was weak, frightened, and ready to surrender.The nu...
11/12/2025

When Fatmata arrived at the PIH-supported Jojoima Health Center, she was weak, frightened, and ready to surrender.
The nurses didn’t hesitate. They lifted her gently, examined her, and refused to let her lose hope.

Doctors discovered the cause — tuberculosis had attacked her spine.
They reached out through telemedicine to specialists hundreds of kilometres away, then began months of treatment and rehabilitation.
Every day, a nurse came to check on her.

Every meal was planned to rebuild her strength.
When the time came to give birth, the team performed a safe cesarean section, making sure both mother and baby survived.
Across Sierra Leone, fewer than half of women give birth with a skilled attendant.

Fatmata was one of the lucky ones, but luck had nothing to do with it.
It was the result of care that stood firm.

💛 Your support trains nurses, stocks rural clinics, and brings lifesaving care where the world too often looks away.
👉 Follow for the next chapter — and see how hope returned to Fatmata’s life.

11/11/2025

A recent article suggests that 60% of foreign health aid to Africa is “effectively wasted.”
Before we accept that headline, let’s ask:

• Who decides what counts as “waste”?
• And why do we never ask the flip side of this? Instead of reducing aid, what would increasing unrestricted, trust-based investments in African public health systems achieve?
• And who benefits—politically or financially—from portraying African governance as the issue?

PIH Canada National Director Mark Brender digs into the nuances behind this narrative 👆🏽
Read the article through the link in our bio or at this link:
https://www.devex.com/news/africa-cdc-chief-60-of-foreign-health-aid-was-effectively-wasted-111049/amp

💬 We want to hear from you: when you read headlines like this, what questions come to mind? What’s your take on this?

They don’t call them Rebel Caregivers for nothing. 💪This limited-edition collection, designed by artist Grace Yip, celeb...
11/10/2025

They don’t call them Rebel Caregivers for nothing. 💪

This limited-edition collection, designed by artist Grace Yip, celebrates those who refuse to accept that anyone is beyond the reach of care.

💗 Every purchase helps health workers and patients around the world access the care they deserve.

🛍️ Shop the limited-edition collection while it lasts. Link in the comments.

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