By Maya Brownstein | Annual Giving Assistant
Above: PIH clinicians receive patients at the Maforki Ebola Treatment Unit in Port Loko, Sierra Leone.
Your support of Partners In Health in the midst of the Ebola crisis allowed us to effectively treat patients and halt the spread of the virus in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Now, your continued support helps us rebuild these countries' health systems, which were decimated by Ebola.
New research about Ebola is helping to guide our efforts to bolster West Africa's health systems. Dr. Paul Farmer, PIH co-founder and chief strategist, leads this research, and comments, "To understand this Ebola pandemic, or any other transnational outbreak for that matter, we have to resist the urge for simplicity. Thta means going beyond the perfunctory epxlanations afforded by individual disciplines and, importantly, listening to the stories of those most affected. You can't build a health care system without a faithful effort to appreciate the historical, economic and social context where the work needs to be done."
Harvard Medical School recently published an article that further details Dr. Farmer's research and how it is "illuminating the hidden causes of the Ebola outbreak." You can read the full article by clicking this link.
Though the Ebola outbreak has subsided, there is still so much work to be done. Thank you for making it possible.
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