Partners In Health (PIH), known locally as Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB), is an international non profit organization that helps build and sustain public health systems in poor and underserved communities around the world.
Partners In Health was founded to deliver health care to the residents of Haiti's mountainous Central Plateau region. Its mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. PIH strives to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair. Since its founding, PIH has greatly expanded its work in Haiti and spread to 10 more countries.
1994
More than one million people lost their lives in the Genocide against Tutsis and another four million were displaced. After the genocide, Rwanda’s health system was severely crippled by the lack of trained medical professionals and the destruction of its infrastructure. Around that time, average life expectancy fell below 40 years.
