Blog: Health

There's Nothing PIH Can't Do

In their spare time healing the world's poorest in Haiti, Peru, and other parts of the world from Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis and treating patients with antiretrovirals for HIV/AIDS where large institutions like the WHO previously held to do such was too expensive, the Boston based non profit is now developing software. Not only is PIH developing software, but open source software at that.

Excellent campaign website

Reading the NYT this Sunday, I was moved by column about an Ethiopian woman who overcame a serious medical condition and is helping others to do the same. Nicholas D. Kristof wrote his column about obstetric fistula, a injury that happens during childbearing and leaves women with life altering effects.  This problem typically happens to poor women in developing countries who...