| November 2012
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| Advances in Tb Diagnosis
Improving the detection of Tb has been a high priority for
the World Health Organization (WHO) and all involved in the care of HIV
patients. Some exciting technology
has been developed which can dramatically increase the ability to detect Tb in
HIV patients. Through help from African
Mission Healthcare Foundation, God’s Economy, Becton Dickinson (BD) and
individual donors, PIH now has one of the best Tb labs in the country. Read more
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Sept 2012
| Lexie Day is a lab technician from Australia
currently working at the Partners in Hope Medical Center (PIH). When
asked why she came to Malawi, she said, “My whole life, I’ve always
wanted to go to Africa. “ She took the first step by attending a
mission conference where she learned about an international,
interdenominational mission organization called SIM (Serving in
Mission). “I was praying for purpose, looking for what God wanted.” Read more
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August 2012  | Carolyn Moore is a nurse from
Australia who sought out an overseas opportunity where she could use
her twenty-five plus years of experience working in community health. She had been to Malawi and knew a
couple people here, so she connected with an international, interdenominational
mission organization called SIM (Serving in Mission), and learned about a
community outreach program of Partners in Hope, called Tigwirane Manja (means “let’s hold hands”
in the local language of Chichewa). Read More
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July 2012  | Jennie Herrington is a doctor from the United States who
volunteered her time at the Partners in Hope Medical Center(PIH) for the month of July, 2012.
Following her experience here, she gave some thoughtful answers to
questions that other doctors might have:
1. How does medical practice at the Partners in Hope Medical Center differ from your experience in the United States?
Being
in a resource-limited setting means thinking about diagnosis and
treatment a little bit differently. I found that I began to rely more on
my clinical exam and diagnostic reasoning, rather than reflexively
ordering X-rays or lab tests that would have been considered routine in
my hospital in the United States. Though at times I wished there was a
specific test for a patient, I was pleasantly surprised by the level of
diagnostic capabilities available at PIH. Read More |
 | Bryony Pannell is a doctor from the UK
who has come to work at the Partners in Hope Medical Center (PIH) three
different times, and plans to come again. Though she had never
considered working as a doctor in Africa, an advertisement through the
Christian Medical Fellowship caught her attention. She recalls, “I
tried to ignore it, but found myself going back to the web page again
and again, and eventually emailed Perry [director of PIH]… I still
probably hoped nothing would come of it!” Read More
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