Below is an email I recently received from my friend, midwife Ibu Robin Lim, in Indonesia. When I visited Bali last fall, Robin took me to a slum where many of the women and children she cares for reside. Below is a recap of a night she recenly spent there helping a mother following the delivery of her twins. This is just one glimpse into her life but you can easily get a sense of the extraordinary woman Robin is and all she is doing to ensure women and children get the care they deserve.

--Christy 

This blog is part 5 of a 5 part series on Partners in Health (PIH)  and their work in Haiti.

For our final blog on Haiti we wanted to focus on the future of this beautiful country that is full of untapped natural and human resources. And many readers may ask, what is the silver lining to Haiti's story?

This blog is part 4 of a 5 part series on Partners in Health (PIH) and their work in Haiti.

For those of you who have heard of Paul Farmer, you can probably imagine him trudging for miles to visit patients in their homes in rural Haiti or any of the other countries PIH is working in. Paul is famous for making this effort, an effort in which he works to pair people in partnership. And it just wouldn't have been a visit to a PIH site if we hadn't seen this approach in action.

This blog is part 3 of a 5 part series on Partners in Health (PIH) and their work in Haiti.

According to a well-known Chinese proverb, we are told: “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

This blog is part 2 of a 5 part series on Partners in Health (PIH) and their work in Haiti.

This blog is part 1 of a 5 part series on Partners in Health (PIH) and their work in Haiti.

Tales From the Field #3

By Betsy Freeman

I arrive on the floor in a daze.  There is a woman seizing.  Two midwives hold her down as the new young OB prepares to suction her.  I am instantly awake.

 “How’s her cervix?”  I ask.

She holds up two fingers. 

“Two more grams of mag” she calls out to anyone who has a free hand. 

No one does, but the mag appears.

 “It’s twins,” she says.

“Term?”

 “Does it matter?”