This pillar encompasses creating Letters to the Editor, call-a-thons, and congressional meetings.
Advocacy
This is a premier maternity hospital and medical training facility in Koidu, Sierra Leone, which officially opened in February 2026 to combat high maternal and infant mortality rates; houses country's first NICU, 120 beds and 200+ staff, with Paul Farmer being the main visionary.
Maternal Center of Excellence
A couple years ago, we made PIH posters with messages about what injustice, equity, healthcare as a human right, and universal care meant to us; the event falls under this pillar.
Community Building
___ is a customized online link webpage that an individual creates to collect donations from their own network of friends, family, and colleagues
Personal Fundraising Page
This pillar has held power hours for campaign initiatives such as TB programming in Sierra Leone and HIV/Aids in Haiti and Rwanda.
Fundraising
___ asks, "If access to healthcare is a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?"
Paul Farmer
This letter was addressed to the Office of Management and Budgeting to demand the release of FY25 funding for global health funding towards PEPFAR and USAID closeout costs; focus on this year's July + August advocacy campaign
Global Health Funding Oversight: Congressional Sign-On Letter
these are the 5 S's of PIH
staff, stuff, social support, space, systems
PIH has been advocating for this bill since 2019; it was passed in the Senate with strong bipartisan support via on September 19, 2024 (but still needs to pass in the House).
End Tuberculosis Now Act
This is an annual event held in the summer where members meeting with their Congress members to advocate for legislation, sign-on letters, or appropriations-related asks.
Training Institute
___ is the violent control of Sierra Leone by Britain, beginning in 1787, marked by land appropriation, forced labor, and extraction of resources like diamonds; it continues today through the underpaid labor of Sierra Leonean diamond miners, while corporations and wealthy investors profit disproportionately from the country’s resources
colonialism and exploitation
PIH has historically devoted resources to fighting this infectious disease; primarily affects the lungs but can occur throughout the body.
tuberculosis
What does SECURE stand for in the SECURE Health Act?
Strengthening Capacity for Unified Response and Excellence
The biography title of Paul Farmer
Mountains Beyond Mountains
this campaign for the 2026-27 year will address healthcare funding gaps for women and children in Malawi as a result of limited government spending, and diverted financial resources
Fundraising: Maternal and Child Health in Malawi