Injustice has a cure
Tšeliso Tobaka, a TB screener at PIH-supported Nkau Health Center in Lesotho, carries a cooler of supplies for TB screening.
Our Mission
ICU Manager Mpho Pholoanyane attending to patient at Botšabelo MDR-TB Hospital
Our mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, we strive to achieve two overarching goals: To bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair.
Our Programs
Our programs and approach support community needs through our network of supported public health facilities, PIH Lesotho programs reach approximately 120 000 people in rural hard to reach areas, we serve the entire population of Lesotho through different programs and receive and treat MDR TB patients from the whole country.
PIH Lesotho treats stable patients through community model of care. Very sick patients are admitted at Botšabelo hospital and Extended care is offered at halfway homes (Malaeneng).
From left to right - Internist Dr. Binyam Melese, Psychiatric Nurse Donato Condom, and ICU Nurse Manager Mpho Pholounyane works in the ICU at Botšabelo Hospital in Maseru, Lesotho treating Mokoto Kotelo, 33, an MDR-TB patient.
MDR TB patients on treatment at halfway homes (Malaeneng) with Treatment Supporters.
Partners In Health Lesotho clinics provide comprehensive Maternal and Child Health Services, including Antenatal Care, Prenatal Care, Postnatal Care, Family Planning, Cervical Cancer Screening, and Immunization.
PIH nurse Thandy Ketsia Tsoke (left), examines Mathabelang Motselekatse, 30, from Mafikeng village, and her 10-month-old daughter, Tlhokomelo, during their check-up at Nohana Health Center
PIH nurse Malefane Morie conducts an ultrasound scan on Ntoiseng Sekonyela at the Bobete Health Center
Lesotho’s mental health point prevalence is 20.8%, which translates to nearly one-fifth of the population experiencing mental illness.
Mental Health Impact Stories at Tlhanyaku Health Centre
Tšepiso Mokhele (Professional Counsellor), wearing a PIH T-shirt, and patient Semethe Moshesha during the documentation of KCS Mental Health Impact Stories at Tlhanyaku Health Centre
The PIH Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) program is designed to support children under the age of 18 who have lost one or both parents - particularly those whose parents have died from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and/or are at risk due to neglect or abandonment.
Lehlohonolo Khate from at Itjareng Vocational Centre under the OVC program
Mankopane Moeletsi, from OVC to PIH Staff (OVC Program Assistant)
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Lesotho was importing oxygen from South Africa. As a response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, PIH Lesotho constructed an oxygen plant to increase accessibility of medical oxygen.
BRING O2 Truck offloading oxygen cylinders at Botsabelo Hospital Maseru
Moving oxygen tanks to and from the oxygen plant at Botsabelo MDR-TB Hospital in Maseru, Lesotho
Rural Initiative (RI) was launched in 2006 to support HIV care and treatment in 7 rural health facilities; Nohana, Nkau, Bobete, Methalaneng, Manamaneng, Tlhanyaku, Lebakeng in the most hard-to-reach mountainous areas of the country. The health facilities are located in four districts of Mokhotlong, Thaba Tseka, Qacha’s Nek and Mohale’s Hoek.
Moliehi Matooane assisting Mareatile Leqheka from Matšoeteng village during community outreach at Matšoeteng Village.
PIH staff Mamahlape Motlapa and Lits’oanelo Molelekoa leave Bobete Health Center to do community outreach on horseback in Lesotho.
The TB Elimination Project is a strategic initiative aimed at achieving tuberculosis elimination by implementing the innovative “Search, Treat, and Prevent” approach in targeted areas. Over five years, PIH Lesotho seeks to detect and treat an additional 5,151 people with TB, significantly reducing TB incidence and advancing toward national elimination goals.
Mohale’s Hoek at the Mekaling village, Partners In Health Lesotho teams are bringing TB Elimination services closer to home through mobile outreach
Nkosana September (left) from PIH doing and X-ray screening of Thabang Pitso (right) in the mobile X-ray truck during community outreach in Mohale’s Hoek.
Our Impact
PIH Lesotho programs reach approximately 120 000 people in rural hard to reach areas, we serve the entire population of Lesotho through different programs and receive and treat MDR-TB patients from the whole country.
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90,000Population We ServeFor Primary Health Care across PIH-supported sites since 2020
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312VillagesAccross the country receiving Primary Health Care throught PIH Health Centers
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454,847TB ScreeningsAcross all sites in the country, from 2020
The first people to arrive at the outreach are often elderly villagers, mothers carrying children on their backs and men returning from the fields. One by one they make their way beneath the outreach tents where an entire healthcare system has been brought directly into their community.
For many, this is the first opportunity to receive comprehensive tuberculosis screening without travelling long distances to a health facility. What begins as a simple registration soon becomes a carefully coordinated journey through one of the most comprehensive community TB programmes in Lesotho.
When a person is diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), the focus naturally shifts to treatment. Yet behind every diagnosis is a family, a household, and a community that may also be at risk. For the TB Elimination Project, finding one patient is not the finish line. It is the starting point for a race against time to find others who may have been exposed and connect them to care.
Established as a major investment in the sustainable management and quality assurance of hospital machinery, the Center reflects Partners In Health (PIH) Lesotho’s growing capacity to maintain life-saving equipment in-house.
Support Us
Join us in the journey of ensuring that everyone has access to quality health care. We target in rural hard to reach areas and communities and ensure that they have preferential option health care.
PIH Lesotho TB Hunter System
