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‘Accompaniment’ Can Reform Health Care Around The World “We don’t need to start fresh to create patient-centered medical homes. We just need to look to community-based models of care that are effective but often go unrecognized,” according to a Boston Globe opinion piece by Heidi Behforouz, the director of the Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment project, which is based on “a model that Partners in Health pioneered to fight HIV in rural Haiti and drug-resistant tuberculosis in Peru…

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Opinions: Community-Based Health Care Models; U.S. Leadership In Reproductive Health Care

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