In 2025, Socios En Salud continued to work to make access to health not an abstract promise, but a concrete experience in people’s lives. From specialized chronic disease care to clinical research that is changing the way we treat the most resistant tuberculosis, our work returned to where the health system faces the greatest gaps.
Community accompaniment continued to be at the heart of this effort. Through programs encompassing mental health, maternal and child health, care for the elderly and safe spaces for historically excluded populations, we strengthened the capacity of communities to sustain their treatment, care for their well-being and exercise their right to health.
The five stories we present below give an account of that sustained work: different processes, diverse contexts and specific people, united by the same institutional conviction - accompanying, closely and continuously, is a way of healing and transforming the health system from within.
Diabetic foot under control with new specialized care module in San MartĂn de Porres
With this initiative, the result of joint work between the Programa de Enfermedades No Transmisibles (ENT) y Cáncer de Socios En Salud and the Centro Materno Infantil (CMI) Mexico, more than 800 people with diabetes, hypertension and obesity receive continuous medical care in this district of North Lima. Further reading.
Elvis Espinosa vs. the most resistant tuberculosis: the clinical trial that saved his life
Peru participated in a global research study that showed that pre-XDR tuberculosis - the most resistant - can be treated in up to six months, without injections and with human accompaniment. Elvis Espinosa, a participant in this study, told us how this became possible. Further reading.
Trans women in Lima: Workshops offering health, employment and safe spaces
More than 30 transgender women strengthen their emotional health and treatment while learning trades at Socios En Salud’s job skills workshops. Azul, born in Leticia, Colombia, tells us how these spaces have been helping to keep her in touch with her vocation. Further reading.
The story of Dina Bustilles: Hope and accompaniment
Through the Maternal, Infant and Adolescent Health program, mothers like Dina Bustilles rediscover parenting through play, drawing and accompaniment in the first steps of their children’s development. A story of resilience that we publish as part of Mother’s Day. Further reading.
Coaching to Heal: Coping with Depression in Older People
Before she turned 80, Olga Ijuma had lost her husband and was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis which ended up aggravating her mental health. But through Socios En Salud’s Mental Health program, she received the accompaniment she needed to begin recovering from depression. Further reading.
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