All statements about Sierra Leone

333 statements about Sierra Leone in 132 videos, by upload date.

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2014

2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says that dream seems far away, but 60 years ago Japan was in ruins, 25 years ago Germany was divided, and 12 years ago Sierra Leone was in civil war; now it is the second-fastest-growing economy. — 00:06:35
2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: Ten days before falling ill with what turned out to be viral meningitis, John was in Ethiopia, on the same continent as Guinea and Sierra Leone, where Ebola is spreading. — 00:00:31
2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, health workers must choose between abandoning their work and risking Ebola for themselves and their kids, because of inadequate infrastructure and supplies. — 00:03:02
2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — John: There have been about 10,000 reported Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, an undercount, and the infection rate is not levelling off, which is terrifying. — 00:00:39
2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — John: Citing Bill Gates, John says the collapse of public health care in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has probably caused more non-Ebola deaths than Ebola has. (hedged) — 00:02:00

2016

2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John says the Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has ended, though flare-ups remain possible. (doubtful: more than 11,000) — 00:00:35
2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John says strengthening community health centers in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia is vital to prevent future outbreaks. — 00:00:41
2016-12-09 · The Difference A Decade Makes: The 10th Annual Project for Awesome Is Here! — John says Partners In Health trains and employs community health workers around the world, like Muhammad from Sierra Leone and tens of thousands of people like him. — 00:00:54
2016-12-09 · The Difference A Decade Makes: The 10th Annual Project for Awesome Is Here! — John says a decade ago almost 13% of children in Sierra Leone died before age 5; today it is under 9%. — 00:01:10

2018

2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: After the outbreak the world made big health investments in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia; as the New Yorker article says, once Ebola seemed stabilized the money evaporated. — 00:00:32
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: When the outbreak began, Sierra Leone, a nation of over 7 million people, had fewer than 200 doctors. — 00:00:52
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: Over 5% of Sierra Leone's doctors died of Ebola in 2014. — 00:00:58
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: For context, John's home state of Indiana, with a slightly smaller population than Sierra Leone, has over 16,000 practicing physicians. — 00:01:01
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: Short-term aid did not fix that problem: Sierra Leone still has far too few health workers, who are paid far too little. — 00:01:09
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: Facilities are hugely inadequate: more than half of Sierra Leone's public hospitals lack running water, and drugs and supplies are often out of stock. — 00:01:15
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: With catastrophic consequences: 9% of kids born in Sierra Leone die before they are five. — 00:01:22
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John is totally unconvinced that these problems are not our problems or that Sierra Leone's health system should be fixed entirely within Sierra Leone. — 00:01:29
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: That view ignores complexity and history: slavery and colonialism, and more recently misguided global loan rules that forced Sierra Leone for decades to spend under $5 per person yearly on health care. (hedged) — 00:01:39
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: Humans are deeply interconnected as a species: when drug shortages interrupt tuberculosis treatment, the multi-drug resistant TB that spreads is not only Sierra Leone's problem. — 00:01:53
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: In Sierra Leone in 2014 twice as many people died of tuberculosis as of Ebola, and almost all those TB deaths were preventable. — 00:02:22
2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John: Change is visible: life expectancy in Sierra Leone is low but rising, and its woefully underfunded health system is better than decades ago. — 00:02:44
2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!! — recommendation: John cites the World Health Organization for Sierra Leone's per-person health spending and Trading Economics for the size of Sierra Leone's economy. — video description
2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!! — John: About 11% of Sierra Leone's economy goes to health-care spending, a share similar to the UK, Australia or France. — 00:02:00
2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!! — John: Because Sierra Leone is much poorer, 11% of its GDP equals $54 per person per year for health care. — 00:02:12
2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!! — John says $54 per person per year is not enough to fund a robust health-care system. — 00:02:22
2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says in Sierra Leone communicable diseases are overwhelmingly the leading cause of lost life years, but mental illness causes more burden than almost any other non-communicable disease. — 00:01:56
2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says shackling in Sierra Leone just ended thanks to a huge Ministry of Health effort and slightly improved funding, news to be celebrated. — 00:01:56
2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says Sierra Leone still faces huge mental health challenges, with only two psychiatrists for seven million people, and elsewhere many are still chained without treatment. — 00:02:26
2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — John says Partners In Health does extraordinary work providing health care to the poor from Sierra Leone to Haiti. — 00:02:38

2019

2019-04-05 · TOO MANY MILKS — announcement: Hank says John is in Sierra Leone with Partners In Health, seeing how individuals and the whole community might help make life easier there, especially for pregnant people and babies. — 00:00:31
2019-04-05 · TOO MANY MILKS — Hank says John had poor internet and little free time for a video, and Hank looks forward to hearing what happened in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:58
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John and Sarah spent last week (week of 1 April 2019) in Sierra Leone learning about its health care system and visited Kissy Psychiatric Hospital. — 00:00:00
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says Kissy is a 199-year-old facility and the only mental health hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:10
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says the hospital is led by Dr. Abdul Jalloh, one of the only psychiatrists in Sierra Leone, a nation of over 7 million people. — 00:00:22
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — announcement: John: More areas will open: a lecture hall to train Sierra Leonean clinicians, and a ward that will be the country's first dedicated drug addiction rehabilitation center. — 00:03:52
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John predicts that as Sierra Leoneans come to trust mental health care to work, demand for services will keep rising, bringing new challenges. — 00:04:05
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says PIH succeeds because it builds systems and listens to the people it serves; it's no coincidence that 96% of PIH Sierra Leone's employees are Sierra Leonean. — 00:05:20
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — announcement: John: In coming months and years John and Hank will focus on long-term support for Sierra Leone's health care system, by far the channel's biggest project: intimidating, but the need is immediate and critical. — 00:05:30
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — ask: John hopes viewers will sign up for the new newsletter about the Sierra Leone project, linked in the doobly-doo, to learn more. — 00:06:00
2019-04-12 · Escalators: We're Not Doing it Wrong (Mostly) — ask: Hank thanks John for his Sierra Leone video, links it, and tells everybody to go watch it. — 00:03:45
2019-04-23 · untitled — ask: John: Life's Library has slots open for its new book, Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits; sign up at lifeslibrarybookclub.com, with all proceeds going to Partners In Health's work in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:26
2019-04-23 · untitled — announcement: John: Nerdfighteria's project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone will provide ongoing funding to improve the health care system there, because long-term problems need long-term solutions. — 00:02:55
2019-04-23 · untitled — ask: John asks viewers to suggest in the comments a title for the Partners In Health Sierra Leone project, or for Hank's sequel. — 00:02:55
2019-07-19 · In Which Hank Consumes the Juice of Over 400 Gushers — announcement: Hank: Pricier tickets include meeting the brothers afterward, and all the tour's money will support the community's work improving maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:01
2019-07-23 · What to Love and How — John: Liverpool fans sing the same songs and share a history; John has met them from Indianapolis to Sierra Leone, Hollywood to Stockholm, and they always remember together. — 00:00:57
2019-08-02 · The Cutest Octopus — announcement: Hank: To raise money for the community's work decreasing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, DFTBA Pin Pals launches a Bizarre Beasts pin subscription club. — 00:03:05
2019-08-09 · Decluttering the Somewhat Embarrassing Nightstand of a 39 Year-Old Best-Selling Author — ask: Hank: For viewers into enamel pins who want to support the community's work decreasing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, the Pin Club is open just two more days at $12 a month with free worldwide shipping. — 00:01:48
2019-09-17 · 'end the stigma' — John: Amid talk of ending the stigma of mental and other illnesses, Dr. Bailor Barrie told John in Sierra Leone that we can't know how to end stigma until we grapple with its causes. — 00:00:00
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — announcement: John says the brothers will make a big announcement later this month (October 2019) about working with Partners In Health Sierra Leone, and first considers why Sierra Leone is so poor. — 00:00:00
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John says Sierra Leone is a nation of around seven and a half million people, ethnically and religiously diverse. — 00:00:00
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — announcement: The description says Hank and John have worked for a year and a half on a big, long-term project with PIH Sierra Leone, to be announced later this month (October 2019). — video description
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — The description says Sierra Leone has the world's highest maternal mortality rate and one of the highest child mortality rates, which John believes long-term investment can change. — video description
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Most Sierra Leoneans descend from long-time West Africans, but many former slaves in the British Empire were resettled there, so some trace descent to Canada, England or Nigeria. — 00:00:29
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: In Sierra Leone earlier this year (2019) someone told John to look at the colonial railway map: the tracks linked mineral-rich areas to the coast, not cities to each other. — 00:00:29
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Since independence in 1961, Sierra Leone has struggled to move away from resource extraction and build systems such as infrastructure, health care and even mail delivery. — 00:00:58
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: A community can't spend what it doesn't have: at the UK's share of GDP, Sierra Leone would have about $45 per person yearly for health care; the US spends over $10,000 per person on health and over $12,000 per child on education. — 00:01:56
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Sierra Leone's civil war lasted from 1991 to 2002: tens of thousands died, millions were displaced, the health system was devastated, HIV and deaths rose and schooling was interrupted. — 00:02:26
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Sierra Leone exports $100 million in diamonds annually while 6% of all women die in childbirth. — 00:03:53
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: When Ebola reached Sierra Leone in 2014 the whole country had about 150 doctors; Indiana, with a similar population, has over 16,000. — 00:03:53
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: With little running water to sterilize and too few gloves or masks, John says this systemic weakness is why Ebola could ravage Sierra Leone but not the United States or Spain. — 00:04:22
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: The wealth of the US and UK can't be separated from Sierra Leone's poverty: they industrialized with its resources and built trade on West African slaves. — 00:05:26
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John thinks the idea that Sierra Leone can solve its problems in isolation wrongly imagines that they exist in isolation. — 00:05:55
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John's answer: Sierra Leone is poor because its systems were for centuries built around resource extraction, because of war, disease burden, and colonialism and its legacies. — 00:07:23
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John is hopeful, not because the problems are easy, but because of Sierra Leonean health workers' commitment and patients who taught him despair is not the right response to big problems. — 00:07:23
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Nothing about Sierra Leone's poverty is natural or inevitable, so John doesn't think it is permanent; evidence worldwide shows systems can strengthen so more mothers and children survive. — 00:07:52
2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings — announcement: John says the announcement of the brothers' big project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone is forthcoming: many moving parts, very exciting and very overwhelming. — 00:01:27
2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings — John says two years of working with Partners In Health on the Sierra Leone project have given his life purpose and direction, a wonderful gift. — 00:01:27
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John announces that over the next five years the brothers' families are donating $6.5 million to Partners In Health Sierra Leone. — 00:00:01
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John: In Sierra Leone earlier this year (2019) John spent a day with Ruth, a PIH community health worker who makes house calls to people with serious illnesses like tuberculosis or HIV. — 00:00:09
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says Sierra Leone has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world: one in 17 women there will die in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:29
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says 10 percent of Sierra Leonean children do not live to see their fifth birthday. — 00:02:00
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says 3,000 women in Sierra Leone will die in pregnancy or childbirth this year (2019). — 00:02:04
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says needing a C-section in Sierra Leone is often life-threatening: there is usually no ambulance, so a woman's best chance is a long ride on the back of a motorbike. — 00:02:33
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says PIH and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health are crafting a plan to strengthen every facet of the health system, starting in Kono: far more community health workers and stronger primary care centres. — 00:03:32
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says 96 percent of PIH Sierra Leone's employees are Sierra Leonean, and he has seen what they accomplish even with extremely limited resources. — 00:04:11
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says they are committed to following the project's successes and challenges over the next five years and beyond, through video, photo and audio updates and interviews with Sierra Leonean health workers. — 00:04:43
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John: Answering 'Why Sierra Leone?', John says the Ministry of Health is committed to systemic change and PIH's deep connections in Kono let it help make that change. — 00:05:04
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says it is unacceptable that thousands of women will die in childbirth in Sierra Leone this year (2019) and thousands more of treatable illnesses, and we don't have to accept it. — 00:07:13
2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — Hank says his money doesn't disappear in Sierra Leone: its value grows in children, nurses, parents and communities, just in ways he can't see or control. — 00:02:11
2019-11-07 · I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. — John: What John misses most is promoting his work: the Partners In Health Sierra Leone fundraising is going amazingly, but he knows there would be more donors and Pizzamas shirt buyers if he posted. — 00:00:40
2019-11-08 · Trolling Through John's YouTube History...GUESS WHAT I FOUND!? — announcement: Hank says all the profits from Pizzamas products are going to improve maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:40
2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — announcement: John says this year's (2019) P4A fundraising is entirely separate from the brothers' project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone announced a couple of months ago. — 00:02:01
2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says over 3,000 viewers have joined the brothers in donating to strengthen Sierra Leone's healthcare system, and they are grateful and excited to watch the progress. — 00:02:08
2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says the charities know better than the brothers where the funding gaps are and unrestricted funds are really important to charities, so the Sierra Leone project stays separate. — 00:02:31
2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — John: A recent PIH video tells of Mabel, a Sierra Leonean woman diagnosed with HIV while pregnant, whom Partners In Health helped get antiretroviral therapy and later become a community health worker. — 00:02:56

2020

2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — ask: The description asks people who can give $1,000 or more to support Partners In Health's fight to end the maternal and child mortality crises in Sierra Leone. — video description
2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says Partners In Health needs $20 million to break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence, which will dramatically improve healthcare for women and children in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:48
2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says thousands of viewers have become monthly donors to the project at pih.org/hankandjohn; he is grateful, as are people in Sierra Leone, one of whom made him an artwork. — 00:01:02
2020-01-17 · It's Like Shark Tank, but for Charity — announcement: Hank says that is part of why DFTBA now gives all of his and John's profit to the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:06
2020-01-17 · It's Like Shark Tank, but for Charity — announcement: Hank: The catch: if the business succeeds within three years, the $50,000 comes back to promote maternal health in Sierra Leone, and 10% of after-tax income goes to that effort every year. — 00:03:03
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says that when he and Sarah went to Sierra Leone they visited Koidu Government Hospital, the only hospital in Kono District, which has come a very long way. — 00:00:00
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says after the devastations of colonialism Sierra Leone never had much money to build a health system, which the civil war and then a horrifying Ebola outbreak weakened further. — 00:00:29
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says most children who die in Sierra Leone die of conditions we know how to treat or prevent. — 00:01:51
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says he understood in the abstract that Sierra Leone's maternal and child mortality crises were emergencies but had not been treating them like emergencies. — 00:02:50
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — recommendation: John recommends reading Partners In Health Sierra Leone's just-released annual report, even for those who can't donate, as a very hopeful document. — 00:03:48
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says one in 17 women in Sierra Leone will die in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:03:48
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says PIH now employs over 450 people, 96% Sierra Leonean; local nutritional supplements are reducing malnutrition; the hospital's maternal team is hiring nine nurses and four midwives. — 00:04:17
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — announcement: John says PIH and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health are building a Maternal Center of Excellence and a NICU at the hospital, more than tripling maternal beds. — 00:04:46
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John thinks that if the project works, it will be because thousands of people come together in solidarity with people in Sierra Leone. — 00:05:45
2020-03-24 · Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There — John says mental health providers in Sierra Leone have worked with people who had to self-isolate to prevent disease. — 00:00:29
2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — recommendation: In a comment John points viewers asking about Partners in Health's COVID-19 response in Sierra Leone to a podcast with regular updates and interviews with healthcare workers. — creator comment
2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — announcement: In a comment John says he will do a livestream about PIH's work in Sierra Leone later in the week, plus an evening livestream. — creator comment
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — ask: The description asks those able to donate $2,000 or more to the Sierra Leone maternal health effort to join the matching fund. — video description
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John explains that the brothers are helping Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health in a multi-year project to strengthen the healthcare system, focused on maternal mortality. — 00:01:28
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The pandemic challenges health systems everywhere: Koidu Government Hospital's emergency department closed for a time after health workers caught the virus and others had to self-isolate, leaving no replacements. — 00:01:28
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The emergency department is running again; PIH has been deeply involved in contact tracing and screening across Sierra Leone, and cases are down 18% from their peak. — 00:01:56
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: PIH Sierra Leone's contact-tracing expertise has been vital worldwide; Partners In Health is heading up Massachusetts's contact tracing program. — 00:01:56
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John recalls that a year ago they announced a project supporting PIH and Sierra Leone's government in radically reducing maternal mortality, raising $25 million over five years to strengthen Kono's health system. — 00:00:00
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: One out of every 20 women in Sierra Leone can expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:58
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: As Sierra Leone's health system has strengthened in recent years, child and maternal mortality have dropped sharply, showing these deaths are not inevitable. — 00:01:27
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: Despite COVID, groundbreaking on the Maternal Center of Excellence is still planned for April 2021, the original date, a credit to PIH and Sierra Leone's government. — 00:01:56
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — Isata Dumbuya says the MCOE will be a place where Sierra Leonean women know for the first time they deserve the same care, treatment and equipment as anyone else. — 00:02:48
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: As a teaching hospital, the MCOE will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health workers, from doctors and nurses to community health workers. — 00:04:14
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: The MCOE, like the whole hospital, will be owned by Sierra Leoneans through their government, staffed almost entirely by Sierra Leonean health workers and largely funded by the government. — 00:06:40
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: Not long ago the Sierra Leone figure was 1 in 17 women, so maternal death is declining and progress is real, just not fast enough. — 00:07:09
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: Every health worker John met in Sierra Leone tells of knowing how to save a mother or child but being unable to, for lack of an ambulance, blood bank or safe operating room. — 00:07:09
2020-11-24 · personal risk · societal risk — John: During Sierra Leone's 2014 Ebola outbreak the health system collapsed, and mortality rose sharply: more mothers died in childbirth, more children of diarrheal illness. — 00:01:56
2020-11-27 · Finally Launching this Project!!! — announcement: Hank says shipping is free everywhere with an address and 100% of the profit goes to charity, currently to decrease maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:05
2020-12-11 · The /W/orst Letter — Hank says all the sock club's profits will go to decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:58
2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — recommendation: In a channel comment John recommends Unchain, Partners In Health's podcast about the only psychiatric hospital in Sierra Leone. — creator comment
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — ask: The description asks viewers to become monthly or one-time donors to Partners In Health's work building a stronger healthcare system in Sierra Leone. — video description

2021

2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John: Under 'read books, not tweets', John says reading Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams or even Paul Farmer's upsetting book on Sierra Leone and Ebola leaves him informed and engaged, without Twitter's panicky dopamine rush. — 00:02:45
2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — ask: John: Acknowledging many gave to Sierra Leone or cannot donate, John asks those who can afford $500 or more to join the P4A matching fund via a Google form or email. — 00:01:27
2021-04-09 · A Thought is Not an Idea — Hank: Thoughts are not ideas: Hank's sample thoughts (raising money for a maternal center in Sierra Leone, socks selling well at DFTBA.com, many good independent artists) are unconnected and point in no direction. — 00:00:58
2021-04-09 · A Thought is Not an Idea — Hank: The Awesome Socks Club has now donated over $200,000 to the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:27
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: Next week (week of 26 April 2021) Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean government will officially break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence and the expansion of Koidu Government Hospital, a huge step against maternal mortality. — 00:00:00
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: In the region the MCOE will serve, one out of every 20 women can expect to die in childbirth. — 00:00:29
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — recommendation: John recommends PIH Sierra Leone's annual report, which covers the infant care unit and a baby, Naphtal, whose parents named him after his doctor in thanks for his survival. — 00:00:29
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: As a teaching hospital, the MCOE will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers. — 00:01:16
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: There is a very long way to go in strengthening Sierra Leone's health care system, but this is a big milestone. — 00:01:16
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: The groundbreaking will be celebrated on April 29 at 6 p.m. Eastern with a livestream featuring friends from PIH Sierra Leone; John hopes viewers join. — 00:01:16
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — The description says many viewers donated to Partners In Health's work for a stronger healthcare system in Sierra Leone for John's birthday, the perfect present. — video description
2021-10-01 · A Lie I Heard this Week — Hank says infant deaths per thousand births are below six in most places watching the video, but 80 in Sierra Leone, down from 160 when he was born in 1980; devastating, and not news. — 00:02:05
2021-10-01 · A Lie I Heard this Week — Hank says that in news terms falling from 16% to 8% infant mortality is good news, but 8% infant mortality is still a bad situation. — 00:02:26
2021-10-05 · Why the Heck am I on TikTok??? — Hank also uses TikTok to promote the Awesome Socks Club and Pizzamas shirts, both of which help build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:49
2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — announcement: Hank: Pizzamas products are available only during Pizzamas, for about another week, then never again; all profits support the community's work on health care in Sierra Leone. — 00:21:20
2021-10-13 · The Web of Care — Hank: No individual must care about or do everything, from never getting COVID to cutting maternal mortality in Sierra Leone or cooking every meal: we do all of it in a web of care. — 00:02:36
2021-11-05 · We Have Invented Something Marvelous — Hank says every dollar of the club's profit supports the community's work decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:56

2022

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: In 2019 John's family made a long-term commitment to support Partners In Health's effort to radically reduce maternal mortality in Kono District, Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Kono's health system is getting stronger: fewer mothers die for want of an emergency C-section and more kids survive, though maternal mortality is still hundreds of times higher than it should be. — 00:02:09
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: With support from PIH donors and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, the Kombayendeh clinic now has a stocked pharmacy, running water, a laboratory, clinician training, and patients. — 00:05:04
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John: Asked what else they needed, PIH Sierra Leone named teaching classrooms and a 100-bed dormitory, an outpatient department with maternal HIV support and family planning, a medicine warehouse, and support for the Kayima clinic. — 00:06:03
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John thanks PIH Sierra Leone's executive director Dr. Bailor Barrie, maternal care lead Isata Dumbuya, and everyone at DFTBA.com. — 00:08:29
2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — Mustafa Bundu (quoted): Sierra Leonean footballer Mustafa Bundu told a reporter the team wants people to see the positives in Sierra Leone, in football and beyond, not just war or Ebola. — 00:00:00
2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — John: After years of focusing on the injustices behind Sierra Leone's impoverishment while supporting its health system, John wants today to tell a joyful soccer story. — 00:00:00
2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — ask: In a channel comment John wishes the Leone Stars luck on Thursday and invites viewers to join the thousands who donate monthly to strengthen Sierra Leone's health system at pih.org/hankandjohn. — creator comment
2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — John says Africa's best men's national teams meet every four years in the African Cup of Nations; Sierra Leone had not qualified in 26 years, and the Leone Stars rank 108th in FIFA's rankings. (doubtful: every four years) — 00:00:29
2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — John: Needing one win against Benin, the Leone Stars won a somewhat controversial penalty that Kei Kamara scored, and celebrations erupted across the country as Sierra Leone qualified. — 00:00:58
2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — John: Nobody gave Sierra Leone a chance: experts ranked it 23rd or 24th of 24, and its group held Algeria and Cote d'Ivoire, each with 11 players in Europe's top leagues to Sierra Leone's none. — 00:01:27
2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — John says the celebrations honoured not just the result but the players' heart, tenacity and belief, in a country that is growing and growing together. — 00:03:24
2022-02-08 · How Much Money Vlogbrothers Makes from YouTube (...and where it goes) — announcement: John says half the money went to the brothers' Partners In Health project to reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone; the rest was split between a Complexly educational fund and a fund for emerging educational creators. — 00:00:58
2022-02-08 · How Much Money Vlogbrothers Makes from YouTube (...and where it goes) — announcement: John notes the Project for Awesome is completely separate from the community's Partners In Health Sierra Leone project to reduce maternal mortality. — 00:02:26
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — ask: The description asks viewers to support PIH's project in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn and says the P4A donation page goes live at midnight. — video description
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: In Sierra Leone the average monthly rate of people returning for ongoing HIV care is over 99.9%. — 00:01:27
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: Told nothing could be done about one in 17 Sierra Leonean women dying in pregnancy or childbirth, Farmer said otherwise; so the community came to support PIH's maternal and child care center at Koidu. — 00:02:26
2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap? — John reports Dr. Mukherjee telling him that 15% of Sierra Leone's health care workers had already died of Ebola. — 00:01:56
2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap? — Joia Mukherjee (quoted): Dr. Mukherjee said charities leaving when the crisis ended would leave Sierra Leone's health system more fragile, so PIH was going and staying, to build a stronger system for the next catastrophe. — 00:02:26
2022-05-06 · Why I Didn't Quit YouTube (yet) — Hank says the Awesome Socks Club has donated over a million dollars to Partners In Health for the brothers' work in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:26
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John: Last week (week of 9 May 2022) the Washington Post published a story about 17-year-old Susan facing an unexpected high-risk pregnancy in Sierra Leone; her mother died in childbirth. — 00:00:00
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John says one in 20 women in Sierra Leone will die from being pregnant. — 00:00:00
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John: System strengthening can radically reduce maternal mortality: as Sierra Leone's health system grows stronger, partly through the community's investments, maternal mortality there fell over 10% in five years. — 00:02:26
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John: The gains come from government commitments, Sierra Leonean health workers' hard work, and people choosing to care and focus resources on a world where no one dies for want of a transfusion or C-section. — 00:02:55
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — ask: John asks viewers who want to donate to the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone to give at pih.org/hankandjohn, and thanks everyone for caring. — 00:03:24
2022-07-12 · Nauseous Puddle Water — announcement: John hopes the club, like the Awesome Socks Club before it, will give ongoing support to charities building stronger health systems, starting with the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. (hedged) — 00:02:44
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — ask: The description invites viewers to join the thousands of nerdfighters who donate monthly to the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — video description
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — John says the community is on track to raise over $30 million over the first five years of this decade for a stronger health system in Kono District, Sierra Leone. — 00:02:04
2022-09-26 · PIZZAMAS IS UPON US — ask: John says everything is available only during this year's (2022) Pizzamas at pizzamas.com, with all proceeds supporting stronger health care systems in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:58
2022-10-05 · Asking an AI Image Generator for Pizza Johns — ask: Hank, showing a Pizzamas item that Orin calls the tiniest statue in the world, says the world needs more access to health care, as in Sierra Leone, where all Pizzamas proceeds go, and the item is available only for a couple more days. — 00:00:00
2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20 — ask: John says that is what the brothers are trying to do at pih.org/hankandjohn; the description invites one-time or monthly donations for maternal and child health in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:24
2022-10-25 · Instantly Debateable — ask: The description congratulates Kissy and PIH Sierra Leone and invites viewers to join thousands of monthly donors or give once at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2022-10-25 · Instantly Debateable — John: Kissy Psychiatric Hospital has just been accredited as a full teaching hospital, so for the first time in Sierra Leone's history physicians and nurses can train in psychiatry in-country. — 00:00:58
2022-11-04 · My Secret Obsession — announcement: Hank says the Awesome Socks Club sends a pair by a different independent artist each month, ships free, cancels anytime, and gives all profit to cutting maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:03
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says the community, working with Partners In Health, is now on pace to raise over $35 million in the first five years of the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says that in 2019 one in 17 women in Sierra Leone could expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:29
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John explains that PIH and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health planned the Maternal Center of Excellence, a maternal and infant wing of Koidu Government Hospital with a blood bank, surgical suites for safe C-sections and a teaching role. — 00:00:29
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says progress is never inevitable: this is happening because of the extraordinary commitment of Sierra Leone's health workers and because of supporters. — 00:02:55
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John: The roasts are named after butterflies of Sierra Leone: the classic medium-dark Octavia and the new light roast Calypso. — 00:03:24
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — announcement: John announces that PIH now works with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and the World Bank to strengthen the health system in Kailahun District, just south of Kono. — 00:04:52
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says over 95% of PIH Sierra Leone's employees are Sierra Leonean and live where they work, so they saw that the clinic lacked the staff, space, stuff and systems for good care. — 00:05:21
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says that when the project began three years ago 1 in 17 Sierra Leonean women could expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth; today it is fewer than 1 in 20, still much too high but real progress. — 00:06:19
2022-11-22 · John's 2022 Gift Guide — ask: John: For coffee lovers John suggests an Awesome Coffee Club membership: carefully sourced, perfectly roasted beans, with 100% of profits supporting better maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:54

2023

2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John says the Awesome Coffee Club, with its cousin the Awesome Socks Club, is a really important part of ongoing funding to fight maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:29
2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — announcement: John: Today the Awesome Coffee Club launches its decaf roast, Paradoxica, named like all its roasts after a Sierra Leonean butterfly; it now covers light, medium dark and decaf. — 00:02:00
2023-03-14 · The Seduction of Despair — John says destruction is fast, loud and dramatic, reparative work slow and quiet; that's where his hope is, in big projects (a maternal hospital in Sierra Leone, US voting rights) and quiet human moments. — 00:03:10
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — The description says John visits Sierra Leone's Kono District for the first time since Covid and is astonished by the progress, the hope, and how far is still to go. — video description
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: Greeting Hank from the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, John shows his crying, sweaty face as it sinks in how many lives the community is helping. — 00:00:00
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: The Maternal Center of Excellence is a 48,000-square-foot maternal and infant care center being built in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: When PIH began working with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health eight years ago, Koidu's maternity ward had dirt floors and no patients, after impoverishment, civil war and the Ebola-era health-system collapse. — 00:00:00
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — In a comment John says help has to begin with cultural humility, listening to what Sierra Leoneans say they need, plus PIH's long-term focus; no charity is perfect, but he believes in PIH's model. — creator comment
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: Many Sierra Leonean hospitals have special care baby units but few function: staff, training, supplies and maintenance matter, and Koidu's unit thrives because its team has that support. — 00:05:21
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — announcement: John's comment says the op-ed is about a young man he met at the Lakka TB hospital in Sierra Leone in 2019, what happened to him, and why. — creator comment
2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John: Colleagues from Missoula to Sierra Leone count on the brothers to continue the Awesome Coffee and Socks clubs and everything else DFTBA makes. — 00:03:24
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — ask: John's comment says the Awesome Socks Club has reopened and urges viewers to get Awesome Coffee Club coffee, whose profits all fight maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — creator comment
2023-07-11 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson — John recalls meeting two young women in Sierra Leone a couple of months ago who were dying of TB; after a bedaquiline cocktail they recovered and are now cured, home and in school. — 00:02:55
2023-07-11 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson — John says generic manufacturers are ready, but cannot distribute to many high-burden countries, including Sierra Leone. — 00:04:23
2023-08-01 · Three Mornings — John says the Awesome Coffee Club donates 100% of profit to charity; Awesome Coffee, Awesome Socks and Sun Basin Soap have donated over $5 million in three years to fight maternal and infant mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:05:20
2023-08-15 · Henry — John: In 2019 John visited the Lakka TB hospital in Sierra Leone and met Henry, who shares his son's name and seemed his son's age; Henry showed him around, and John assumed he was a nurse's child. — 00:00:00
2023-08-15 · Henry — John says, per Dr. Tefera, even the injections were relatively new in Sierra Leone at the time. — 00:01:27
2023-08-15 · Henry — Girum Tefera (quoted): Dr. Tefera says that before Partners In Health came, a person in Sierra Leone with MDR-TB was just waiting for the time of their death. — 00:01:40
2023-08-15 · Henry — John: Dr. Tefera came to Sierra Leone from Ethiopia a few months after John met Henry, and he too first took Henry for staff, since Henry kept encouraging and helping other patients. — 00:01:56
2023-08-15 · Henry — John: Saying that in TB you have to keep trying, Dr. Tefera asked Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health to bring needed drugs from Liberia and Lesotho to save Henry. — 00:02:26
2023-08-15 · Henry — John says Henry was the first in Sierra Leone to get the bedaquiline-based cocktail; he recovered 'like magic', walking and laughing within three weeks, was cured and went home after over two years at Lakka. — 00:04:15
2023-08-15 · Henry — John: Henry returned to school and, with Partners In Health's support, studies human resources management at the University of Sierra Leone; he dreams of working in business and travelling. — 00:04:42
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — ask: The description invites viewers to support the community's efforts to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John shows Hank a picture of the Maternal Center of Excellence, a massive extension to Sierra Leone's Koidu Government Hospital funded primarily by Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:20
2023-08-29 · Breaking News: CEO Demoted — John says the clubs donate 100% of their profit to charity and have so far raised over $5 million for better child and maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — John recalls a lab tech in Sierra Leone telling him the machine is amazing, if only they could afford the tests. — 00:02:05
2023-09-22 · A Feeling I've Never Felt Before — Hank reminds viewers that all Pizzamas profit goes to decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:04:56
2023-10-03 · Nourished by Leaving — John says his friend Henry in Sierra Leone is encouraged when he sees beauty or goodness in the world, and John now feels encouraged too. — 00:02:26
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: Over the last five years the community has raised over $40 million to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, which John says is coming along great. — 00:01:27
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says that in Sierra Leone, a relatively small country, over 200 people get Hodgkin lymphoma every year. — 00:00:58
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John tells of Mondeh, a child in Sierra Leone's rural Kono district, whose parents noticed a lump on his neck at about six, when he also became much more lethargic. — 00:01:05
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says since Mondeh was treated such systems are starting to appear in Sierra Leone, with better imaging machines and better access to chemotherapy, but only starting. — 00:03:38
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says Sierra Leone will soon, hopefully, have its first radiotherapy available for cancer patients. (hedged) — 00:03:45
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says the devastating truth is that most people with Hodgkin lymphoma in a country like Sierra Leone will die even though they could have lived. — 00:03:53
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank: By capable Hank means the community can act for itself and the world, from TB access to Crash Course, SciShow and the clubs funding maternal health in Sierra Leone; membership should feel valuable. — 00:03:57
2023-11-10 · My Final Chemo Secret — Hank: Recalling John's video, Hank says a child in Sierra Leone waited years for a Hodgkin's diagnosis, then more years for good chemo at a hospital in Rwanda, over 4,000 miles away. — 00:02:37
2023-12-01 · It's OK if you think less of me after this! — Hank says John gave him a motivation: promise to raise $25 million for a hospital in Sierra Leone without knowing how, which excites him in a way making money for himself did not. — 00:03:15
2023-12-01 · It's OK if you think less of me after this! — Hank says 1 in 17 women in Sierra Leone die in childbirth. — 00:03:15

2024

2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: In 2019 the community began supporting Partners In Health's efforts to radically reduce maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone's Kono District. — 00:00:25
2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Needing long-term ongoing funding for the Sierra Leone commitment, the brothers started the Awesome Socks Club, a sock subscription, and later launched Good Store with coffee and soap subscriptions too. — 00:00:40
2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Beyond the Sierra Leone maternal and child care project, Hank's Cancer Socks raised over $350,000 this year (2024) to support better cancer care in impoverished communities. — 00:01:43
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank recalls that John convinced him to help raise $25 million to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone with Partners In Health, which was scary and motivating. — 00:00:29
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that work is hard, as seen in the fight against maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, but results are huge: maternal mortality there has halved since 2019. — 00:03:50
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says that on maternal mortality in Sierra Leone or the global TB crisis, he is astonished by what Nerdfighteria has done by orienting attention and resources in the same direction, and is grateful. — 00:04:23
2024-04-26 · One Year Out. — Hank says that today only the first pair of socks from the Awesome Socks Club costs $5 with free shipping, and that 100% of the profit from it and everything at good.store goes to decrease maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:52
2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says Good Store has raised over $7.5 million to reduce maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:27
2024-06-18 · The Tea — ask: The description and John's channel comment invite viewers to join the thousands of monthly donors to the Sierra Leone project at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: Altogether they helped raise over $40 million for the project, and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has already fallen by more than 50% since 2019, saving thousands of lives. — 00:01:27
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says long-term problems like the systemic impoverishment of Sierra Leone's health care system demand long-term solutions like ongoing funding for it. — 00:01:56
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John doesn't want to undermine the Sierra Leone maternal work, but PIH calls comprehensive TB care the next big thing in global health equity. — 00:05:21
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John has seen the community's power in reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and driving down TB drug and test prices: never underestimate Nerdfighteria. — 00:05:45
2024-07-12 · My Identity Crisis — Hank says people in Sierra Leone are going to have a hospital because of the socks members wear. — 00:03:43
2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — John's friend in Sierra Leone, Henry Reider, is trying to build a well in Freetown to address the water crisis there. — 00:01:56
2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank is beta-reading John's tuberculosis book: it goes deeper into TB and into John's relationship with it and people in Sierra Leone; being an early reader feels special. — 00:30:10
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says in 2019 he visited a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, met a boy who shared his son's name, and came home obsessed with tuberculosis. — 00:00:33
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says all money Good Store makes goes either to stronger maternal and infant care in Sierra Leone or to better tuberculosis care in Lesotho. — 00:02:27
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Good Store sells better versions of things people already need, and the money goes to Sierra Leone instead of to some billionaire. — 00:05:13
2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John feels obligated to the people who work at Complexly and Good Store and to the work in Sierra Leone and Lesotho, and thinks they feel obligated to him, which is good. — 00:04:23
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: In 2019 the brothers committed to raising $25 million to help build a maternal and infant care center in the Kono District of Sierra Leone. — 00:00:26
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John says that in 2019 Sierra Leone had the world's highest rate of maternal mortality. — 00:00:35
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: The week before, John attended the Partners In Health board meeting with global health leaders from Mexico, Rwanda, Peru, New Jersey and elsewhere, and met Vicky Reed, head of Partners In Health Sierra Leone. — 00:01:12
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Since 2019 the community has made a long-term, open-ended commitment to pay attention to and raise funds for Sierra Leone's maternal and child health care system. — 00:01:24
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: In 2017 Sierra Leone's maternal mortality rate was over 1,100 per 100,000 births, and with multiple pregnancies in a lifetime, one in 17 women there died in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:02:06
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Sierra Leone's maternal death rate is now 443 per 100,000 births. — 00:02:22
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Sierra Leone's maternal death rate is still far too high, about 100 times too high, but down about 60% in seven years. — 00:02:26
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: About 2,000 more mothers survive childbirth every year in Sierra Leone than in 2019, when the brothers' project with Partners In Health began. — 00:03:16
2024-11-26 · Good News — John says the community is a tiny part of Sierra Leone's progress on maternal deaths; Vicky Reed and her colleagues would be the first to point out that it only works through deep partnership with the government, the main driver of health care quality in the country. — 00:03:26
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: At the Sierra Leonean government's invitation, Partners In Health's model is being recreated in five districts, with hopes of eventually covering all 16 districts. — 00:03:40
2024-11-26 · Good News — John finds the progress against maternal deaths in Sierra Leone encouraging and says it can only be seen because the community has paid long-term attention to a long-term crisis. — 00:03:56
2024-11-26 · Good News — John says the community is not the main character of the Sierra Leone story but gets to be part of it, and should be really proud of that. — 00:04:04

2025

2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, says that after John met a sick boy, Henry, in Sierra Leone in 2019, he set out to learn everything about TB and concluded it persists through racism, greed and public-health economics. — 00:03:58
2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says that although the US government can claim medicines are still flowing, he hears again and again from people on the ground, from Tanzania to Sierra Leone, who cannot get their TB medication. — 00:03:24
2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says Hank's ideas the Awesome Socks Club and Sun Basin Soap have raised millions of dollars for a Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:49
2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says Hank's ideas help coral reefs in Maui, hospitals in Sierra Leone and TB clinics in Lesotho, and Hank's desire to make a difference inspires him, especially now. — 00:03:18
2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — ask: John says readers will want to follow Henry and his mother Isatu in Sierra Leone, and asks viewers to subscribe to Henry's YouTube channel, linked in the description. — 00:02:58
2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank: Reading the bundle's postcard, Hank says Sun Basin Soap donates 100% of its profit to the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, in a region with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. — 00:05:48
2025-04-18 · This one's for your mom — announcement: Hank shows the bundle: unscented hand balm, a citrus candle whose profit all goes to the Maternal Center of Excellence, Garden Party soap and Evensong Chai. — 00:13:07
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John recalls that in a 2019 video he announced his family's $6.5 million donation to build and maintain a maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says that in 2019 the latest statistics showed one in 17 women in Sierra Leone dying in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:00:29
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says, thanks to the government and groups like PIH, Sierra Leone's lifetime maternal death risk fell from 1 in 17 to around 1 in 74, an over 60% reduction, though still too high. — 00:01:27
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — announcement: John says it will start with inpatient care, phase in outpatients, and as a teaching facility dramatically improve care for babies and moms in eastern Sierra Leone. — 00:02:59
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says it also needed the Ministry of Health's support: PIH is not building a parallel health system, and the facility belongs to Sierra Leoneans through their government. — 00:03:33
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the MCOE will be a world-class training facility that strengthens and supports Sierra Leone's health care workforce. — 00:04:02
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says Sierra Leone is a vastly safer place to give birth than in 2019; Nerdfighteria is not the main character of that story but played a role. — 00:04:32
2025-05-16 · No One Knows When They Don't Die — Hank says the community's work in Sierra Leone means fewer women are already dying in childbirth, a very quiet victory. — 00:02:26
2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says a friend in Sierra Leone with HIV had his medication rationed by funding cuts; John promised he and Sarah would cover private medication, and the friend asked: what about everyone else? — 00:05:50
2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — announcement: Hank: After a call with Partners In Health, Hank announces they have raised the $50 million it takes to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone and get it running. — 00:06:49
2025-08-08 · I'm Glad I Ignored That Billionaire — announcement: John says all the profit goes to reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and beyond, which he calls pretty special. — 00:04:12
2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says the community constructing itself means weird inside jokes and shared projects, like donating Pizzamas money to help build and fund a hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:40
2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says the community realized early that the internet responds well to sudden disasters but not to ongoing ones, such as very high maternal mortality in parts of Sierra Leone. — 00:02:55
2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says without the community there would be no Crash Course, no hospital in Sierra Leone, and no AFC Wimbledon doing surprisingly well this season. (playful) — 00:05:00
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says that in Sierra Leone over the same period maternal mortality has dropped by over 60%. — 00:03:24
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John: A decade ago Koidu Government Hospital in Kono had no 24-hour electricity, running water, blood bank or working x-ray machine, few medicines, little or no paid staff, and so very few patients. — 00:03:24
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says this is primarily the result of the Sierra Leonean government investing in health and health workers, but private philanthropy, including all viewers, played an important role. — 00:03:53
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John: In Sierra Leone's strengthening health system and falling MDR-TB costs John sees how activism works: over many years, difficult, often unappreciated and unreported, but it works. — 00:04:52
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — ask: The description invites viewers to learn about the Maternal Center of Excellence and support Partners In Health in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank recalls that shortly after John's first video from Sierra Leone six years ago, the brothers pledged to raise $25 million for a hospital without knowing how, and exceeded the goal. — 00:05:47
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — announcement: Hank announces that the ribbon has just been cut at the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, thanking the community, Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health. — 00:06:16
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the MCOE, built and staffed by Sierra Leoneans, invests not only in community health but in the economy, medical education and health infrastructure of Sierra Leone and Kono District. — 00:06:45
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John reminds himself that, as Hank noted last week (week of 3 November 2025), the ribbon has been cut on the completed Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:58
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says the MCOE brings Sierra Leone its first NICU, over a hundred new maternal beds, safe operating suites for emergency C-sections and a blood bank, all owned by Sierra Leoneans through their government. — 00:01:37
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says Good Store, another way to support Partners In Health and the Coral Reef Alliance, raised about $10 million over the last five years to fight maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:04
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John calls Dr. Mariama one of his personal TB heroes for her work in Sierra Leone, a place that matters to him and the community. — 00:26:42
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Mariama: Dr. Mariama says Sierra Leone reported over 22,000 TB cases in 2024; 15% should be children but only 9% were, so about 3,000 children with TB are missed every year. — 00:27:45
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Mariama: Dr. Mariama says Sierra Leone diagnosed less than 1% of its MDR-TB cases last year (2024). — 00:29:22
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Mariama: Dr. Mariama says the Global Fund, which supports over 90% of TB services in Sierra Leone, has cut back 12% for the current allocation. — 00:39:56
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says his friend Henry, an MDR-TB survivor in Sierra Leone, credits Dr. Girum Tefera and also his mother, who brought him extra food when many are abandoned by families. — 00:47:09
2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — announcement: John explains where purchases go: Keats & Co. coffee and tea supports TB care in Lesotho; socks, underwear and Sun Basin Soap support the Maternal Center of Excellence; EcoGeek supports the Coral Reef Alliance. — 00:24:21
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says Henry often visits Lakka, Sierra Leone's only tuberculosis hospital, to remind patients that the disease is curable and they can live long, healthy lives. — 00:00:00
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says people from Sierra Leone need a visa to visit Denmark but cannot get one at home, as there is no Danish consulate; they must apply in Ghana, surrendering their passports. — 00:01:27
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says that at the last moment Isatu was denied a visa to Denmark, with no clear reason given, and had to fly back to Sierra Leone. — 00:01:56
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says it is impossible for Henry and Isatu to visit him in the US because the Trump administration has imposed a total travel ban on people from Sierra Leone. (doubtful: total) — 00:02:26
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John says the US ban on Sierra Leoneans exists for no reason other than that Sierra Leone is poor. — 00:02:55
2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says Hank helped fund the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu's government hospital, which triples the region's maternal beds and gives Sierra Leone its first ever NICU. — 00:02:26

2026

2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says using the money the Project for Awesome has raised to hire community health workers and midwives in Lesotho and Sierra Leone makes a lot more sense than spending $30 million on a yacht or a private plane. — 01:09:15
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John recalls that in 2019 he and Sarah went to Sierra Leone, where at the time one in 17 women were dying in pregnancy and childbirth. — 00:03:06
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John: In 2019 Partners In Health told John that $25 million was needed even to break ground on the maternal hospital in Sierra Leone, and he almost had a panic attack. — 00:03:54
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John announces that a couple of hours earlier the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital in Kono District, Sierra Leone, delivered its first baby. — 00:04:18
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says the Maternal Center of Excellence offers safe emergency C-sections, potentially for 5,000 births a year, and has the first neonatal intensive care unit in Sierra Leone's history. (hedged) — 00:05:41
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John says the Maternal Center of Excellence will also be a teaching hospital training the next generation of Sierra Leonean physicians. — 00:07:36
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John says people can now get safe emergency C-sections at the Maternal Center of Excellence, which has a functioning NICU for the first time in the history of Sierra Leone, a game-changing difference in maternal and infant health care in the Kono region and beyond. — 04:08:59
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the Maternal Center of Excellence also took six years of work with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and of training health workers, midwives, nurses and traditional birth attendants; many lives were saved along the way, and it will now be a teaching hospital. — 04:10:00
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says that since Sierra Leone's government took on maternal health as a priority, the share of women dying in pregnancy or childbirth has fallen from one in 17 or one in 20 to closer to one in 80. — 04:10:30
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says maternal deaths in Sierra Leone are still much too high, but have fallen 75% in seven years, and will keep going down because of these investments. — 04:10:59
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the work in Sierra Leone is a blueprint for the rest of the world: if better maternal care is possible in the epicenter of the maternal death crisis, it is possible anywhere. — 04:10:59
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says a Good Good Good headline claiming the brothers gave $50 million for the first NICU in Sierra Leone is wrong. (doubtful: $50 million) — 00:01:56
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health has also been part of the effort. — 00:02:55
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — announcement: Hank announces that this weekend, during P4A, which was instrumental in building the Paul E. Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, the first baby was born in Sierra Leone's first NICU. — 00:03:49
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — announcement: John says the Paul Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence finally opened at Koidu Government Hospital, radically transforming infant and maternal care in eastern Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the MCOE contains Sierra Leone's first NICU. — 00:00:00
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says Partners In Health wanted to help Sierra Leone's government because everyone else called the country too risky: fragile systems, fear of war or economic collapse. — 00:02:55
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the reluctance to invest in impoverished communities is the main reason maternal and child mortality were so high in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:55
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says more than one in 10 children in Sierra Leone died before age five and more than one in 20 women died in pregnancy or childbirth. — 00:03:24
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John is tired of a world where many take risks on him, with the funding that started Crash Course or educational opportunities, and few on Sierra Leone's health system. — 00:03:53
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John announces the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital has passed its first major milestone: its 500th baby delivered, in just a few months. — 00:00:00
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says just 20 years ago Sierra Leone was the deadliest place in the world to give birth: mothers died of hemorrhage, preeclampsia and above all lack of safe emergency C-sections. — 00:00:29
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says that is no longer the case: Sierra Leone's maternal mortality rate has dropped by 78%. — 00:00:58
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says the MCOE holds Sierra Leone's first NICU, already a critical site of care for premature infants: over 130 babies have received care there. — 00:02:55
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John is reminded that long-term problems demand long-term solutions: after seven years with Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, they are seeing the transformation. — 00:03:24
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says 100% of the box's profit goes to support moms and newborns in Kono District, Sierra Leone. — 00:04:23
2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank says John is in Sierra Leone visiting the Maternal Center of Excellence; they were just texting, and Hank can't wait to see more of it. — 00:00:00
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John lists the MCOE's piped oxygen, a laundry still under construction, 120 maternal beds and the nation's first NICU, and says it has transformed the care possible in Kono and Sierra Leone. — 00:02:55
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says the facility is training the next generation of Sierra Leonean nurses, midwives and doctors. — 00:03:24
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John calls the MCOE a tremendous accomplishment and is most impressed that no corners were cut in building it: it is not an excellent center for Kono, Sierra Leone or an impoverished country, but an excellent maternal and infant care center, full stop. — 00:03:53
2026-05-01 · Despair is Not Wisdom — Hank says that if we thought despair was wisdom, a hospital in Sierra Leone would not exist and babies would be dead; instead they can be tickled. — 00:05:11
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John: In Sierra Leone last week (week of 27 April 2026) John kept thinking of Hank and the thousands who donate monthly at pih.org/hankandjohn, most of whom have never been there. — 00:02:14
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John says most of those, Hank and Katherine included, who raised over $30 million for the MCOE and other efforts against maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone have never been there. — 00:03:24
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — announcement: John: The 2,000th baby has been born at the Nerdfighteria-supported the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone since it opened in February; all will have access to vaccination at Koidu Government Hospital or local clinics. — 00:05:21
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — ask: The description invites viewers to learn about the brothers' project to help Partners In Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — John says Sun Basin Soap has donated millions of dollars to support the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:15
2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank says his artwork is not video but the channel, the brotherhood, the whole thing: from people unsure which brother is which to people making Hollywood, Ending cakes, fonts and hospitals in Sierra Leone. — 00:06:57
2026-10-27 · Should I Salinger… — John: Looking at the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, John is sure it is worth whatever the minor cost of a public life is. — 00:03:02

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