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UNAIDS Releases New Global HIV/AIDS Report
Annemarie Hou, Director of Communications at the Joint UN Programme on AIDS and HIV (UNAIDS), speaks at a press conference in Geneva launching a new Results Report on HIV. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré World AIDS Day is quickly approaching on December 1 where the global community comes together to remember those who have succumbed to HIV/AIDS…
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10 Global Development Stories to be Thankful For
Typically when we think of global development we focus on everything that is wrong because the challenges are so great. Rarely are the successes celebrated because with every move towards a goal there is still so much to do. Today we are featuring those stories that have been more about success than failure; more about…
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Book Review: Our Kind of People
Our Kind of People: A Continent’s Challenge, A Country’s Hope by Uzodinma Iweala My rating: 4 of 5 stars When it comes to HIV/AIDS on the African continent we, as Westerners, are often blinded by the ubiquitous stereotypes that permeate our perspectives and opinions about Africa. We then can only rely on the authentic and…
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New Partner Update: mothers2mothers
In order to prevent babies from being born with HIV massive outreach must take place in order to encourage HIV-positive women to take the necessary drugs to ensure their babies are born HIV-negative. Today no child should be born with HIV. That is why we are excited to partner with mothers2mothers! From mothers2mothers: mothers2mothers was founded in…
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Why African Women Are Dying of Cervical Cancer
With so many communicable diseases plaguing the African continent we often forget about the non-communicable diseases that ravish its people as well. Did you know that cervical cancer is the number one cancer killer of women in Africa? Taking the lives of roughly 270,000 African women each year, Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University,…
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Join the EGPAF Google+ Hangout Tomorrow
Every single day, 1,000 mothers — some unaware they carry HIV — transfer the virus to their babies during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding. Without treatment, 50 percent of HIV-positive infants will die before their second birthdays. As global leaders, researchers and activists descend upon Washington, DC for the International AIDS Conference, we must ask: What…
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Ask Congress to make a mother’s fight their fight!
Every single day, 1,000 mothers — some unaware they carry HIV — transfer the virus to their babies during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding. Without treatment, 50 percent of HIV-positive infants will die before their second birthdays. With your help, we can eliminate pediatric AIDS, and protect mothers and babies worldwide. Lawmakers face many tough budget…
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New Partner Announcement: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
We are so excited to announce a partnership with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation! Founded in 1988, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a worldwide leader in the fight to end pediatric AIDS. The organization works in 15 countries to implement lifesaving HIV programs, to advance pediatric AIDS research, and to advocate on behalf of…
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Today is World TB Day
You probably don’t know that much of the world is adversely affected by the age-old infectious disease, tuberculosis. In fact, it is the second largest killer of adults behind HIV/AIDS and based on data from the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership most children do not get diagnosed with TB because of lack of access to health care.…
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Action Campaign – Help Raise Funds, Awareness About Educating African Children
You may have read our partner feature about the Nyanya Project this weekend. The Nyanya Project is a North Carolina non-profit organization that empowers grandmothers to keep their families together in the face of AIDS devastation. They help African grandmothers form working cooperatives that generate the income necessary to provide healthcare, education and a loving home for their grandchildren.…
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One.org at Sundance
On World AIDS Day 2011 in Washington, DC I met Jeff Daivdoff, the Chief Marketing Officer at One.org. I liked him instantly. Here he is interviewing Sundance Channel EVP Sarah Barnett on activism, the fight against AIDS & advocacy. Watch.