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Testing in a Manyatta
It’s 107 degrees Fahrenheit at midday in a village outside of Lodwar, Kenya. Goats and children dash across the sand, while most adults have retreated to the sensible shade of their manyattas,...
View ArticleLife Stories: “My Life Changed With the Prick of a Needle”
I am a 32-year-old nurse, and the mother of four children. I am currently working for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) as a field supervisor in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of...
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EGPAF LAUNCHES EXPRESS HEALTH SERVICES FOR ADOLESCENTS IN KENYA
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), with funding from ViiV Healthcare, launched a new program on June 28, 2016. A one-year, renewable award from ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action...
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ICYMI: Watch our Three Videos from #AIDS2016
It's been a little more than a week and a half since #AIDS2016 wrapped up in Durban, but we're still buzzing with excitement. The 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) was held from July 18...
View ArticleReflections on #AIDS2016: We’ve come a long way, but our work is not done
On Sunday July 17, 2016, my girlfriend Kerry and I touched down in Durban, South Africa. We were greeted with smiles, an amazingly vibrant community, and the familiar sound of waves crashing on the...
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Reflections on #AIDS2016: Momentum must continue, the effort must double
As the 2016 International AIDS Conference wrapped up, a renewed energy was surging through the community of Durban. I was impressed that despite a busy whirlwind week, there seemed to be a harmonious...
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UP 4 THE FIGHT Top Fundraiser Reflects on Trip to Zimbabwe
Hi, it’s Kat again, the 2016 UP 4 THE FIGHT Top Fundraiser. I can’t believe it has been over a month since my trip to Harare, Zimbabwe with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)!...
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Teens Taking Care of Teens
While the global mortality rate of HIV has declined over the past 15 years—due to more cost-effective and increasingly accessible antiretroviral medication (ART)—young people ages 15–24, account for...
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The Human Right to HIV Services
Right now, more than 100 million people around the world, are in need of humanitarian assistance—whether because of natural disaster, civil war, gender-based violence, or some other crisis. World...
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UP 4 THE FIGHT College Fundraisers Prepare for Another Successful Year
Earlier this month, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) hosted eight students from four universities, to share information about the foundation and to prepare for a successful...
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Listening to Deaf People
David Ogoro stands at the head of an improvised classroom at the Kendu Bay Sub-district Hospital, energetically leading a discussion about barriers to HIV adherence. His pupils are keenly engaged and...
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TREATMENT FOR ALL IN KENYA
Walking along the corridors of Ndhiwa Sub County Hospital in Homa Bay, Kenya, Julius Omuga greets patients with hearty handshakes; his presence creating an air of familiarity and warmness. Julius is a...
View ArticleQ & A with First Lady of Ghana and OAFLA President, H.E. Dr. Nana Lordina...
The Organization of African First Ladies (OAFLA) was founded by 37 African First Ladies in 2002 as a collective voice for Africa’s most vulnerable people: women and children infected and affected by...
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On the Road to an AIDS-Free Generation, WhatsApp Shortens the Distance
Turkana, Kenya’s largest county, juts out of Kenya’s barren northwest into Uganda, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. Swaths of the county are regularly beset by drought, flash floods, and bandits. The...
View ArticleSocial Protection for Children Must Benefit Children
On August 25 - 26, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya hosted the second East African Community (EAC) Child Rights conference organized to launch the EAC Child Policy (adopted in March 2016) and to access progress...
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Senior US Officials, Members of Congress & Partners Recommit to Ending...
UNAIDS and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation hosted a high-level Congressional briefing in the United States Senate to increase momentum around an ambitious Super-Fast-Track...
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Five Ways Health Care Workers are Improving HIV Services for their Community...
Despite Malawi’s success in expanding HIV prevention, care, and treatment services, the proportion of people living with HIV who know their HIV status is only 53%; well below the 90% target set in the...
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Counselor on a Motorbike
Alice Tinga welcomes us into her tiny earthen home on the outskirts of a Maasai village near Aitong in Narok County, Kenya. Alice, 37, is one of the founding members of a peer support group for...
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EGPAF Ambassador Josephine Nabukenya Visits Capitol Hill
Last week during her whirlwind visit to the United States, EGPAF Ambassador, Josephine Nabukenya, took time out of her busy schedule to join me on a visit to Capitol Hill. While the Elizabeth Glaser...
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EGPAF Quickens Its Pace in Cameroon
In July 2016, Chip Lyons, the president of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), traveled to Cameroon, for the ribbon cutting of a new office in Youndé, the capital city. EGPAF began...
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A Peer Educator in Rural Malawi
Emily Njerengo is a peer educator in rural Malawi. She is living with HIV; she lost her two children and husband to AIDS-related illnesses. Emily credits a safe motherhood support group with having...
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A Walk Through Points of Care
Hellen Abura, 53, is a businesswoman and mother living in Homa Bay, Kenya. She purchases dagger fish on the beach in Mbita and transports them inland to sell. Hellen has been living with HIV for the...
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Story of Hope: Baby Simon
Tina Louise Dassé has been working as a community counselor since 2009 for Femmes Active, a local organization that works with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) at General...
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EGPAF in Mozambique Implements Communication Campaign to End AIDS
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) in Mozambique is implementing the Accelerating Children Treatment (ACT) initiative in priority districts in the country’s Gaza province....
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EGPAF Celebrates Milestones in Kenya, Launches New 5-Year Project
On October 28, 2016, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) celebrated milestones of its project, Pamoja. Pamoja is the Swahili word for “together”. Funded by the US President's...
View Article“I Was Not Scared to Receive the Results”
Fourteen years ago, at the height of the HIV crisis in Zimbabwe, Linda Ngerenge gave birth to twins. One year later, Linda’s husband and one of her twins passed away because of AIDS-related illnesses....
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EGPAF’s Ariel Clubs Keep Youth Alive
In 1993, when Javis Ndugutse was three years old, he was diagnosed with HIV. At the time, Uganda did not have access to lifesaving antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs. Fortunately, a combination of good...
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Disclosure Means Life
Gertrude Mwiinga, 40, says that she used to be ashamed about living with HIV and was afraid to tell her son, Sholdon, that he, too, had been infected with the virus. However, through the support of...
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Antenatal Care Keeps Ugandan Women and Their Babies Alive
At Kikyenkye Health Centre III near Ibanda, Uganda, I met 26-year-old Janipher Kyarimpa. We sat inside the maternity room, the walls lined with multiple posters about the benefits of antenatal care on...
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Better Care for Tiny Infants
Elise Ngabouloup, the head nurse of the neonatal unit at the Chantal Biya Foundation Mother and Child Center in Youndé, Cameroon, has a close relationship with her patients. Many of the infants arrive...
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