EGPAF-South Africa Staff, Beneficiaries, and Friends Celebrate Project HEART
Posted January 31, 2012
Last week, EGPAF-South Africa marked the conclusion of eight successful years of a groundbreaking HIV prevention, care, and treatment program called Project HEART. A celebratory event in Johannesburg highlighted the program’s achievements in South Africa: more than 215,000 people received HIV care and support services, and well over half a million women received PMTCT services, averting at least 30,000 pediatric HIV infections.
Photo: Matthews Mathibe's mother, Grace, accessed services to prevent mother-to-child transmission made possible by Project HEART. As a result Matthews was born healthy and HIV-free. (Heather Mason)
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