Foundation Blog
News, commentary, and voices in the efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS in children worldwide.
Posted by
Stephen Lee, MD
Washington, D.C.
January 13, 2012
(Photo: James Pursey)
In many countries, ministries of health are revising national HIV/AIDS guidelines to incorporate recent World Health Organization recommendations that define standards of HIV care and service delivery approaches.
To support those efforts, the Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a set of clinical standard operating procedure (SOP) templates to support HIV prevention and care and treatment services in low-resource settings.
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Posted by
Robert Yule
Washington, D.C.
January 6, 2012
A young child in Swaziland.
Photo: Jon Hrusa
As we start a new year at the Foundation, we wanted to take a moment to look back and pay tribute to a friend we lost at the very end of 2011 – the photographer Jon Hrusa.
You’ve probably seen his name in the photo credits below some truly stunning images throughout our website and in our materials. Based in South Africa, Jon worked with the Foundation for almost a decade documenting the impact of our HIV prevention and treatment programs in the region.
In tribute to Jon, we’ve collected ten of our favorite photos from him, with links to some of the stories behind them.
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Posted by
Robert Yule
Washington, D.C.
December 22, 2011
The Whiffenpoofs with Glee star Darren Criss
(center, red tie). Photo: Harold Levine
Last weekend, the Foundation traveled to New York City for a special holiday concert benefitting our mission to create an HIV-free generation around the world.
We attended the second annual Sing Out, Raise Hope concert, headlined by Yale’s oldest a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs. The Whiffs hosted this sold-out show at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall just a few days after performing at the White House in Washington, D.C.
The special guest of the night was not a fellow student a capella star, but he plays one on TV – Darren Criss from the hit show
Glee.
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Posted by
Denise Alves
Maputo, Mozambique
December 9, 2011
Foundation affiliate Country Director Paula Vaz
(right) with a group of young girls at the
World AIDS Day event in Mozambique.
(Photo: EGPAF/Denise Alves)
December 1st is commemorated around the globe as World AIDS Day, a day to think and reflect about the HIV/AIDS pandemic and remember those lost during the three-decade fight against the disease. More that that though, it is an opportunity to celebrate the positive impact of the work of the Foundation and other partners is having in our collective efforts to eliminate pediatric AIDS in Mozambique and around the world.
Click through the jump to find out what the Foundation's team in Mozambique had in store for youngsters around Maputo.
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Posted by
Stephanie Calves
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
December 8, 2011
ICASA reception.
This week, I joined Foundation staff, partners, and fellow HIV/AIDS organizations at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of the meeting was “Own, Scale-up and Sustain,” with many discussions focused on health systems strengthening and strategies to promote country ownership of HIV/AIDS programs. This theme showed the increasing importance of local response in combating HIV/AIDS. Click past the jump to read more.
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Posted by
Charles Lyons
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
December 7, 2011
Ryan White.
Last week on World AIDS Day -- amid talk about an historic opportunity to create an AIDS-free generation -- we were reminded that the stigma and ignorance surrounding this disease is not necessarily a thing of the past. The news that a 13-year-old boy has been banned from attending a school in Pennsylvania because he is HIV-positive brought back a flood of memories from an earlier and darker time in the history of the AIDS pandemic.
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