Kenyans Succeeding at Eliminating New HIV Infections in Children

Posted by Chip Lyons
Ndhiwa, Kenya
March 20, 2013

EGPAF President and CEO Chip Lyons
(Photo: EGPAF)

This week, I am visiting our programs in Kenya – a country with the fourth-largest number of people infected with HIV in the world.

The two facilities I visited yesterday in Ndhiwa district of Kenya’s Nyanza region showed me how our work, with support from the U.S President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), is helping to shape the trajectory of HIV/AIDS among children.

Janice and Melissa: Inspiring Commitment

Posted by Taylor Moore
Washington, D.C.
March 20, 2013

Melissa and Janice McCall
(Photo: EGPAF)

Recently, Ambassador Janice McCall sat down with her mom, Melissa, to share their own unique stories of living with HIV. In candid letters to their younger selves, Janice and Melissa wrote of the terror and desperation they felt in the first days, and even years, after their diagnoses. They shared the frightening reality of not knowing what tomorrow would bring, and the compassion from family and friends that kept them motivated to move forward in their lives.

Even In Our Midst: Drawing Parallels Between Rural Africa and Upstate New York

Posted by Chelsea Bailey
Washington, D.C.
March 19, 2013

EGPAF Senior Director of Country
Management, Dr. Stephen Lee.
(Photo: EGPAF)

On February 26, 2013, EGPAF’s Senior Director of Country Management and Support, Dr. Stephen Lee delivered a lecture on the challenges involved in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in rural settings to more than 150 students at State University of New York (SUNY) Potsdam.

Women’s History Month: Join Me in Supporting Women and Girls Affected by AIDS

Posted by Olivia Culpo
New York, New York
March 18, 2013

Miss Universe Olivia Culpo speaking at EGPAF’s
inaugural Global Champions for a Mother’s Fight
gala Feb. 20. (Photo: EGPAF)

"On March 10, we celebrated National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. It was a day to recognize how AIDS affects women and girls in the United States. It was a day to reflect on 30 years of the epidemic, and how it has impacted our young people. It was a day to take a stand." Read more about how Miss Universe 2012 stood with women worldwide to fight for the end of AIDS.

What We’re Reading: Women’s History Month, Living with HIV, and New HIV Strategies for Mothers

Posted by Jane Coaston
Washington, D.C.
March 15, 2013

EGPAF Ambassadors Josephine Nabukenya and
Janice McCall at Dance Marathon 2012 at UCLA.
(Photo: EGPAF)

This week, we’re learning more about how a D.C. organization is fighting for women and girls living with HIV, thinking about the challenges of growing up with HIV, and reading about how an EGPAF Ambassador honored her late daughter.

Rwanda HIV Clinical Services Program End-of-Project Report: Achievements and the Way Forward

Posted by Lior Miller
Los Angeles, CA
March 15, 2013

(Photo: EGPAF, 2013)

This month, EGPAF released an end-of-project report for its work in Rwanda on the USAID-funded HIV Clinical Services Program (HCSP). The HCSP aimed to increase access to high-quality, comprehensive HIV-related clinical services, as well as offerings focused on maternal and child health, family planning and reproductive health, nutrition, and sexual and gender-based violence by supporting health institutions as they provide these services. The report, which you can read here, illustrates EGPAF’s achievements and next steps in Rwanda.