Foundation Blog
News, commentary, and voices in the efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS in children worldwide.
Posted by
Sanyu Nkiinzi
Mbarara, Uganda
October 11, 2011
Photo: James Pursey
The fourth blog in our “Fighting Pediatric AIDS in Uganda” series shares the experience of Musa and Sawua, a couple that received HIV-positive test results from Rugazi Health Centre in southwestern Uganda. Read about the steps they took after learning their HIV-positive status, and their plans for healthy living in the future, in the post after the jump.
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Posted by
Sanyu Nkiinzi
Mbarara, Uganda
October 10, 2011
Photo: James Pursey
The third blog in our “Fighting Pediatric AIDS in Uganda” series explores the unique way one psychosocial support group is educating its community about HIV/AIDS. The RUPLWA group, or Rukoni People Living with HIV Association, is a drama and dance support group that travels around Ntungamo district using the power of performance to educate and change attitudes about HIV/AIDS. The group’s leader, Godfrey, shares his thoughts on the group’s involvement with the community in the blog after the jump.
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Posted by
Jen Pollakusky
Washington, D.C.
October 7, 2011
This week, we’re reading about new HIV/AIDS research that raises concerns about a link between injected contraceptive use and HIV transmission.
A recent study, published earlier this week in the British medical journal, The Lancet, followed a group of nearly 3,800 discordant couples – in which one partner, either male or female, is HIV-positive and the other is HIV-negative – around Africa for two years to determine whether a correlation exists between the use of injected contraceptives and an increased risk of HIV transmission.
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Posted by
Sanyu Nkiinzi
Mbarara, Uganda
October 7, 2011
Photo: James Pursey
The second blog in our “Fighting Pediatric AIDS in Uganda” series comes from Bashil and Lehema, a couple from southwestern Uganda who recently visited Kitwe Health Clinic IV in Ntungamo district to receive HIV testing. Read about their decision to get tested and the nerve-wracking experience of waiting for their results, after the jump.
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Posted by
Jen Pollakusky
Washington, D.C.
October 7, 2011
A young child waits to be seen by a
doctor in South Africa. (Photo: EGPAF/
Jon Hrusa)
HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) affect thousands of children around the world every year. Yet, TB in children remains a largely overlooked and neglected issue. If left untreated, TB and HIV can prove a deadly combination for children.
Last month, Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION) published a report on childhood TB, which highlights some of the issues and challenges that children living with TB face. The Foundation recently worked with ACTION to post a guest blog on how children are affected by TB and HIV.
Click through to read the guest post.
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Posted by
Sanyu Nkiinzi
Mbarara, Uganda
October 6, 2011
Photo: James Pursey
Deep in southwestern Uganda, nestled in a small hook of land that dips below the rest of the country into an area bordering Rwanda and Tanzania, sits Ntungamo District, a community profoundly affected by the AIDS epidemic.
It’s in Ntungamo, and 12 other districts in southwestern Uganda, that the Foundation is collaborating with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the government of Uganda, and other partners in an innovative HIV prevention, care, and treatment initiative called STAR-SW.
Click past the jump to read a series of blogs featuring the voices of health care workers, patients, mothers, and community advocates that have joined the efforts of the STAR-SW partners to stop the spread of HIV, and to eliminate pediatric AIDS.
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