Foundation Blog
News, commentary, and voices in the efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS in children worldwide.
Posted by
Robert Yule
Washington, D.C.
February 1, 2011
For mothers living in low- and middle-income countries, breastfeeding is a vitally important source of nutrition for their babies. But for those mothers living with HIV, it is also a potential source of transmission of the virus that causes AIDS.
In recent years, several studies have focused on how to allow HIV-positive mothers to breastfeed more safely and increase their babies’ chances of HIV-free survival.
Click past the jump to read more about a new study reported on by The New York Times and published in the medical journal The Lancet.
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Posted by
Rachel Hinger
Washington, D.C.
January 27, 2011
Every year at universities around the country students come together to participate in dance marathons. Some dance for 12 hours, others dance for as many as 26. But while the amount of hours may differ, their motivation does not. They dance to save lives.
The amount of time each dancer pledges to stay on their feet is meant to represent the emotional and physical challenges faced by children living with HIV, all while raising funds to support the Foundation’s work around the world.
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Posted by
Charles Lyons
Washington, D.C.
January 26, 2011
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I’ve just returned from a week in Harare, Zimbabwe, a country where it is possible that the worldwide momentum toward creating a generation free of HIV will take center stage. Last week, the Foundation officially launched its partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), which awarded us the first year of a five-year, $45 million grant to accelerate scale-up of more effective antiretroviral regimens to reduce HIV transmission from mother to child in Zimbabwe, and to ensure that HIV-positive mothers can access treatment for their own health.
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Posted by
Agnes Mahomva
Harare, Zimbabwe
January 24, 2011
(Photo: James Pursey for EGPAF)
Just a few days ago, the Foundation launched an exciting new partnership in Zimbabwe that will dramatically expand its efforts to eliminate pediatric AIDS throughout the country.
The Foundation's work in Zimbabwe began ten years ago at just three sites, working to bring critical services to prevent HIV-positive pregnant women from passing the virus to their children. Now, a decade later, alongside additional partners, the Foundation works in 815 sites and has reached more than 800,000 women with prevention, care, and treatment services.
Click past the jump to hear Foundation Country Director for Zimbabwe, Agnes Mahomva, talk more about the exciting new partnership, and the real possibility of eliminating pediatric AIDS in her country.
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Posted by
Evan Von Leer
Washington, D.C.
January 21, 2011
In 2002, only three percent of HIV-positive pregnant women were accessing the critical services to prevent transmission of the virus to their babies. Flash forward nearly a decade and the progress is impressive. With the help of the Foundation's USAID-funded Call to Action project, we are now reaching 45 percent of these women.
Earlier this week, IRIN/PlusNews interviewed Foundation country director for Malawi about this progress and what is in store for her country in the future.
Click past the jump for more information and links to the IRIN/PlusNews article.
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Posted by
Maurice Adams
Johannesburg, South Africa
January 17, 2011
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(Photo: James Pursey)At the start of a new year, many of us reflect on the past and consider what the future might bring. At the beginning of 2011, I enter my eighth year with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. It’s been a period of dramatic growth for us, and I’ve seen the positive impact of our work for countless children and mothers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. So, at the beginning of this new year, I gave some thought as to why the Foundation does what it does, why we are committed to the prevention of pediatric HIV transmission, and why we are so involved in Africa.
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