In Malawi, Marching Towards the End of AIDS

Posted by Chip Lyons
Lilongwe, Malawi
March 28, 2013

EGPAF President and CEO Chip Lyons speaks
at the launch of a new EGPAF project
supporting HIV treatment and health systems
strengthening in Malawi.
(Photo: Eric Kilongi/EGPAF)

This week, EGPAF CEO and President, Chip Lyons, traveled to the country offices in Malawi, the first country in Africa to create a policy at the national level using the World Health Organization (WHO)’s “Option B+” strategy, which provides life-long antiretroviral treatment (ART) to all HIV-infected pregnant women regardless of their immunity (CD4) levels.

Let's Talk About It

Posted by Jamie Gentille
Reston, VA
March 28, 2013

The cover of EGPAF Ambassador
Jamie Gentille’s new book, “Surviving HIV:
Growing Up a Secret and Being Positive”

Jamie Gentille, an EGPAF Ambassador, gives us a preview of her newly published memoir Surviving HIV: Growing Up and Secret and Being Positive and shares her inspiring message of hope.

Championing The End of Pediatric AIDS: First Lady of Uganda launches Option B+

Posted by Irene Edith Nabusoba
Kampala, Uganda
March 27, 2013

Children entertain guests at the Option B+
launch in Kampala, Uganda.
(Photo: Irene Nabusoba/EGPAF)

March 22 was a day of promises, recommitments, and pledges to end pediatric HIV infections in Uganda, as the country’s first lady launched Option B+ and a campaign to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV (eMTCT).

Closing the Health Care Gap in Cote d'Ivoire

Posted by Claire O'Connor
Washington, D.C.
March 26, 2013

To date, EGPAF has helped more than 1 million
women access PMTCT services in Cote d'Ivoire.
(Photo: Olivier Asselin/EGPAF)

During a recent trip to Cote d'Ivoire, Country Officer Claire O' Connor, had the opportunity to learn about a program that was started in 2008 by EGPAF in association with the National Institute of Training for Social Workers (INFS). The 9-month program was designed to help all certified social workers learn how to effectively provide psychosocial support for PLHIV and pregnant women in need of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services.

In Aftermath of Heavy Flooding, EGPAF Helps Reopen Health Facilities in Mozambique

Posted by Arsenio Manhice
Maputo, Mozambique
March 25, 2013

(Photo: Arsenio Manhice/EGPAF)

Recently in Mozambique, EGPAF supported numerous health sites as they recovered from devastating floods in Gaza Province in the southern region of the country.

What We're Reading: Supporting Women, HIV in Kenya, and Where We Are in the Hunt for a Cure

Posted by Chelsea Bailey
Washington, D.C.
March 22, 2013

This week, we’re reading about how Kenyans are successfully reducing new cases of pediatric HIV one family at a time; why one HIV specialist is hesitant to use the phrase “functionally cured” when discussing this month’s most buzzed-about news with his patients; and how a simple tool for nonsurgical circumcision could be a “game-changer” in preventing HIV infection.