By Johanna Harvey | August 8, 2013
For the second installment of our global health terminology series, we are including the acronyms and abbreviations for some of the major global health non-governmental organizations (NGOs), multilateral, bilateral, and other operating bodies, (Don’t worry, we will define these words below too!)
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By Jane Coaston | August 8, 2013
A volunteer uses a loud speaker to share information and tell the community about an HIV/AIDS testing campaign.
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By Jane Coaston | August 7, 2013
This week is World Breastfeeding Week. Though breastfeeding can be a means of transmitting HIV from mother to child, organizations like EGPAF still promote exclusive breastfeeding to support healthy infants and babies regardless of HIV status.
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By Jane Coaston | August 7, 2013
About.com is a website offering accessible and quality information on thousands of subjects to more than 90 million users every month. Now, the website has created a new resource focused on HIV/AIDS, and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is featured on its first Top 20 listing of the best HIV/AIDS foundations in the United States.
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By Jane Coaston | August 7, 2013
Ryan Darling is a young man in the United States living with HIV. After getting involved in Dance Marathon while attending UCLA, he helped to start Dance Marathon at the College of the Holy Cross. He shares his inspirational story of how Dance Marathon and EGPAF changed his life.
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By Johanna Harvey | August 6, 2013
HIV, ARV, PMTCT, EID, Option B+… WHO? Global health terminology can often seem more like alphabet soup than meaningful abbreviations and phrases. For many people, it can be easy to become overwhelmed and confused by all of the global health jargon. Here at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, also known as EGPAF (another acronym!), we are trying to make life a little easier for our readers. Below are some of the most common and confusing global health acronyms and phrases, with simple and easy-to-remember definitions.
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By Jane Coaston | August 6, 2013
How do you manage human resources for an organization that employs more than 1,000 people around the world? Chrissie Shea, associate director of human resources for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, explains.
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By Jane Coaston | August 5, 2013
August 4 is Ariel Glaser's birthday. She would have been 32 years old this year.
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By Katie Cunningham | August 5, 2013
Here at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), we love a great movie – and three are even better! That’s why we’re so excited that our friends at Lionsgate are auctioning off autographed memorabilia from their upcoming movies, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “I, Frankenstein,” and “You’re Next.”
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By Jane Coaston | August 5, 2013
On Wednesday, July 31, Zimbabweans voted in what many observers have called the most important presidential election since the country gained its independence from Great Britain in 1980.
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