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To achieve our vision for an AIDS-free generation, The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) implements high-quality and comprehensive HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment services throughout regions of the world most affected by the disease. We work hand-in-hand with country governments and local partners to implement health care programs which offer adult, adolescent, and pediatric HIV prevention, care and treatment; adult, adolescent, and child opportunistic infection treatment; maternal, newborn, and child care; nutrition and general wellness; and sexual and reproductive health services. EGPAF offers these services through both direct management of health facilities and health systems strengthening.
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Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
Mother-to-child HIV transmission, which accounts for more than 90% of new childhood infections, can be reduced to less than 5% by providing a HIV-positive mother access effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) and support services during pregnancy, delivery, and breastfeeding.
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A Malawi Farm Family Blessed with Grace
This year on International Maternal Health and Rights Day we are reminded of the complexities involved in order for a to woman receive quality healthcare. Stigma and discrimination often play a major role in preventing women from accessing the care they require to keep themselves and their families healthy. Read…
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Children Matter in the Fight Against HIV
Each day, about 500 children are newly infected with HIV, and millions require HIV prevention, care, and treatment services. Reaching those children and their mothers is at the core of our mission at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF).
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A Tiny Graduate
Beads of perspiration form on the forehead of 3-year-old Veronica Ebenyo as she dozes in her mother’s lap at the maternal and child health unit of Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Turkana County, Kenya. Elizabeth Ebenyo has brought young Veronica for a check-up and is happy to report that her daughter is up to date on vaccinations and has a healthy weight. EGPAF supports this health unit, as well as the HIV clinic at the hospital.
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Adult HIV Care & Treatment
Creating an accessible and comprehensive platform through which adults can access HIV services is a crucial component of our work. We strive to ensure adults in our care have the support they need to live long and healthy lives through integrated and comprehensive health services, as well as psychosocial support.
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EGPAF Empowers Beneficiaries to Influence Quality of Health Services
Hadija Kanuti has been a client at the health facility in Karatu, Tanzania since it was just a two-room dispensary. Having lived in the small town for the past 45 years, she has seen the facility evolve into its current state with more complex amenities. The facility serves three wards comprising…
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Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
We know that the risk of preventable death or disability decreases substantially when mothers and babies gain access to pre- and postnatal care; skilled birth attendants; reproductive health resources; and HIV prevention, care, and treatment.
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Helping Mothers Deliver Healthy, HIV-Free Babies
During a routine pregnancy examination at a clinic near her home in Moshi, Tanzania, Tatu Msangi was shocked to learn that she was HIV-positive. She was scared for her health and the health of her baby, but determined to fight to keep her daughter HIV-free.
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Health Systems Strengthening
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) recognizes that elimination of pediatric HIV/AIDS cannot be achieved and sustained without strong health systems. 
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Community Engagement
In our efforts to eliminate pediatric AIDS, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) supports innovative models of community involvement to meet the needs of women, children, and families affected by HIV.
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A Mother Mentors Her Rural Community—and Her Children
David and Leah live in a cozy brick house with their four children, surrounded by sunflowers and plots of maize, ground nuts, and soy beans. During the week, David stays on the homestead and tends the crops, while Leah walks several kilometers to the Mchinji District Hospital—where she works as a mentor mother, counseling women at the antenatal care clinic.
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Strategic Information, Evaluation & Research
Improving the collection, accuracy, and use of strategic information for program optimization planning, decision making, and policy development is a key aspect of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) program implementation efforts. Our support for strategic information and evaluation (SI&E) includes a strong focus on capacity-building and increased ownership…
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Show, Don’t Tell
EGPAF used Power BI to create the Data Dashboard. This interactive visualization tool summarizes EGPAF’s core work in HIV prevention, care and treatment services. It supports EGPAF’s efforts to use data to evaluate the efficiency, reach and effectiveness of its programs and communicate that information clearly to a variety of technical and consumer audiences.
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EGPAF Confronts the Tuberculosis Epidemic
Worldwide, Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the top 10 leading causes of death. In 2017, there were an estimated 10 million people living with TB throughout the world. In 2018 alone, TB took the lives of an estimated 1.5 million individuals, including 250,000 persons living with HIV. TB…
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EGPAF’s Work to End the Tuberculosis Epidemic in Children
The Tuberculosis Epidemic Worldwide, Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the top 10 leading causes of death. In 2017, an estimated 10 million people were living with TB throughout the world.1 Drug-resistant TB – a strain unresponsive to effective treatment options – continues to affect a…
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Adolescents and HIV
Adolescents (10–19 years old) and young adults (15–24 years old) represent a growing share of people living with HIV. Although adolescents living with HIV account for only 11% of global prevalence, they represent 44% of new infections.
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EGPAF supports activities in 19 countries, providing 27 million women with services to prevent the transmission of HIV to their babies.

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