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. Keep reading

Tunaweza: Together We Can – Jake Glaser Travels to Tanzania with EGPAF

Last month, as I boarded a flight to Tanzania, I reflected on my first visit to the country over 11 years ago. It was my first glimpse of the work the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) implements around the world. Before my visit, I could have never imagined the reach our organization. I also could have never imagined the impact of the support it was providing to communities in Tanzania that were energetic, empowered, and willing to work together. I had dubbed the theme of that trip “Together we can.” Keep reading

Stephen Lee, M.D.: “Our Patients Are Not Just Statistics”

Stephen Lee, M.D., often thinks about John, an HIV-positive patient whom he admitted to the Emergency Room at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San José, Calif. Now the vice president of Program Implementation and Country Management for EGPAF, Lee was a medical resident when he treated John in the early 1990s. Keep reading

Ending Epidemics Briefing on Capitol Hill

This week on Capitol Hill EGPAF joined Path, Results, and Friends of the Global Fight to educate lawmakers and Congressional staff about critical U.S. investments to end HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis around the world. Keep reading

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. Keep reading

Fighting For An HIV-Free Generation

For more than 25 years, Johnson & Johnson has partnered with EGPAF to eliminate mother-to-child-transmission of HIV in India and seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Johnson & Johnson supports EGPAF in its ability to direct resources and fill key service delivery gaps to achieve maximum impact of health programs. One such program is the New Horizons Advancing Pediatric HIV Care initiative, a multi-sectoral collaboration that aims to improve and enhance HIV/AIDS treatment for children living with the virus through increased awareness and research, health systems strengthening and improved access to medicines. Keep reading