“I’m Devoting Myself to This”
Emma Dzonzi Nyirenda is an HIV-positive peer educator… Keep reading
An Expert Patient
Immaculate Akinyi Onditi, an HIV-positive mother of three HIV-free children refuses to be stigmatized by the disease -- choosing instead to inspire others. Keep reading
What It’s Like Living As An HIV-Positive Teen
EGPAF Ambassador, Ashley Rose Murphy, recently sat down with SELF Magazine to talk about what life has been like growing up with HIV. Keep reading
Health on Wheels
Six young boys lounge in the shade of an acacia grove that serves as the entrance to Napuu, a village on the outskirts of Lodwar, Kenya. In the distance, dust rises behind a lorry trundling across the sand. As it nears, the boys excitedly jump up and run to the village, carrying news of the arrival of the Beyond Zero mobile clinic. Within the hour, their mothers will return with them for vaccinations. Keep reading
Looking Back at 2016: Highlights from Our Fight to End AIDS
This week we're reflecting on all the work that we've done to end AIDS in children in 2016, and we're looking forward to continuing the work in 2017. We've selected some of our favorite blogs from the year, so we hope you'll check it out and enjoy. Happy New Year from all of us at EGPAF! Keep reading
Feed the Future
The first 1,000 days of life—from pregnancy to 2 years of age—is a critical period for health and survival. Adequate maternal and child nutrition during this period is crucial for both cognitive and physical development. Stunting, in particular, affects brain development and is associated with lower cognitive abilities, poor school performance, and lower earnings throughout life. Keep reading
Early Infant Diagnosis in Lesotho: Bringing the Test to the Baby
The training room at the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Health Centre in the dusty border town of Maputsoe, Lesotho, is filled with women dressed in white. Several of them crowd around a cube-shaped machine, small enough to fit inside a plastic grocery bag, on the tabletop at the front. Keep reading
Getting to an AIDS Free Generation
Success in the fight to end AIDS in children has shown that effective partnership and persistent country leadership can produce transformational results – yet there is unfinished business. Keep reading
Focus on Children to Defeat AIDS Epidemic
In the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when the virus and the disease it caused were still largely a mystery, Elizabeth Glaser was among hundreds of women who faced a nightmare scenario. In 1981, via a blood transfusion during childbirth, she contracted HIV. She would unknowingly pass the virus to her two children: Her daughter Ariel, through breast milk, and later, her son Jake, in utero. She died in 1994. Keep reading
