Children living with HIV need more than antiretroviral medicine. They need psychological and social support to combat fear and stigma and to lead healthy and happy lives. Keep reading
On Sunday, October 25, 2015, celebrities including Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Melissa Joan Hart, Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott, Hannah Simone, James Van Der Beek, Alyson Hannigan, and many more joined EGPAF to celebrate its 26th annual ‘A Time for Heroes’ family festival. Since 1989, A Time for Heroes has raised more than $35 million to support EGPAF’s mission to end AIDS in children. Keep reading
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) is proud to announce its participation in the National Forum on the State of the Ugandan Child. This meeting, which brings together health service delivery partners from around the world, will bring Uganda closer to its goal of ensuring that every child is given the right to live a long and healthy life. Keep reading
On Saturday, September 26, a day after the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by UN Member States in New York, PEPFAR announced investments of nearly half a billion dollars to support new HIV prevention targets that will dramatically expand access to HIV treatment and greatly reduce incidence among adolescent girls and young women. The targets will also strategically align $300 million in additional prevention investments in support of their DREAMS partnership and related efforts. Keep reading
This week marks the historic visit of Pope Francis to the USA. During his first stop in Washington, DC at a White House welcoming ceremony, the Pope called on all American women and men of good will to “support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate integral and inclusive models of development, so that our brothers and sisters everywhere may know the blessings of peace and prosperity which God wills for all his children”. Keep reading
Join EGPAF in Culver City California on Oct. 25, 2015 for our 26th annual “A Time For Heroes” family festival. The festival’s venue, Smashbox Studios, will offer state-of-the-art design and technology as a backdrop for the fun activities that kids of all ages will enjoy with their families. Keep reading
Today, EGPAF and UNITAID announced an exciting new initiative that will rapidly scale-up early infant diagnosis efforts in nine EGPAF countries. Working in partnership with ministries of health in the project countries, the initiative aims to test more than 215,000 infants for HIV, reaching approximately 30 percent of unmet testing needs in these countries and saving as many as 27,000 lives. Keep reading
EGPAF Ambassador Martha Cameron shares her personal story recieving care through the Ryan White CARE Act. Keep reading
HIV advocate and EGPAF Ambassador Ashley Rose Murphy courageously shares her personal story on living with HIV and why youth voices need to be heard, as the world gears up to set the global health and development agenda for the next 15 years. Keep reading
