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2025 by the Numbers

Published December 2025

This year was marked by disruptions, but we remained committed to our mission. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, EGPAF staff worked tirelessly to provide prevention, testing, care, and treatment services to children and their families.  

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General

Countries:

Cameroon,

Côte d’Ivoire,

Democratic Republic of Congo,

Eswatini,

Kenya,

Lesotho,

Malawi,

Mozambique,

Nigeria,

Tanzania,

Uganda,

Zimbabwe

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Top Social Media Moments of 2025  

Published December 2025

As we reflect on the year, we are looking back at some of our favorite social media stories. Individually these pieces of content may seem small, but together they tell EGPAF’s story of resilience and dedication to ending pediatric AIDS.

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General

Countries:

United States

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Top Media Moments of 2025  

Published December 2025

Throughout 2025, EGPAF worked closely with journalists and media houses across the world to tell the story of the foreign aid cuts and the fight against pediatric HIV. Our experts, leaders, and clients acted as expert sources in a period of vast misinformation and confusion.

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General

Latest

The most recent stories, resources, press releases, and media coverage from EGPAF.

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Still Fighting

Published January 2026

After a year of global aid freezes, cuts, and disruptions, we followed up with some of the people who are still fighting for an AIDS-free generation.

Topics:

Advocacy,

HIV

Countries:

Cameroon,

Eswatini,

Malawi,

Uganda,

United States

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The Visionary

Published January 2026

After a year of disruptions, Caspian Chouraya, MD, sees the way forward to achieving a future when no child is born with HIV. But the path has changed dramatically. 

Topics:

Children,

Health System Strengthening,

HIV

Countries:

Eswatini

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The Advocate

Published January 2026

One year after the reassessment of U.S. foreign aid, Conner says that she is heartened by the resilience she sees in national responses and civil society organizations who have carried on through a chaotic year.

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Advocacy,

Children,

HIV

Countries:

United States

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The Storyteller

Published January 2026

David Kamkwamba recognizes that things cannot go back to how they were before, but after a year of disruptions, he is urging leaders to develop a sustainable roadmap.

Topics:

Advocacy,

HIV

Countries:

Malawi

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The Mother

Published January 2026

After a year of disruptions, Mary, a mentor mother from Uganda, just wants leaders to listen to people living with HIV.

Topics:

HIV,

Mothers and Infants,

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT)

Countries:

Uganda

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 The Volunteer

Published January 2026

After a year of disruptions, community health volunteer Ismail Harerimana is fighting for community links to be reestablished.

Topics:

Children,

Differentiated Service Delivery,

HIV

Countries:

Uganda

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The Activist

Published January 2026

Elina Mwasinga is thinking outside the box and calling on leaders to do the same, one year after aid cuts impacted Malawi’s HIV response.

Topics:

Advocacy,

HIV

Countries:

Malawi

The Doctor

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The Doctor

Published January 2026

When the Stop Work order happened, Dr. Nitcheu and his patients were really worried. But one year later, he has hope.

Topics:

HIV

Countries:

Cameroon

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5 Questions with Dr. Doris Macharia  

Published January 2026

How did you start your career? Have you always focused on fighting for HIV?  I did not plan to make HIV the focus of my medical career. But, as a young internal medicine resident, starting out in the late 1990s, it was inescapable. HIV was ravaging Kenya, where I am from, and many other countries across the African continent.   The epidemic filled hospital wards; […]

Topics:

General,

HIV

Countries:

United States

Beyond+ Podcast

Beyond+ shares voices and stories of individuals around the world living with or affected by HIV.

More than 40 years after the emergence of the HIV pandemic, multiple generations are growing up and growing older with HIV—loving and striving and coping and thriving.

We want to know, what is beyond an HIV diagnosis today? What is beyond the clinic? What is beyond adolescence? What is beyond loss? What is beyond graduation? What takes you beyond this moment?

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In the News

Explore EGPAF’s most recent press releases, media mentions, and interviews with our experts. Follow along as we elevate critical conversations in global health. To arrange an interview or to learn more, email our Media Director, Hayde Adams, at hadams@pedaids.org.

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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Receives $1.5 Million from Gates Foundation to Strengthen U.S. Leadership in Global Health 

Published October 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 2, 2025  — The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) has received a $1.5 million award from the Gates Foundation to launch Common Ground for Global Health, a new initiative aimed at revitalizing bipartisan support for U.S. global health programs, with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health, and HIV.   Reaching a New Generation of […]
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Mother Jones: State Department Cables Reveal the Harrowing Consequences of Elon Musk’s USAID Demolition

Published June 2025

In response to inquiries from Mother Jones, a State Department spokesperson said that, “Following the Secretary’s approval for lifesaving PEPFAR programs, PEPFAR program implementers who are providing lifesaving treatment and prevention of mother to child transmission services were notified and urged to resume approved service delivery,” and that ”[a]gencies have been working with their implementers to resume […]

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Saving Lives at Birth in Central and Southwest Uganda

Published August 1, 2018

Of the 120,000 HIV-exposed infants (HEI) born every year in Uganda, over 50,000 lack proper access to Nevirapine (NVP) during their first few months of life. NVP is not only hard to distribute to women in rural communities, but its high-viscosity and stickiness make it difficult to measure and ultimately…

Topics:

Pediatric HIV

Countries:

Uganda

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Thanks to Point-of-Care Early Infant Diagnosis HIV-Positive Mothers in Victoria Falls Have Less to Worry About

Published July 22, 2018

Evelyn Nkomo is a 36-year-old mother of two living in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Every day she is reminded of her HIV-positive status when she takes her antiretroviral [ARV] medication. While she knows that she can manage the virus, she has been careful to avoid transmitting it to her sons during…

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General,

Mothers and Infants

Countries:

Zimbabwe

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His Majesty King Mswati III Applauds EGPAF for Work in Eswatini

Published July 19, 2018

On July 20, 2018, His Majesty King Mswati, made an impromptu visit to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s offices at the Sincephetelo MVA Office Park in Eswatini. The day will be recorded as one of the most historic days for EGPAF in Eswatini. His Majesty, who was…

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General

Countries:

Eswatini

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2018 Dance Marathon Top Fundraiser Trip to Tanzania: Part 2

Published July 16, 2018

I just got home after traveling for 37 hours from Kilimanjaro, Tanzania to Dallas, Texas. On our journey back , I had plenty of time to reflect on the 2018 Top Fundraiser Trip. It’s hard to put in words… as cliché as it might sound, it feels indescribable. But I’ll…

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General

Countries:

Tanzania

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2018 Dance Marathon Top Fundraiser Trip to Tanzania: Part 1

Published July 1, 2018

Hey y’all! My name is Emma Paine, and I’m the winner of the 2018 Up 4 The Fight Trip to Africa! This week, I will be accompanying the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) team to visit their sites in Tanzania. I consider myself very lucky to have been granted…

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General

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Saving Lives Through Quality Improvement

Published June 27, 2018

As a boy, Hannock Matupi felt a calling to help disadvantaged people—which eventually motivated him to become a clinician. After several years of work in the public health sector, Hannock came to see how gaps in service frustrated and even harmed his patients. Failing equipment, insufficient infrastructure, drug shortages, and…

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General

Countries:

Malawi

EGPAF's Chip Lyon's speaking to the U.S. Senate

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EGPAF Celebrates 30 Years with Capitol Hill Reception

Published June 24, 2018

More than 30 years ago, Elizabeth Glaser went to Capitol Hill demanding that Congress pay attention to children with HIV and AIDS. Her purpose was to save the lives of her children, but the advocacy she put in motion has led to the saving of millions of lives of…

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Advocacy,

General

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Full of Hope in Zimbabwe

Published June 18, 2018

Mary is a bright-eyed 6-year-old living in Ngundu, a small town in southern Zimbabwe. Her mother, Varaidzo, is a widow who does her best to provide for Mary and her older son, Peter, through subsistence farming. Varaidzo and Mary are both living with HIV, a situation that would have been…

Topics:

Adolescents,

Pediatric HIV

Countries:

Zimbabwe

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Meet Sarah: A Woman Leading a Health Facility to Rethink How We Provide Quality and Dignified Care in Uganda

Published June 17, 2018

From a young age, Sarah Atuhairwe knew her calling was medicine. “My mother recently reminded me that when I was little, I would play health worker, mixing up grasses I found and pretending to treat my siblings with them.” Many years later, Sarah is a recognized leader in her…

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General

Countries:

Uganda