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Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Transmission, and the HIV Reservoir

Published October 8, 2024

Recommendations on breastfeeding by persons living with HIV (PLWH) have shifted globally over time. Because the absolute risk for HIV transmission through breast milk in the absence of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is as high as 16% to 20%, recommendations for low-resource settings in the early 1990s initially emphasized replacement feeding…

Topics:

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT),

Research

Josephine Nabukenya at the US Capitol to meet with lawmakers to discuss funding for PEPFAR.

Story

Josephine's Dream

Published October 7, 2024

Josephine Nabukenya is a founder, leader, and dreamer. Born with HIV, she started using her voice as a child to fight stigma and raise awareness for people living with HIV. Today she leads the Miles of Smiles Foundation, her way of paying forward and continuing to make a difference…

Topics:

General

Countries:

Uganda

Issue Briefs

Building a Future of Health

Published October 2, 2024

An Unspoken Crisis: Children Are Being Left Behind In 2022, one child died every six seconds. The causes of most of those deaths were preventable. This is unacceptable. Whereas countries have the tools and knowledge to end preventable deaths and suffering in children, children face inequalities in access to health…

Topics:

Pediatric HIV,

Tuberculosis (TB)

Little girl's hands

Issue Briefs

Building Trust for Global Health

Published October 2, 2024

Most causes of deaths in children could be prevented with effective treatment and interventions that are feasible for implementation, even in resource-constrained settings. However, appropriate medicines to save and improve the lives of infants and children often do not exist, are unavailable, or are not quality assured. This puts children’s…

Topics:

HIV,

Pediatric HIV

Story

Becoming Aunty Botee

Published September 30, 2024

Assigned Male at Birth Aunty Botee was assigned male at birth and raised as a son until she completed primary school, but she used to hate doing boy’s chores because she felt feminine inside, but her brother will punish her if she refuses to do boys’ chores. She grew-up as…

Topics:

General

Countries:

Lesotho

Issue Briefs

Action Towards a HIV-Free Future

Published September 30, 2024

The urgency of addressing the health needs of children has never been more pressing. Despite significant gains in preventing vertical transmission of HIV, progress has stalled. New HIV infections in children continue to be unacceptably high: In 2023, there were approximately 120,000 new HIV infections among children under five years…

Topics:

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT)

Palm tree in Tanzania

Journal Articles

Clients’ and Providers’ Perspectives in Informing a Digital Health Intervention to Improve Linkage to Care After Index HIV Self‑testing in Hai and Moshi Districts, Tanzania

Published September 22, 2024

Background Digital health interventions have the potential to improve linkage to care after HIV self-testing (HIVST). This study aimed to understand clients’ and providers’ perceptions of benefits, and barriers of a digital health intervention designed to improve linkage to care after HIV self-testing in Tanzania. Methods This exploratory qualitative research…

Topics:

General

Countries:

Tanzania

Story

#YouthLead for the Future

Published September 16, 2024

As leaders from around the world gather for the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, one word is on everyone’s mind: Future. World leaders are responsible for acting and making a better future, but it is young people who will live with the successes or…

Topics:

Adolescents,

General

Countries:

Democratic Republic of Congo,

Eswatini,

Kenya,

Lesotho,

Malawi

Resource

Looking Forward

Published September 15, 2024

Topics:

Adolescents,

Pediatric HIV,

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT)