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Effectiveness of a Multi-component Facility-based Intervention on HIV-related Infant and Maternal Outcomes
Published April 6, 2025
Introduction Even in the context of widespread access to prevention of vertical HIV transmission (PVT) services, health system challenges compromise health outcomes for women living with HIV and their children. The “Integrated Management Team to Improve Maternal-Child Outcomes” (IMPROVE) study measured the effect of a package of facility-based interventions on…
Countries:
Lesotho
Story
The Heart of Global Health
Published March 30, 2025
Every day, all around the world, health workers are making a difference. Some are on the frontlines providing direct services to people needing care. Others lend their technical skills in labs and pharmacies. Some work on a systems level, ensuring all of the complex pieces of health care are working…
Topics:
General
Countries:
Kenya,
Malawi,
Nigeria,
Tanzania,
Uganda
News
Devex: Why PEPFAR Has Bigger Problems Than Reauthorization
Published March 23, 2025
Even if its authorization is allowed to expire tomorrow, PEPFAR will survive. Instead, the program faces a much bigger problem as a result of cuts to USAID, which administered the majority of PEPFAR services. Read the full article on Devex.
Journal Articles
Assessing Time Requirements of Two Models of SARS-CoV- 2 Screening and Testing in Routine Healthcare Services in Kenya and Cameroon
Published March 23, 2025
Introduction Incorporating SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) into routine care settings can facilitate efficient case identification and management in low-resource settings. We assessed the time required to complete SARS-CoV-2 screening and Ag-RDT testing in maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH), HIV and tuberculosis clinics in selected facilities in Kenya…
Countries:
Cameroon,
Kenya
News
Fortune - The Truth About ‘Condoms for Gaza’: DOGE Canceled $33 million USAID Contract Treating 350,000 HIV patients
Published March 21, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) received a devastating blow when USAID abruptly terminated a number of its contracts, cutting off funding that supported HIV treatment for 350,000 people in Africa. The cuts have led to medicine shortages, unpaid healthcare workers, and a crumbling medical infrastructure. The decision, potentially…
News
The Dispatch: PEPFAR Funding Problems Persist Despite Rubio’s Waivers
Published March 9, 2025
On the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order mandating an immediate “pause” of new foreign aid while programs were evaluated for whether they were “fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States.” And on…
News
Vox: Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people
Published March 7, 2025
A lot has happened in the last six weeks, to put it mildly, and it can be hard to see through the dust and tell what’s actually ongoing. The government threatened tariffs, backed off, then did the tariffs, and then started carving out tariff exceptions for connected-enough constituencies. Read the full article…
News
ProPublica - The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.
Published February 28, 2025
The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. | Read the full article at ProPublica.
News
Salon: "A whole new level of cruelty": Health Experts Decry "Devastating" Cuts to HIV Treatment Programs
Published February 27, 2025
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment. Read the full article at Salon.