Aids in Africa

A Thank You to Mothers for Fighting for an HIV-Free Generation

Chip Lyons | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Aids, Women's Health, Hiv, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, AIDS in Africa, Pediatric HIV/AIDS, Impact News
Chip Lyons

Mothers are not just our clients and our patients. They are full partners in our efforts to end pediatric AIDS -- particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of new pediatric infections occur.

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Getting Louder in the Call for an AIDS-Free Generation

Chip Lyons | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: AIDS Prevention, HIV Babies, Pepfar, Aids, Pmtct, Hiv, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, AIDS in Africa, HIV Mothers, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Aids Speech, Impact News
Chip Lyons

The fact that an HIV-positive woman can have an HIV-negative baby is one of the greatest but least known success stories in the 30-year fight against AIDS.

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Finding a Reason to Dance

Elisa Morgan | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: ONE Campaign, AIDS in Africa, Kenya, AIDs Epidemic, Onemoms, Video, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Elisa Morgan

I hadn't expected joy. Because in Kenya, moms and babies are dying. Way too many. The stats are alarming.

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On Health Home Visits and Being a Life-Changer

Karen Walrond | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Usaid, AIDS in Africa, Kenya, AIDS Testing, Kisumu, Onemoms, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Karen Walrond

2011-08-10-Screenshot20110810at12.23.10PM.jpg Since 2008, this home health program has recruited and trained 150 counselors who continue to go door-to-door to provide counseling, testing and household education.

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Love, Above All: Thank Heaven for Little Girls

Regina Weinreich | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Life, Oliver Schmitz, Above All, Khomotso Manyaka, HIV in Africa, Black Voices, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, South Africa Aids, South Africa HIV, Life Above All, AIDS in Africa, Arts News
Regina Weinreich

Life, Above All, a film set in a small South African township, offers a rare glimpse into a community ravaged not only by HIV/AIDS but prejudices that prevent addressing the problem.

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UN's HIV Prevention Strategy Targets Young People

AP | By DONNA BRYSON | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, United Nations Aids, Global Health, Aids Prevention Strategies, Africa, Aids, HIV in Africa, HIV Prevention, Hiv, African Aids, AIDS Prevention, Young People and Aids, AIDS in Africa, Healthy Living News

JOHANNESBURG -- When AIDS counselor Patience Ncusani urges teens in her Soweto neighborhood to wait to have sex, or cautions young women that an older...

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The Global Fund Got It Right On Corruption

Andrew Daley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AIDS in Africa, The Global Fund, Impact News
Andrew Daley

The critics will scream fraud, but what they should be screaming is thank god there is a group that is doing business in Africa that is actually watching where the money goes.

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Understanding the AIDS Epidemic in Africa

Wendy Cross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Nextaid, AIDS Orphans, World Aids, Dennilton, AIDS in Africa, Wendy Cross, Mpumalanga, Impact News
Wendy Cross

Another World AIDS Day has come and gone. This day serves as a call to action to remember the millions of people in communities all around the world that are affected by HIV and AIDS.

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Researchers Say There's Hope For South Africa AIDS Fight

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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JOHANNESBURG — Reversing South Africa's AIDS epidemic may be impossible but there is reason for hope, a researcher who has mapped the cost of co...

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EMPOWE(RED) BY THE LAZARUS EFFECT CAMPAIGN

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: (Product)RED, Bono, AIDS in Africa, Impact News
James Boyce

In the midst of the collective sadness about the situation and the devastation in the Gulf, tonight in New York City, there will be a moment, a bright...

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"The Other City" -- AIDS in America, Nearly 30 Years Later

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Washington DC, Larry Kramer, AIDS in Africa, Aids in America, Politics News
Jose Antonio Vargas

The story of AIDS in America, nearly 30 years after we first heard of the disease, is really the story of American identity itself. Or, more to the point, the story of America's underclass as seen through a virus.

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Kick. Score. Save.

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AIDS in Africa, (RED), HIV/AIDS, Penalty Shootout, World Cup 2010, World Cup, Yahoo, Impact News
James Boyce

In honor of the World Cup, Yahoo! has created a great game called the Penalty Shootout. For every goal scored tomorrow, Yahoo will give $1 to The (RED) Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa.

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The Life Changing Impact of 40 Cents a Day

Concillia Muhau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV in Africa, Aids, Global Fund, Hiv, (Product)RED, AIDS in Africa, Antiretroviral Drugs, Video, Impact News
Concillia Muhau

People all over the world should know that that 40 cents can give a person with HIV/AIDS the drugs that will help them live.

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Uganda's Anti-Gay Law: Opposition Grounded in Bipartisan Confluence of Human Rights and Public Health

Dr. Mark Dybul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unaids, Uganda, Anti-Gay Laws, Hiv, Africa, Rick Warren, Obama, Obama Administration, Aids, AIDS in Africa, World News
Dr. Mark Dybul

Gay men and women cannot be legislated out of existence. The practical impact of a proposed anti-gay law will be to undermine Uganda's efforts to combat its HIV epidemic.

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U2 Energizes Chicago During North American Tour Kickoff

Ari Bendersky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aung San Suu Kyi, No Line on the Horizon, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Soldier Field, U2, Bono, U2 360 Tour, U2 World Tour, The Edge, AIDS in Africa, U2 Chicago, U2 Soldier Field, Chicago News
Ari Bendersky

As with everything U2 does, this show was big. Big stage. Big lights. Big sound. Big messages. But this show was played, for lack of a better term, in the round.

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(RED) at Work in Rwanda

Susan Smith Ellis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Rwanda, Product (Red), AIDS in Africa, (RED), 100 Days, Healthy Living News
Susan Smith Ellis

I've just returned from my first visit to Rwanda, where (RED) funds have been hard at work. A friend once told me that Rwanda either breaks your heart or fills you with hope. I came away hopeful.

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