This past May I traveled to Zambia and had the chance to see my taxpayer dollars hard at work – saving and improving lives. I wanted to see, and learn, how “combination prevention” helps stop the spread of HIV. Read more >>
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A Gamechanger: Using Vaginal Rings to Deliver HIV Prevention
The contraceptive vaginal ring has certainly sparked the interests of scientists working on HIV prevention, since use of a vaginal ring to deliver anti-HIV drugs would be a huge benefit in the fight against HIV, particularly for women. Read more>>
The 500 Pound Gorilla: Addressing the Structural Drivers of HIV
AIDSTAR-One is funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and provides rapid technical assistance to USAID and U.S. Government country teams to build effective, well-managed, and sustainable HIV and AIDS programs, and promotes new leadership in the global campaign against HIV. During the recent [...]
African Leaders Call for Scale up Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in East and Southern Africa
Dr. Emmanuel Njeuhmeli is the Senior Biomedical Prevention Advisor with USAID and Co-Chair of PEPFAR’s Male Circumcision Technical Working Group. Scientific advances in the treatment and prevention of HIV infection over the past years have created unprecedented optimism that the fight against the HIV/AIDS. Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention is one such [...]
The Journey of Life for Children Living with HIV – From Diagnosis to Adulthood
Not long ago, it was expected that children living with HIV would not survive to adulthood. Today, children living with HIV are thriving through adolescence into adulthood, and doing so in large numbers. Read more >>
From Evidence to Action: What Works for Women and Girls
In Lesotho and other southern African countries, the HIV/AIDS epidemic remains a painful reality. Read more >>
USAID in the News
Weekly Briefing (6/18/2012 – 6/22/2012) June 18: Last Friday, The Guardian published a story highlighting the importance of advancing water supply and sanitation. USAID’s Chief Innovation Officer, MauraO’Neill, cited the benefit of working with the private sector to address development needs. “Increasingly, we are co-creating solutions [with private companies] around a big, difficult development problem,” O’Neill says. USAID is [...]
Protecting Mothers and Children From HIV: A Call to Action
Originally published at the Huffington Post. At this point in history, there is no reason why children should be born with HIV. Yet 390,000 infants around the globe were born with the virus in 2010. Science has long established that providing mothers with antiretroviral drugs can prevent them from transmitting the virus to their children [...]
New Partners Initiative: Empowering Civil Society, Faith-based Groups, and Communities to Fight HIV
By Elizabeth Baldwin, Analyst/Activity Manager for the Office of HIV/AIDS Earlier this year, I attended two meetings in Johannesburg and Kampala to celebrate the end of the HIV/AIDS New Partners Initiative (NPI) – an interagency President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program totaling $200 million and spanning Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Helping build [...]
Nothing About Them, Without Them: Including Youth in Transition Services for Adolescents Living with HIV
Heather Bergmann, of John Snow Inc., is the Technical Officer for USAID’s AIDSTAR-One project No one born since 1985 knows a world without HIV. Nearly half of the world’s population is under 25, and far too many of these young people know all too well how the virus can devastate a family or community. I [...]
