Every day this week, we’ll be highlighting a personal story from our new AIDS report, “Progress. Proof. Promise.” Dr. Coceka Mnyani, head of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV program at the Anova Health Institute, South Africa, shares her personal timeline of AIDS progress since 2007.
In Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, a large semi-urban settlement with a population of more than 2 million people, I head the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program at the Anova Health Institute, a President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Research-funded organization with HIV programs across South Africa. The Soweto program to prevent mother-to-child transmission is one of the largest in the country, with close to 8,000 HIV-positive pregnant women seen in the program every year. Where did it all begin? Rewind to four years ago…
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This week, we launched our amazing digital AIDS quilt, (2015)QUILT, to help mark this year’s World AIDS Day in a big way. Each patch on the quilt is a promise to fight for an AIDS-free generation by 2015. And it’s certainly a pretty way of visualizing global support:
You can probably guess what we’re going to ask: create a panel on our quilt. If you’ve already made one, fab — but if not, you better get started. Then, once you’ve made your patch, copy and paste your quilt’s URL into the form below. We’ll choose a quilt patch at random and make it our Facebook profile picture for one whole day!
In case you missed ONE and (RED)’s World AIDS Day event on Twitter earlier today, you can watch a recorded video of our event in the player below. President Obama made a bold commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS, former President George W. Bush and President Jakaya Kikwete joined us from Tanzania, and President Bill Clinton brainstormed real solutions to the AIDS epidemic.
Note that the event starts at 16:20:
In addition, here’s a recap of our World AIDS Day conversation on social media:
Guest blogger Jen Pollakusky of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) shares the amazing story of Florence Ngobeni-Allen, who spoke at ONE and (RED)’s World AIDS Day event this morning. This post was originally published on EGPAF’s Foundation blog.
In honor of World AIDS Day, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and ONE went to Capitol Hill this week to educate policy makers about one of the great success stories in the 30-year fight against AIDS: the ability to prevent virtually all new HIV infections in children.
As you all saw (either in person or via YouTube), President Obama commemorated World AIDS Day this morning by stepping up America’s commitment to the fight against AIDS, both domestically and internationally. In addition to his broad rhetoric on the importance — and feasibility — of ending AIDS, he made a number of specific commitments. The US will:
Is it possible that the success Africa has had, in managing and treating HIV/AIDS, reduced the sting of the HIV pandemic on the continent? The fact is, according to UNAIDS’ latest report, there are more people living with HIV today than there were 10 years ago. Approximately 34 million people live with HIV today, up 17 percent from 2001. In parallel, deaths from AIDS-related illnesses have decreased by 21 percent since 2005.
As part of his efforts to raise awareness this World AIDS Day and to draw global attention to the fight for the beginning of the end of HIV and AIDS, Bono wrote a fantastic op-ed article for the New York Times this morning.
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food.
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS.
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
