Posts Archive, 2012

• 4 African programs that are lifting HIV-positive people out of poverty

  I’m no HIV/AIDS expert, but I know that it’s incredibly hard for people living with HIV and their families to rise out of poverty for many reasons: decreased productivity as a result of being sick, stigma and discrimination, or the death of family members who would have helped young people to learn a trade. Agriculture, which is a source of income and food for two-third of Africans, and nutrition, which is key to getting well, staying well and being productive, are intricately linked to poverty in Africa.

• What We’re Reading: Why the world is ignoring Congo war

  CNN: Why the world is ignoring Congo war – “The wars in [The Congo] have claimed nearly the same number of lives as having a 9/11 every single day for 360 days, the genocide that struck Rwanda in 1994, the ethnic cleansing that overwhelmed Bosnia in the mid-1990s, the genocide that took place in Darfur,

• Why the world is off-track on AIDS — and how 2013 gives us hope

  I still remember how I felt on World AIDS Day one year ago: filled with hope. I spent the morning listening to celebrities, CEOs, faith leaders, members of Congress, and three US presidents do something rare in DC: agree with one another. What was even more inspiring was that the bold vision they all touted in their remarks —“the beginning of the end of AIDS”— for the first time no longer felt impossible, coming off a year filled with new scientific data suggesting that we had the tools to finally begin breaking the back of the pandemic.

• Submit a video to our ‘It starts with me’ YouTube series

  Each of us can mark the turning point in our lives when we decided that standing on the sidelines wasn’t good enough. When we chose to stop being part of the problem and to start being part of the solution. And we all have a personal story — the moment, the epiphany, the inspiration, the