Erin Hohlfelder

What have prevention of mother-to-child (PMTCT) efforts to-date in Malawi looked like, and how has the introduction of Option B+ changed that picture?

Until 2011, Malawi had separate PMTCT and adult treatment programs. There were many barriers to scaling up PMTCT, including a lack of access to CD4 counts testing, supply chain challenges, and very limited follow-up for infants exposed to HIV. The Malawi Government’s introduction of Option B+ was a calculated decision designed to improve health outcomes by streamlining, simplifying and integrating health services, thus eliminating many of the barriers to PMTCT.

Whew (or should I say WIW?)—last week made for quite a busy World Immunization Week 2013!  From Abu Dhabi to Washington, D.C., we saw an impressive breadth and depth of news, activities, and accomplishments from many of our partners working to improve access to life-saving vaccines around the world. Now that we’ve had the weekend

With the exception of World AIDS Day, it’s rare to see anything related to HIV/AIDS trending on Twitter, and even rarer still for the trending to happen because of good news.  But the world—online and offline—was abuzz on Monday with exciting news out of the CROI Conference: a young girl in Mississippi had been “functionally

Every time I travel abroad, I find myself thinking, “you should know by now there’s only so much you can learn about global health from behind a desk.” This held true as recently as last week, when I had the privilege of helping staff a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) trip to South Africa.

With Valentine’s Day just a few days away, it’s not surprising to hear phrases like this on the streets of DC. But what is surprising is that they’re not coming from young couples in love—no, they’re coming from the mouths of global health advocates and campaigners. So what’s with all the sentimental feelings and thinly veiled insecurity?

Global Health Corps, an organization that promotes global health equity by connecting outstanding young leaders worldwide with organizations working on the frontlines, recently announced that it is opening up the application process for a fifth class of fellows for 2013 to 2014.  I had a chance to talk to Barbara Bush, co-founder of Global Health Corps (GHC),

I had a chance to interview Dr. Huma Abbasi, Chevron general manager of corporate health and medical, on Chevron’s HIV/AIDS policies and programs. Chevron has been battling AIDS for 25 years. It was the first oil and gas company to institute a global HIV/AIDS policy for employees in 2005, and since then, the company has

This morning — less than two weeks before World AIDS Day — UNAIDS released their annual Global Report, which provides a comprehensive look at where we stand in the AIDS epidemic. As always, it’s stacked with useful data on a variety of topics, but this year’s report doesn’t include many of the new headline stats