Jamie Gentille, an HIV/AIDS advocate who works with organizations like ONE and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, shares her experience growing up HIV-positive.  When I was a kid, my life was a secret.  I couldn’t tell my friends that I contracted HIV from a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery when I was three. I couldn’t

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation‘s President and CEO Charles Lyons shares his experience in the Kingdom in the Sky. I have just returned from the Kingdom of Lesotho, a country entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa; a country that’s about the size of  Maryland, but has a strong reputation for providing important lessons

Jamie Gentille, an HIV-positive AIDS activist, urges ONE members to continue the progress on ending HIV/AIDS. Thirty years ago, at the age of three, I was infected with HIV through a blood transfusion during open heart surgery. Before the operation, the first three years of my life were spent in hospitals, treating a significant heart

ONE has been honored to partner with EGPAF over the years, including on our 2011 World AIDS Day event, and coming up this weekend, we’re thrilled to be a partner at their event “A Time for Heroes” in California. As we gear up for the event, read this moving piece from Elizabeth Glaser’s son Jake

Last week, nearly 150 ONE super-members were in Washington, D.C., for ONE’s 2012 Power Summit, a four-day advocacy extravaganza. What makes you get out of bed every day in the morning? What makes you put one foot in front of the other during the day? What makes you go to sleep with a smile on

Last week, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) celebrated the transition of Project HEART to local partners, after eight years of putting hundreds of thousands of patients on life-saving ARV treatment.   Kevin Kouassi, Community HIV Counselor from Dimbokro, Cote d’Ivoire, and Project HEART beneficiary, counsels a young pregnant woman about prevention of mother-to-child

Today, the Global Health Council hosted a panel discussion on gender, HIV, and why women matter in regard to the disease. In many areas of the world, women and girls are disproportionately affected by the pandemic as they face barriers to prevention, treatment, and care. Three distinguished activists in the fight against HIV/AIDS presented reasons

Here’s a World AIDS Day post from our friends at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The photos are courtesy of Jon Hrusa/EPA. I work in the communications department at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and World AIDS Day is one of the busiest days of the year for us. But this World AIDS

Yesterday, within the robust walls of the US Capitol, four important players in the game of private-sector organizations met to discuss the importance of public-private partnerships, as well as US federal funding, to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa. Olutosin Akinyode and I attended the forum. Lisa Bohmer (Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation), Maurice Middleberg (Global Health