You Can Help Save Children’s Lives
Today 600 children around the world will be born with HIV/AIDS. That will happen again tomorrow and every day until we have both the resources and the will to end pediatric AIDS. These children need our help! Through the support from the US government and other international donors 1 million babies have been born HIV […]
Youth Health at Risk
While most Americans believe that HIV/AIDS is no longer an issue in the United States, the data tell a different story. Young adults face the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States. And HIV is an STD. According to the US Centers for Disease Control: – Young adults aged 15 to […]
Children’s AIDS Fund International attends 2015 Combined Federal Campaign Kick-off in McLean, VA
The Children’s AIDS Fund International (CAFI) was one of ten charities invited to attend the Farm Credit Administration’s (FCA) Kick-Off event for the National Capital Area, Combined Federal Campaign Celebration (CFC) in McLean, VA. This was the first time CAFI has been invited to attend the FCA’S Charity Kick-off event. This year’s CFC campaign slogan […]
Working Together for a Worthy Cause
Fall has arrived and so, too, have the Federal and State employee charity campaigns. These campaigns allow federal and state employees to donate to their favorite charities and are an important source of revenue for the Children’s AIDS Fund International (CAFI). This year CAFI’S ongoing involvement in these critical campaigns began on September 21, 2015 […]
State Employee Charity Giving Campaigns Begin
Fall heralds the beginning of 2015 State Employee giving campaigns. Similar to the Combined Federal Campaign run by the US government, State campaigns ask employees to donate to one or more organizations on their list of approved charities. Approved organizations are selected based on a variety of program and finance criteria that varies from state […]
School Daze
If your family is anything like ours, you understand and have survived the back-to-school daze. Purchasing new backpacks, paper, pencils, composition books, notebooks, calculators, plus the unique items on each child’s “required” list—which often takes multiple shopping trips as stores run low on special supplies. Walking younger children to the bus stop to be sure […]
South Africa’s Youth Dying from TB and HIV
Just this week we learned that Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death among South African youth in 2013. Released on Monday, The Morbidity and Mortality Patterns Among the Youth of South Africa Report found that natural causes account for 70% of youth mortality, with TB and HIV topping the list of communicable diseases […]
Do You Know Your HIV Status?
One in eight people in the United States who have HIV don’t know it. That means they aren’t getting the medical care they need to stay healthy and avoid passing HIV to others. An estimated 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV, and that number grows by almost 50,000 every year. […]
The Difference a Goat Makes
Over the last several decades the Children’s AIDS Fund International has not only implemented HIV education, treatment and care projects, we have also supported HIV impacted children and their families more broadly, trying to meet comprehensive needs like education, nutrition, marketable skills, parenting education, microenterprise and more. We have given goats to impoverished grandparents raising […]
AIDS is Over, Isn’t It?!
Recently I attended a reception promoting global solutions for a very worthy social issue at which several celebrities were speaking. Each had personal reasons for putting their imprimatur on the project, which were both interesting and compelling. But it struck me when one said, “We’ve already taken care of so many other things—like AIDS—it’s time […]