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 […]
