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 […]
Report Highlights Increased Risk of HIV/AIDS in Adolescent Girls and Young Women
The overall global decline in new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths masks the realities of pockets of high prevalence in specific populations. According to a report just issued by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 15- to 24-year old adolescent girls and young women in eastern and southern Africa–infected at rates two to […]
