The Story of the Beads
A TRUE STORY ABOUT YOUNG MOTHERS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE More than 20 years ago, in Uganda, a young woman in her twenties laid on her deathbed. Abandoned by her husband, after having infected her with HIV, she was left alone to care for her three young children. Because of her deteriorating health, she lost […]
A Grandmother Caring for Two Sets of Twins
The impact of HIV/AIDS continues in lives of children and those who care for them in Uganda. In one slum in the heart of Kampala, a grandmother struggled to care for two sets of twins who had been abandoned because their parents died of HIV/AIDS. With no income she struggled to keep them alive by […]
State of Children’s HIV
For the first time in the HIV/AIDS epidemic we are on the verge of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of the virus. In fact, CAFI is participating in the joint UNAIDS/UNICEF/PEPFAR “Countdown to Zero” campaign that has laid out a plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keep their mothers alive. Early in […]
