A little girl in a dark red dress runs around laughing. Her mother tries to catch her, before she trips on her ruffles and falls. Florence picks up Nicole and dries her tears. A tender and loving moment between a mother and her young daughter, who is learning to discover the world. A sight like so many others. But this scene has a twist to it: Florence is HIV+ and Nicole is not.
The pair lives in the Millennium Village of Sauri, Western Kenya, and made the trip to Nairobi -- Nicole's first into the big capital city -- to share . . . [more]
Teams from the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and several UN bodies met in Nairobi in February to review the progress registered so far in the partnership launched a year ago between UNAIDS and the Project. The aim of the MTCT Free Zones Initiative is to establish zones where transmission of HIV from mother to child is essentially eliminated. This is part of a broader call towards virtual elimination . . . [more]
Five years ago, Falanes Josephat hit rock bottom: she suspected her husband of being HIV positive, got tested and found out she was too. In poor, rural Malawi, this meant one thing: death. And, in her case, leaving behind four small children with the bleakest of futures. 'I was depressed. I thought I would die fast,' says the 38 year-old mother.
Five years on, not only is she still . . . [more]
The past year has been very rich for the Mwandama health team, which worked toward increasing access to health services and implementing innovative interventions. We are very proud of one major achievement: the completion of the Maera and Mwandama clinics as well as the Katete health post, and we look forward to inaugurating them once running water, solar power and staff . . . [more]
It is 10:50 am on a cloudless August day in Western Kenya. The HIV and AIDS Counselor from Sauri Health Centre and I have taken the short drive to the home of Lilian Awino Adhiambo, a 32 year old mother of 6 children aged 9 months to 13 years.
At first sight, this is just another busy rural household, filled with the clutter of small feet. But Lilian's health . . . [more]
On December 1 of every year Tanzanians join other people in the world to mark World AIDS Day. Apart from speeches, testimonies, as well as voluntary counseling and testing, vitamin A supplementation and de-worming for children under the age of five are normally part of the events organized nation-wide. This is a national campaign whereby every district, division (sub district), ward and village leader are required to participate and mobilize fully all . . . [more]
The Community Based Management for Health program, currently being implemented across the Millennium Villages in East and Southern Africa, stopped recently in the pastoralist village of Dertu, Kenya which has 850 households (350 sedentary and 500 migratory).
In this difficult, arid area where communities move in search of water and pasture, the role played by Community Health Workers (CHWs) is vital and helps save lives. Though Dertu has a dispensary with a functional six bed . . . [more]
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