Tagged: HIV/AIDS

A woman in a yellow dress sits talks into a microphone at a table with a sign that reads 'NGO Africa'.'

Mother, woman, activist: Lucy’s story

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On the International Day of the Girl, we sat down with Lucy Wanjiku, HIV activist and mother, to hear about her experience as a young woman living with HIV in Kenya. She shared her hopes, dreams and fears for the future of girls in sub-Saharan Africa. What challenges did you face as a teenage girl in Kenya? What are you doing to address… Read more →←
Adolescent girls and young women, in traditional garb.

Envision: The newest tool in adolescent health and data

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For several years, much of my time has been devoted to dissecting and analyzing the alarming statistics regarding new HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women. How is it that an adolescent girl is newly infected with HIV every three minutes in 2017? And why is it that among the quarter of a million new HIV infections that… Read more →←
A teenager stands in front of a board with the letters T-E-S-T-E behind him.

Life as a child activist

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Having HIV in the 1990s meant automatic exclusion from your social circle, discrimination and a lot of stigma. It was even more difficult in developing countries, where HIV was, in the minds of many, a death sentence – because despite being a step away from entering the millennium, ignorance flooded Latin American countries. When our… Read more →←
A young girl living with HIV in Uzbekistan looks at us from behind the trunk of a tree

Out of darkness and into light: My story

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I was born prematurely at seven months. The doctors told my mother that I probably wasn’t going to survive, so she left me in the hospital. At some point during my stay in the hospital I was given a blood transfusion. That was how I got HIV. When I was 14 days old my grandmother discovered I’d been born and came to get me. She has… Read more →←
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Teens: Together we are louder, together we are heard

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My name is Yana Panfilova. I am from Ukraine, and I was born with HIV, on 20 October 1997. Now I am a founder of Teenergizer, an organization for teenagers (including those who are HIV-positive), but during my childhood, I thought I would die. Neither my friends nor civil society in Ukraine knew much about HIV at the time. For the… Read more →←
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Have you ever thought of HIV as the solution?

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A special supplement of the Journal of the International AIDS Society, which I have co-edited with Douglas Webb and Lucie Cluver, considers the impact the new Agenda 2030 (the outline to help institute the Sustainable Development Goals) is going to have on work in the HIV field. Will it mean our efforts no longer have the same focus as… Read more →←
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Gearing up for success: Adolescent sexual health in Rwanda

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How does a country improve HIV and sexual and reproductive health progress for adolescents? We may think it is tech innovation or new celebrity voices or novel social media. But in fact, it is much simpler. Analysis and planning will accelerate progress for adolescent health. Although Rwanda has high coverage of HIV services, the… Read more →←
Oremta stands at her door.

“Welcome” to the world

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“I have lost a child; he was six months old. I know the grief of a mother who loses her child. My husband had HIV/AIDS but he never told me about it. I would never have thought that a child born with HIV could die before his first birthday.” With a warm handshake, Oremta comes to greet us. She is in a hurry. I follow her through a… Read more →←
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If people believe in me, then I can do anything

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HIV has never stood in the way of 18-year-old Yana Panfilova. In fact, it’s only driven her forward. “It inspired me and encouraged me to do more as an activist,” she says. “If people believe in me then I can do anything.” Yana has spent the last eight years campaigning in her native Ukraine to raise awareness in a country with… Read more →←

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