Tagged: HIV/AIDS

Oremta stands at her door.

“Welcome” to the world

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By Nancy Ndal-lah

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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 →←
A girl holding her hands onut on which is written"get tested".

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 →←
A group of children looking at a drone.

Flying high to save children from HIV in Malawi

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Twenty-nine-year-old Melina Nkosi* had to wake up before dawn and walk for two and a half hours to reach the Matapila Health Centre, located in a small village 20 kilometres away from Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital city. She hopes that today she will finally get the good news for which she’s been desperately dreaming. For almost two… Read more →←

Four ways UNICEF is working toward an #AIDSFreeGen

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Children and adolescents (aged 0–19) make up one-third of the world’s population, but they are 100 per cent of the world’s future. More rapidly than ever before, we must deliver results to our youngest citizens so that we can achieve an AIDS-free generation. Here are a few ways UNICEF is working with partners to tackle HIV and AIDS… Read more →←
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Latin American youth share HIV experiences on UNICEF Twitter

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Update: read the tweets and conversations from the #VocesPositivas encounters here: Jonatan (Brazil) Noel (Guatemala) Rubén (Mexico) Every December 1 since 1988, the World AIDS Day is celebrated to raise public awareness of HIV prevention and treatment options and to show support to people living with the virus, who are still… Read more →←
Halima and friends at a teen club session at PASADA where she gets to learn, play and meet other adolescents infected and affected by HIV.

Tanzania: the journey of an adolescent living with HIV

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“Good health helped to revive my hope. I would like to tell other young people that living with HIV is not the end of life. The most important thing is to ensure to take your medication and treat infections as early as they emerge.” Those are the powerful words of 16-year-old Halima, whom I met back in May while visiting a UNICEF… Read more →←

Cuba: a milestone towards an AIDS-free generation

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While a report issued on 25 June by the UNAIDS and Lancet Commission urgently calls for greater investments in HIV prevention to reduce new HIV infections and transmission, Cuba’s sustained efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission has brought the world positive news – the country has become the first to complete the… Read more →←

World AIDS Day 2014: HIV and me

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By , Ecuador’s HIV-Positive Adolescentes and Youth Network

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I am a peer counselor, and I have been HIV-positive for 6 years. In a way, I don’t see it as a bad thing, because I have learned to live differently, to be more humane and to improve my self-esteem. When I was first diagnosed, it was something raw in my life. I did not know what to do. Back then, two things crossed my mind: Who do I… Read more →←

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