Daily Archives: October 24, 2014

PEPFAR/Elton John AIDS Foundation partner to expand services to men who have sex with men, transgender people in southern Africa

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For years the gap has been noted in reports, national strategic plans, and donor plans: How can an effective response to HIV and AIDS in southern Africa address the epidemic among some of those most at risk, and with the least access to services, when discrimination against them is encoded in laws, policies, and even […]

In Dar es Salaam, a former patient’s group reaches clients where they live

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Joseph Samwel Mapunda was 46 when he was diagnosed with TB. He was cured in eight months, but by the time the disease was through with his family, his wife and daughter were sick too, and his brother-in-law was dead. “From that day, I felt very strongly about this,” he told us last week. He […]