Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
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Fighting for an AIDS-free generation.
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#WorldDiabetesDay is here! To mark this day, EGPAF-Lesotho joined the Ministry of Health, SoliderMed and other partners for a #Diabetes and #NCD awareness education among workers.
After health education, workers received diabetes, hypertension, and mental health screenings.
After health education, workers received diabetes, hypertension, and mental health screenings.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#WorldDiabetesDay is here! To mark this day, EGPAF-Lesotho joined the Ministry of Health, SoliderMed and other partners for a #Diabetes and #NCD awareness education among workers.
After health education, workers received diabetes, hypertension, and mental health screenings.
After health education, workers received diabetes, hypertension, and mental health screenings.
Published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org, a new study demonstrates the successful use of AHP combined with BWS as a practical and transparent approach for prioritizing countries for #TBVaccine readiness research.
https://bit.ly/488jJa1
https://bit.ly/488jJa1
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org, a new study demonstrates the successful use of AHP combined with BWS as a practical and transparent approach for prioritizing countries for #TBVaccine readiness research.
https://bit.ly/488jJa1
https://bit.ly/488jJa1
Lenacapavir is especially promising for pregnant and breastfeeding women and their children! Expanding access is a crucial step to finally eliminate vertical transmission.
Lenacapavir: a game-changer for the HIV response. Here is why it is crucial for people most in need to be able to access this new revolutionary prevention option ⬇️
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Lenacapavir is especially promising for pregnant and breastfeeding women and their children! Expanding access is a crucial step to finally eliminate vertical transmission.
We’ve come so far and can’t afford to go backwards. Read Josephine’s story and join the fight to protect our progress toward ending pediatric HIV and AIDS in our generation
Full story at bit.ly/44UI2qA
Full story at bit.ly/44UI2qA
"We Don't Want to Go Back" - EGPAF
Josephine Nabukenya was born in 1993 in Kampala, Uganda to an HIV-positive mother. Josephine learned about her HIV status in 2001, at the age of 8, when her mother was close to death and had written o...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
We’ve come so far and can’t afford to go backwards. Read Josephine’s story and join the fight to protect our progress toward ending pediatric HIV and AIDS in our generation
Full story at bit.ly/44UI2qA
Full story at bit.ly/44UI2qA
"When a child who was receiving treatment stops getting treatment, it feels like a crime against humanity."
ICYMI: Catherine Connor spoke to @apnews.com about the impact of aid cuts in Lesotho and how these cuts are specifically affecting children.
apnews.com/projects/Les...
ICYMI: Catherine Connor spoke to @apnews.com about the impact of aid cuts in Lesotho and how these cuts are specifically affecting children.
apnews.com/projects/Les...
In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo
Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.
apnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"When a child who was receiving treatment stops getting treatment, it feels like a crime against humanity."
ICYMI: Catherine Connor spoke to @apnews.com about the impact of aid cuts in Lesotho and how these cuts are specifically affecting children.
apnews.com/projects/Les...
ICYMI: Catherine Connor spoke to @apnews.com about the impact of aid cuts in Lesotho and how these cuts are specifically affecting children.
apnews.com/projects/Les...
In Eswatini, USAID cuts raise fears of AIDS resurgence (RTS, Swiss TV)
“My first reaction to the announcement of the end of American aid was to check the terms of my life insurance,” says an HIV-positive mother in Eswatini.
www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...
“My first reaction to the announcement of the end of American aid was to check the terms of my life insurance,” says an HIV-positive mother in Eswatini.
www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...
Au Eswatini, l'arrêt d'USAID fait craindre une résurgence du sida
Au Eswatini, l'ancien Swaziland, petit pays d’Afrique australe, l'Agence des Etats-Unis pour le développement (USAID), couvrait la quasi-totalité des dépenses liées au VIH. Suite à sa suspension par D...
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May 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In Eswatini, USAID cuts raise fears of AIDS resurgence (RTS, Swiss TV)
“My first reaction to the announcement of the end of American aid was to check the terms of my life insurance,” says an HIV-positive mother in Eswatini.
www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...
“My first reaction to the announcement of the end of American aid was to check the terms of my life insurance,” says an HIV-positive mother in Eswatini.
www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...
"Are they just going to let us die?" HIV specialists fear a resurgence of the epidemic, which could cause millions of deaths.
"Every family here has experienced loss because of HIV." Chris Makwindi, director of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in [Eswatini]. @egpaf.bsky.social
"Every family here has experienced loss because of HIV." Chris Makwindi, director of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in [Eswatini]. @egpaf.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Are they just going to let us die?" HIV specialists fear a resurgence of the epidemic, which could cause millions of deaths.
"Every family here has experienced loss because of HIV." Chris Makwindi, director of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in [Eswatini]. @egpaf.bsky.social
"Every family here has experienced loss because of HIV." Chris Makwindi, director of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in [Eswatini]. @egpaf.bsky.social
“It’s really been, you wake up and today this is on, tomorrow this is not on.”
EGPAF experts Caspian Chouraya and Catherine Connor spoke to @washingtonpost.com about the impact of recent aid cuts on HIV programs.
wapo.st/3SjfCz8
EGPAF experts Caspian Chouraya and Catherine Connor spoke to @washingtonpost.com about the impact of recent aid cuts on HIV programs.
wapo.st/3SjfCz8
After 100 days, the toll of Trump’s foreign aid cuts has begun to sink in
Here’s how programs on the ground in countries around the world have been upended by President Donald Trump’s swift dismantling of most U.S. international aid.
wapo.st
May 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“It’s really been, you wake up and today this is on, tomorrow this is not on.”
EGPAF experts Caspian Chouraya and Catherine Connor spoke to @washingtonpost.com about the impact of recent aid cuts on HIV programs.
wapo.st/3SjfCz8
EGPAF experts Caspian Chouraya and Catherine Connor spoke to @washingtonpost.com about the impact of recent aid cuts on HIV programs.
wapo.st/3SjfCz8
Are you attending the World Health Assembly? Join us for a special event with GAP-f about strengthening the global ecosystem for pediatric medicines.
Register at bit.ly/3YbmO3V
Register at bit.ly/3YbmO3V
April 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Are you attending the World Health Assembly? Join us for a special event with GAP-f about strengthening the global ecosystem for pediatric medicines.
Register at bit.ly/3YbmO3V
Register at bit.ly/3YbmO3V
Reposted by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Let's set the record straight: #PEPFAR provides comprehensive HIV services for almost 3M adolescent girls and young women. The program equips them with the knowledge & skills to make informed decisions about their health & well-being. We must #ProtectPEPFAR
@gappdc.bsky.social @egpaf.bsky.social
@gappdc.bsky.social @egpaf.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Let's set the record straight: #PEPFAR provides comprehensive HIV services for almost 3M adolescent girls and young women. The program equips them with the knowledge & skills to make informed decisions about their health & well-being. We must #ProtectPEPFAR
@gappdc.bsky.social @egpaf.bsky.social
@gappdc.bsky.social @egpaf.bsky.social
Access to age-appropriate medicines remains inequitable, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries.
But GAP-f is working to close the equity gap for children.
Read their new personal view in @lancetchildadol.bsky.social.
pedaids.org/resource/acc...
But GAP-f is working to close the equity gap for children.
Read their new personal view in @lancetchildadol.bsky.social.
pedaids.org/resource/acc...
April 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Access to age-appropriate medicines remains inequitable, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries.
But GAP-f is working to close the equity gap for children.
Read their new personal view in @lancetchildadol.bsky.social.
pedaids.org/resource/acc...
But GAP-f is working to close the equity gap for children.
Read their new personal view in @lancetchildadol.bsky.social.
pedaids.org/resource/acc...
“You end up with an infected infant and a dead mother, then a dead infant as well."
In a new article in @theatlantic.com, EGPAF's Dr. Lynne Mofenson explains what is at risk when pregnant women living with HIV do not have access to lifesaving treatment.
In a new article in @theatlantic.com, EGPAF's Dr. Lynne Mofenson explains what is at risk when pregnant women living with HIV do not have access to lifesaving treatment.
The Trump administration has cut funding and programs for HIV research, treatment, and prevention so deeply that “we’re watching the field burn to the ground,” one researcher told Katherine J. Wu.
Trump’s Revenge on Public Health
The attacks on HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress.
bit.ly
April 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“You end up with an infected infant and a dead mother, then a dead infant as well."
In a new article in @theatlantic.com, EGPAF's Dr. Lynne Mofenson explains what is at risk when pregnant women living with HIV do not have access to lifesaving treatment.
In a new article in @theatlantic.com, EGPAF's Dr. Lynne Mofenson explains what is at risk when pregnant women living with HIV do not have access to lifesaving treatment.
When our USAID work in Eswatini and Lesotho was terminated, people were suddenly left without:
💊 HIV treatment
🍼 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission services
🩺 Cervical cancer screenings
🫶Psychosocial support and adherence counseling
And more.
These programs at lifesaving. #ProudofPEPFAR
💊 HIV treatment
🍼 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission services
🩺 Cervical cancer screenings
🫶Psychosocial support and adherence counseling
And more.
These programs at lifesaving. #ProudofPEPFAR
April 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
When our USAID work in Eswatini and Lesotho was terminated, people were suddenly left without:
💊 HIV treatment
🍼 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission services
🩺 Cervical cancer screenings
🫶Psychosocial support and adherence counseling
And more.
These programs at lifesaving. #ProudofPEPFAR
💊 HIV treatment
🍼 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission services
🩺 Cervical cancer screenings
🫶Psychosocial support and adherence counseling
And more.
These programs at lifesaving. #ProudofPEPFAR
Reposted by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
During yesterday's House Committee on Appropriations hearing, Catherine Connor of @egpaf.bsky.social stressed PEPFAR's vital role in fighting HIV/AIDS in children.
She shared the story of Tatu Msangi, whose daughter, Faith, was born HIV-free after PEPFAR launched in Tanzania.
She shared the story of Tatu Msangi, whose daughter, Faith, was born HIV-free after PEPFAR launched in Tanzania.
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
During yesterday's House Committee on Appropriations hearing, Catherine Connor of @egpaf.bsky.social stressed PEPFAR's vital role in fighting HIV/AIDS in children.
She shared the story of Tatu Msangi, whose daughter, Faith, was born HIV-free after PEPFAR launched in Tanzania.
She shared the story of Tatu Msangi, whose daughter, Faith, was born HIV-free after PEPFAR launched in Tanzania.
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been saving lives and preventing HIV since 2003. But today the program is at risk.
Supporting a sustainable end to #PEPFAR means supporting children and families.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Supporting a sustainable end to #PEPFAR means supporting children and families.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
April 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been saving lives and preventing HIV since 2003. But today the program is at risk.
Supporting a sustainable end to #PEPFAR means supporting children and families.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Supporting a sustainable end to #PEPFAR means supporting children and families.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
US flagship HIV/AIDS prevention program faces shaky future: ‘PEPFAR was never meant to go forever’
US flagship HIV/AIDS prevention program faces shaky future: ‘PEPFAR was never meant to go forever’
Public health advocates on Tuesday warned a House subcommittee against a 'chaotic, rapid retreat' by the U.S. from a flagship global HIV/AIDS initiative.
www.wcpo.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
US flagship HIV/AIDS prevention program faces shaky future: ‘PEPFAR was never meant to go forever’
Reposted by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
🆕 Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030 without stable PEPFAR programmes, expert policy analysis estimates. bit.ly/4ltNtTB
Protecting Africa's children from extreme risk: a runway of sustainability for PEPFAR programmes
PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a landmark US foreign health
policy, is recognised for saving 26 million lives from HIV. PEPFAR investments have
also had life-saving impacts for c...
bit.ly
April 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🆕 Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030 without stable PEPFAR programmes, expert policy analysis estimates. bit.ly/4ltNtTB
"Today I am deeply concerned: the future of PEPFAR is uncertain, and that uncertainty is already causing devastating harm."
EGPAF's Catherine Connor spoke to the House Committee on Appropriations about the importance of bipartisan support of #PEPFAR.
www.c-span.org/program/hous...
EGPAF's Catherine Connor spoke to the House Committee on Appropriations about the importance of bipartisan support of #PEPFAR.
www.c-span.org/program/hous...
April 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Today I am deeply concerned: the future of PEPFAR is uncertain, and that uncertainty is already causing devastating harm."
EGPAF's Catherine Connor spoke to the House Committee on Appropriations about the importance of bipartisan support of #PEPFAR.
www.c-span.org/program/hous...
EGPAF's Catherine Connor spoke to the House Committee on Appropriations about the importance of bipartisan support of #PEPFAR.
www.c-span.org/program/hous...
“Especially when you think about children, time is of the essence. That seems to not really be taken into consideration with all these changes that are being made.”
Dr. Anja Giphart spoke to @nytimes.com about how children are being impacted by recent aid cuts.
Dr. Anja Giphart spoke to @nytimes.com about how children are being impacted by recent aid cuts.
The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with HIV in low-income countries.
Who Will Care for Infants With H.I.V. Overseas?
The consequences of mother-to-child transmission can be enormous, a new study suggests. But the U.S. has dismissed experts working to solve the problem.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“Especially when you think about children, time is of the essence. That seems to not really be taken into consideration with all these changes that are being made.”
Dr. Anja Giphart spoke to @nytimes.com about how children are being impacted by recent aid cuts.
Dr. Anja Giphart spoke to @nytimes.com about how children are being impacted by recent aid cuts.
Since 2000, new HIV infections in children have declined by 75%. This is the result of prevention of mother-to-child transmission programs, which help mothers give their children an HIV-free future.
This #WorldHealthDay join us by standing up for moms and babies. They deserve the brightest futures.
This #WorldHealthDay join us by standing up for moms and babies. They deserve the brightest futures.
April 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Since 2000, new HIV infections in children have declined by 75%. This is the result of prevention of mother-to-child transmission programs, which help mothers give their children an HIV-free future.
This #WorldHealthDay join us by standing up for moms and babies. They deserve the brightest futures.
This #WorldHealthDay join us by standing up for moms and babies. They deserve the brightest futures.
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Health is wealth.
In honor of World Health Worker Week, EGPAF-Uganda Country Director Edward Bitarakwate shares what motivates him to fight for an AIDS-free generation.
Read his insights at bit.ly/42bbFB3.
In honor of World Health Worker Week, EGPAF-Uganda Country Director Edward Bitarakwate shares what motivates him to fight for an AIDS-free generation.
Read his insights at bit.ly/42bbFB3.
April 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Health is wealth.
In honor of World Health Worker Week, EGPAF-Uganda Country Director Edward Bitarakwate shares what motivates him to fight for an AIDS-free generation.
Read his insights at bit.ly/42bbFB3.
In honor of World Health Worker Week, EGPAF-Uganda Country Director Edward Bitarakwate shares what motivates him to fight for an AIDS-free generation.
Read his insights at bit.ly/42bbFB3.
"This is not going to be easy to restart. Mothers are not getting treatment. Children are not getting treatment... we are going to have a long way to go to get back to where we were before."
EGPAF's Dr. Lynne Mofenson joined @idsainfo.bsky.social's media briefing.
www.idsociety.org/multimedia/v...
EGPAF's Dr. Lynne Mofenson joined @idsainfo.bsky.social's media briefing.
www.idsociety.org/multimedia/v...
IDSA Media Briefing: Cuts to HIV Funding Halt Decades of Progress
www.idsociety.org
April 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"This is not going to be easy to restart. Mothers are not getting treatment. Children are not getting treatment... we are going to have a long way to go to get back to where we were before."
EGPAF's Dr. Lynne Mofenson joined @idsainfo.bsky.social's media briefing.
www.idsociety.org/multimedia/v...
EGPAF's Dr. Lynne Mofenson joined @idsainfo.bsky.social's media briefing.
www.idsociety.org/multimedia/v...
It is World Health Worker Week and we are talking to the people at the heart of globa.l health to understand what motivates them to save lives every day.
Read Tatu’s insights and more at pedaids.org/2025/03/31/t...
#WHWWeek2025 #HealthWorkersSaveLives
Read Tatu’s insights and more at pedaids.org/2025/03/31/t...
#WHWWeek2025 #HealthWorkersSaveLives
April 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It is World Health Worker Week and we are talking to the people at the heart of globa.l health to understand what motivates them to save lives every day.
Read Tatu’s insights and more at pedaids.org/2025/03/31/t...
#WHWWeek2025 #HealthWorkersSaveLives
Read Tatu’s insights and more at pedaids.org/2025/03/31/t...
#WHWWeek2025 #HealthWorkersSaveLives
Reposted by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
"[The ATN's] researchers helped develop many methods to prevent HIV, which avoids $500,000 in lifetime treatment costs, said Mofenson, who is now with @egpaf.bsky.social.
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... #HIVresearch #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIVprevention #adolescenthealth
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... #HIVresearch #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIVprevention #adolescenthealth
Trump's War Against HIV Research and Care
More than $1 billion in cuts affect at least 232 HIV-related programs to date
www.medpagetoday.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"[The ATN's] researchers helped develop many methods to prevent HIV, which avoids $500,000 in lifetime treatment costs, said Mofenson, who is now with @egpaf.bsky.social.
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... #HIVresearch #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIVprevention #adolescenthealth
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... #HIVresearch #terminatedscience #standupforscience #HIVprevention #adolescenthealth