HIV-AIDS

• First Rwandan National Palliative Care Training Workshop

  For the last three weeks, a multidisciplinary team of Rwandan health providers has been participating in the first-ever, national palliative care training workshop for trainers. It’s one example of the concrete steps the country is taking to realize the national palliative care policy it...

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• Helping People Living with HIV Support Each Other: Emotionally, Physically, Financially

  Spéciose Mukaferesi is a nurse, and for nearly 20 years, she has lived with HIV. For much of that time, she has also lived with the stigma that can accompany a positive diagnosis. In 2007, she reached out to other women like herself to start Rushaki Health Center’s first support...

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• IntraHealth Commemorates World AIDS Day 2011

  IntraHealth offices around the world are organizing and participating in World AIDS Day 2011 activities. This year’s theme is Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero AIDS-Related Deaths. Below is a sample of IntraHealth’s World AIDS Day activities. ...

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• IntraHealth\'s Rwandan Nutrition Work Featured in USAID\'s Frontlines

  The USAID Frontlines article, \" Rwandan Fruit Salad ,\" examines a nutrition education program suppported by the IntraHealth-led HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program.

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• IntraHealth to Lead New Project in Tanzania Focused on HIV Counseling and Male Circumcision

  The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded the Supporting Tanzania to Expand, Strengthen, and Sustain Quality HIV Counseling project to IntraHealth International. With this new five-year, $12.5 million cooperative agreement, IntraHealth will continue its...

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• Making Family Planning and HIV Services More Accessible to All

  Claver Kamali is a 52-year-old man living with HIV. He lives in a small village nestled in Rwanda’s hilly landscape with his wife and four children. Every month, Claver walks from his village to the nearest health center in Mukono to get his antiretroviral therapy (ART). While...

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• “Flagship Intervention:” More than 37,900 Tanzanian Males Circumcised for HIV Prevention in Less than a Year

  Earlier this month, more than 13,000 men and boys were circumcised in the Shinyanga region of Tanzania in four districts: Bariadi, Maswa, Kahama, and Shinyanga Municipal. Male circumcision services, which are part of an IntraHealth International-led HIV prevention effort, started in late...

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• Rwanda Palliative Care Work Covered in the CMAJ

  “There’s a lot of suffering and it’s not visible, all for want of drugs we take for granted in the developed world,” said Christian Stengel, director of the IntraHealth-led HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program in Rwanda. Rwanda\'s adoption of a palliative care policy,...

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• Facebook: An Outlet for Responding to Stigma

  Earlier this summer, the University of Costa Rica organized a one-day, free HIV testing event for students, which they promoted on Facebook. In response, one student, Paolo * , posted: “Will this [event] be full of transvestites like the other university...

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• New Project to Strengthen HIV/AIDS Care in Central America

  USAID/Guatemala has awarded IntraHealth International a $6.8 million, five-year cooperative agreement under the Capacity Plus project: Strengthening the Quality of Care and Improving the Quality of Life for People Living with HIV and Other Vulnerable Populations . This new program...

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