On this World AIDS Day, we renew our commitment to work together in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As a major partner in the U.S. President’’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is fully committed to continue providing prevention, care, and treatment services to those in need.
A Program in Zambia Helps Orphans and Vulnerable Children Finish School
With funding from PEPFAR, through USAID, the Luapula Foundation has developed a comprehensive program for education, psychological support, health, nutrition, shelter, and economic advancement in Zambia’s Luapula Province. Read full story [PDF, 45KB]
A Family Living with HIV/AIDS Finds Renewed Strength and Hope
The Dignidad project, which is implemented by Caritas Hondureña, a partner of Catholic Relief Services, and funded by the PEPFAR, through USAID, provides support and critical services to HIV/AIDS-affected families in Honduras. Read full story [PDF, 52KB]
Indonesia's Islamic Schools Adopt HIV Curricula
Following more than two years of technical assistance and advocacy by the USAID-funded Health Policy Initiative, young people attending Islamic middle schools in East Java Province, Indonesia, are now learning about HIV prevention and stigma reduction. Read full story [PDF, 57KB]
Legal Clinic Ensures HIV-Positive Children’s Right to Education
As a result of the Hanoi legal clinic, a project of USAID's Health Policy Initiative, Binh Nguyen and many other HIV-positive children across Vietnam who faced discrimination have gained entry to classrooms. Read full story [PDF, 70KB]
Expanding the Bridge of Health(y) Communication between Generations
Developed by the American and Tanzania Red Cross Societies and funded by the PEPFAR with support from USAID, Daraja, which means "bridge" in Swahili, has helped more than 1,000 adults and youths open their minds and begin to feel comfortable talking with one another about sexual health. Read full story [PDF, 58KB]
Rural Tanzanian Woman Gains Higher Education and Economic Independence
Cama, created by the Campaign for Female Education in Tanzania, with support from the PEPFAR through USAID, is growing into a network dedicated to helping thousands of young women learn about HIV prevention, identify business ideas, establish business and management skills, and become independent income earners. Read full story [PDF, 50KB]
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Technical Issue Brief: Gender and HIV/AIDS – November 2009
Gender influences the vulnerability of women, girls, men, and boys to HIV and its effects. It also influences how societies respond to the epidemic. Integrating gender across HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care programs, with an emphasis on transformative interventions, is a key guiding principle in the HIV/AIDS work of USAID, in partnership with the PEPFAR.
HIV Vaccine Researchers Announce a Development That Brings New Hope for a Vaccine
In September, scientists from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a USAID partner, discovered and isolated two HIV infection-fighting proteins in blood taken from an otherwise healthy volunteer who had been infected with HIV some time ago. The IAVI scientists have revealed that these antibodies neutralize, or block, all major groups of HIV. By determining precisely where the antibodies bind to the virus, they can determine where on the virus a vaccine should target. These two broadly neutralizing antibodies reveal a novel, and potentially more accessible, site on HIV, which was previously unknown and is clearly a site of vulnerability on the virus. The proteins are the first of their kind to be discovered in more than a decade, and the most potent found to date. The scientists also identified what genes the donor's body used to build the broadly neutralizing antibodies. To advance these findings, researchers are now working to develop the active ingredient in vaccines, based on this region of HIV, in the hope of prompting the immune system to produce powerful antibodies that would protect from HIV infection.
Support for HIV/AIDS Programs Worldwide
USAID implements HIV/AIDS programs in more than 50 countries. In virtually every region of the world, USAID is supporting an HIV/AIDS program made possible by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Learn more about USAID’s HIV/AIDS programs.
Read the newly updated regional health profiles for East Africa [PDF, 103KB] and West Africa [PDF, 100KB].
HIV/AIDS Fast Facts
Read key facts on the U.S. Global HIV/AIDS response, led by the PEPFAR, and USAID's comprehensive and balanced approach to combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence – November 25–December 10, 2009
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign provides a forum for speaking up for support services for survivors, calling for greater prevention efforts, pressing for legal and judicial reform, and using international human rights instruments to address the issue. Learn more.
