HIV/AIDS

Violence, stigma, and other challenges I see every day as I provide HIV care to people in my community.

We're expanding our leadership to include health workers and health workforce experts in the regions where we focus our advocacy.

When it comes to HIV and COVID, mothers in my community listen to me. And this year so did decision-makers around the world.

They have the skills to lead multidisciplinary teams and improve health services for us all.

Imelda Ngonyani and other nurses in Tanzania are making a key HIV prevention strategy more available. This is the first post in our Frontline Perspectives blog series for the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.

Speaking to the Strategic Communications Advisor of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Côte d’Ivoire, a social worker shares how a training on 'index testing' that aims to identify sexual partners of HIV+ patients in order to test them and enrol them in treatment, enabled him to reuinite a family.

Community health workers like Nanzula link their neighbors to the essential primary health services they need.

As frontline health workers, nurses who can take on the task of initiating and managing ART – particularly in rural or underserved communities – are critical to Tanzania’s efforts to achieve the global 90-90-90 targets by providing quality, comprehensive health services, including ART, to people living with HIV.

Social welfare workers such as Pruden Furaha have emerged as critical frontline caregivers working at the community level to provide a safety net for people living with or at risk of contracting HIV in Tanzania.

Beachside testing and counseling is a strategy for educating fisherfolk about HIV and for identifying those living with HIV.