A radiant smile lights up Agness Chabu’s face as she cuddles Lackson, her 23-month-old son at home in Zambia. Agnes has good reason to feel joyful. She and her son have gone through many months of care to protect the little boy from mother-to-child HIV transmission during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. Now, health workers have [...]
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UNICEF marks the progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS
30th November 2011 | by unicef | HIV / AIDS | No Comments
Mother-Baby Pack introduced
18th February 2011 | by unicef | HIV / AIDS | No Comments
UNICEF’s Mother-Baby Pack can make HIV-prevention treatment available to mothers and infants who might not otherwise have access to it.
UNICEF’s recently introduced “Mother-Baby Pack” is a take-home box containing all the anti-retroviral drugs and antibiotics needed to protect the health of one mother and child. Color-coding and simple graphics help mothers identify which of the [...]
Mother-Baby Pack launched to help prevent HIV transmission in Zambia
15th February 2011 | by unicef | HIV / AIDS | No Comments
Buy an actual lifesaving Mother-Baby Pack to be delivered to the field through UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Report by Precious Mumbi-Habeenzu, UNICEF
Two years ago, Rodah Banda had to make the biggest decision of her life—whether to terminate her pregnancy or leave her husband, who threatened to end their marriage if she enrolled in a program designed [...]
Football Stories – Nokwanda from South Africa
15th June 2010 | by unicef | HIV / AIDS, Inspired Gifts | No Comments
Nokwanda is a participant in a UNICEF-organized child photography workshop. She has lived with her aunt, Gainile Mchunu, since her mother became terminally ill three years ago. Her mother has since died. Ms. Mchunu has three children of her own and is unemployed, but in spite of their poverty, she is determined to keep Nokwanda [...]
Developing vision: Young people in South Africa photograph their communities
14th June 2010 | by unicef | Education, HIV / AIDS | No Comments
Report by Hong-An Truong - Across some of South Africa’s most impoverished neighbourhoods, a youth photography programme is helping students document their lives – while also raising wider awareness of their communities’ struggles.
The Umuzi Photo Club is run entirely by a volunteer staff of dedicated teachers and organizers. The innovative organization integrates technical and creative [...]
New campaign to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Lesotho
19th March 2010 | by unicef | HIV / AIDS | No Comments
BEREA DISTRICT, Lesotho, 16 March 2010 – Malekena George is eight months pregnant, living with HIV, and exhausted from the five-hour trek she endured to get here, to the Pilot Health Clinic, for her first antenatal check-up. But because her journey to the clinic was so difficult, this visit may also be her last.
Ms. George’s [...]
UNICEF staff are working hard to ensure that HIV positive Haitians receive medical care
1st March 2010 | by unicef | HIV / AIDS, Haiti | No Comments
NEWS STORY from Diana Valcarcel, from Port-au-Prince
JEANNE
Jeanne *(not her real name) sits on a mattress in her tent surrounded by another 45 families in the spontaneous settlement that has sprung up in Port au Prince. Through the plastic walls of the tent, the afternoon sun burns and she tells me her story.
Jeanne is 28 years [...]
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