Meet Aimable: Living with HIV, Cultivating Hope

This year Aimable will learn his HIV-positive status at a session that will include his grandmother other HIV-positive children and their guardians.

A New Social Work Cadre to Offer Services to Tanzania’s Most Vulnerable Children

I wanted to share some thoughts on an inspiring initiative undertaken by the Tanzanian government to create a new social worker cadre to care for and support the country’s most neglected and vulnerable children.

How—and When—Do You Tell a Child She is HIV-positive?

Telling a child she is HIV-positive is difficult in many ways.  

Last month, I was in Kigali, Rwanda, to give the keynote address at the 6^th International Conference for Exchange and Research on HIV...

Scaling Up Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Best Practices

I just returned from Bangkok, Thailand where over 400 professionals representing 13 countries in the Asia and Middle East Region came together to wrestle with the complex issue of scaling up family planning and maternal and child health best practices.