Tanzania to Tackle HIV, Hepatitis, and STIs in Unified Approach
Making a health care island of HIV control has held back efforts to catch and treat related illnesses, advocates say. That’s about to change.
Making a health care island of HIV control has held back efforts to catch and treat related illnesses, advocates say. That’s about to change.
A chance meeting with a teenager who was not at school may have changed his life. An excerpt from Danielle Butin’s heartfelt story of the Afya Foundation.
‘In Senegal, people with HIV are subject to harsh discrimination. Mothers are hiding. They don’t want to be seen entering this pavilion. They are afraid to go to the pharmacy. They refuse to be followed up in their neighbourhood. As a result, many children living with the disease are not being detected.’
We have officially reached the landmark of 200,000 women screened in our efforts to bring woman-centered, high quality health care to some of the most rural and underserved communities around the world.
The three-year Boresha Macho programme has been a game-changer for eye health in the Singida and Morogoro regions of Tanzania.