As a global leader in the business of saving lives and transforming futures in the world’s most challenging places, Jhpiego, as you might imagine, is working overtime—and enlisting new talent. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating impact on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, Jhpiego is looking to the next generation to share ideas, energy and passions as they focus on resolving societal concerns important to them. Through the aptly named Changemakers curriculum, Jhpiego is building
Singida Region, Tanzania—Jilala Shusha’s personal milestone says a lot about his country’s commitment to delivering on the promise of an AIDS-free generation. At 17, Jilala decided to be circumcised, even though traditional circumcision is not practiced by his family, who are migrant herders of goats and cattle. With support and informed consent from his family,
For more than half his young life, 13-year-old Mbumwae Khagwanda was a frequent visitor to the local primary care health facility, Limulunga Rural Health Centre, situated about 1 mile from his home in Western Province but hundreds of miles from Zambia’s capital. Staff there, who had limited experience handling complex cases, had tried over the
