On World AIDS Day (Dec. 1), we celebrated “undetectable equals untransmittable” and the inspiring efforts of communities to end the epidemic. Maragua, Kenya — For years, she hid the antiretrovirals (ARVs) under the bed, worried that her husband would leave if he discovered her secret and her community would shun her. For years, she lived
For years, João Fernando has been educating and counseling men and their partners on the health benefits of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in preventing HIV. As a community mobilizer in the fight to reduce HIV-related deaths, he has reached dozens of men in Macuelia, in Zambézia Province, and even escorted his 14-year-old son to
In the whirlwind half-year since Darlene Irby joined Jhpiego as director of digital health and health information, she’s visited country offices in Mozambique, Kenya and Zambia, and coordinated a much-anticipated track—Country Digital Health Strategies—which she’ll lead at the upcoming Global Digital Health Forum, which runs December 9–11 in Bethesda, Maryland. Her Jhpiego team will be
