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VPP in Uganda: Pooling Resources to Get Nets to People in Need
Every 30 seconds, a child dies due to malaria. Worldwide, 3.3 billion people are at risk. In Uganda, the story is no different. Images courtesy of Trevor Snapp
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A Day in the Life: Edgar and Club en Conexion
19-year-old Edgar Anibal Miranda from Guatemala City is a peer educator with Club en Conexión, the youth program of PSI’s Central American affiliate, PASMO. Club en Conexión works to meet young people’s sexual and reproductive health needs by training motivated youth to become leaders and educators...
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Ingrid Alvarado
Ingrid Idalia Montes Alvarado, a 44-year-old mother of seven from a poor neighborhood in Guatemala City, had tried just about every family planning method. She used condoms and different forms of hormonal short-term contraceptives, but she experienced side effects each time. And each time, Ingrid...
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Improving the Odds: One Mother’s Story
Just a stone’s throw away from downtown Monrovia, in Liberia, sprawled against the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean, lies the slum community of West Point – home to more than 75,000 people.
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TB in the Global Community
After traveling to South Africa to work on a project about the TB epidemic in the country's gold mining community, David Rochkind began to realize that the disease does not merely affect the individual patients who have it, but also the families and communities where it is found. Moreover, it is a...
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The Story of Barbra Pakamisa
Barbra Pakamisa is a 23-year-old mother of three children from Mbare, Zimbabwe. Since it’s hard to provide for their children, Barbra and her husband decided to stop having kids. However, most contraceptive options were either too expensive or unavailable to her. Nearly 50 % of the total unmet need...
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The Story of Kono Cecile
Meet Kono Cecile, a 38-year-old migrant farmer and mother of four. Since she finds it hard to provide for all of her children, after the birth of her last child, Kono decided she didn’t want to have any more right now. Kono was one of the 20% of married women of reproductive age in Cameroon who...
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The Story of Mariam Sangare
Mariam Sangare, a 34-year-old from Mali, has already had 13 pregnancies, but only nine of her children have survived. She and her husband can’t afford to send any of their children to school, so after they had their last child, they decided to use family planning to prevent them from having more...
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HIV and Concurrent Partnerships
In Kenya, one behavior is playing a major role in the transmission of HIV: concurrent sexual partnerships. PSI and the Government of Kenya address this issue head-on through a groundbreaking communications campaign.
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Scaling Up Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention
Male circumcision is a cost-effective procedure that reduces the risk of HIV infection in men by 60%. At scale, MC programs can play a major role in reducing the spread of HIV.
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Aggie Phiri
Agnes Phiri Kornikova, Aggie for short, is a midwife for Society for Family Health, PSI's affiliate in Zambia. She has been a midwife for 34 years and her passion for improving women's health takes her to the far reaches of Zambia's eastern province.
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Tears Wenzira
Tears Wenzira, a radiant 28-year-old woman with a welcoming smile, is one of the more than 2,000 hair dressers in Zimbabwe who work closely with PSI, as part of a program co-funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.K. Department for International Development, to prevent HIV...
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In His Own Words: The Story of P'Boy, Peer Educator for PSI in Bangkok, Thailand
38% of injecting drug users (IDUs) in Thailand are HIV-positive. This is largely due to sharing injecting equipment and a lack of access to health services and information. PSIs Ozone Drop-in Center, a branded network of peer educators and drop-in centers run by PSI/Thailand. At the centers, IDUs...
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Impact Journeys
In the lead up to the World Economic Forum on Africa, Young Global Leaders (YGLs) were asked to evaluate a variety of models of change currently being used in Tanzania. Nearly 350 YGLs were led into surrounding areas of the city to gain a deeper understanding of the context in which these models...
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Community-based Rehabilitation for Drug Users in Southwest China
Yunnan Province has the highest HIV prevalence in China. Injecting drug use is the primary mode of HIV transmission (39% of HIV cases) and the population of 80,000 registered IDUs has an HIV prevalence of 72%. To break the cycle of relapse, arrest and detention for drug users, PSI’s Huxianghao...