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  • Posted by Priti Prabhughate on Thursday, July 26, 2012
    A First Step
    College faculty take on HIV-related stigma

    For three days earlier this year, a few of my colleagues and I gave a training workshop on how to reduce stigma against people living with HIV. What made the training especially unique was that our audience included priests and nuns.

  • Posted by Jennifer McCleary-Sills on Monday, January 30, 2012
    Laying Down Arms, Picking up the Pieces
    Meeting the unique needs of both women and men in post-conflict Republic of Congo

    Although the conflict in the Republic of Congo officially ended almost a decade ago, the tough business of mending broken lives is still underway. As is true in many wars, women's lives were deeply affected.

  • Posted by Amy Gregowski on Thursday, April 14, 2011
    Environmental Influences
    Way of Life in Namibian Community Fosters Vulnerability to HIV

    In the fight against HIV, the environment in which women and men live influences their risk of becoming infected. That’s part of the reality in Kabila, a small community on the outskirts of Katutura, Namibia.

    ICRW is launching a project here to reduce people’s vulnerability to HIV by addressing risky sexual behavior associated with drinking alcohol. Bars serving alcohol are ubiquitous in the hilly, informal settlement of Kabila.

  • Posted by Katherine Fritz on Tuesday, November 30, 2010
    Recreating Success
    Ugandans Draw on Past Triumphs to Fight HIV Epidemic

    In November, I found myself retracing footsteps I last traveled 15 years ago through Mbale, a small town beautifully situated at the foot of Mt. Elgon on Uganda’s northeastern border. I lived in Mbale for a year in the mid-1990s when Uganda was considered the epicenter of the global HIV epidemic. At that time, the world watched and wondered how Uganda would bring itself back from the brink of disaster.

  • Posted by Jennifer McCleary-Sills on Monday, October 4, 2010
    Girl Power in Tanzania
    A Journey from Shy to Confident

    I first met the young women on a sunny Monday morning as they sat under a tree in front of a teachers' training center in Newala, a town so far south in Tanzania that if you stand at its highest point, you can see Mozambique.