Blog: PEPFAR-Funded Zambian Program Provides Support, Treatment to Women

A post on the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog examines the Zambian program Corridors of Hope, run by Family Health International (FHI) and funded by PEPFAR. The author writes that the group "meets weekly outdoors to discuss challenges and problems associated with their lives -- from negotiating condom use to remaining adherent to their HIV medications." The program "provides these women with HIV and TB screening, sexually transmitted infection diagnosis and treatment, and linkages to HIV treatment." About half the women in the group said that "in addition to their own children, they were raising the children of others who had died from AIDS." The author concludes, "[t]hese energetic, articulate women reminded us all that structural interventions, which respond to the poverty and vulnerability of these women and their families, are also key to reducing the toll of HIV on these young women and their children" (Lubinski, 8/24).

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