The Vuela Volunteers 2024 receive the ACM Award for Social Responsibility. When the jury of the Aristos Campus Mundus Award for Best Practices in University Social Commitment announced its decision, the room erupted in spontaneous applause. The first prize was awarded to the Nyumbani Eco-Village Orphanage Project (Kenya), coordinated by Jesús Muñoz Muñoz, professor at …
“I am most fulfilled when I see a child who was once malnourished playing happily, indistinguishable from those without HIV.”— Sarah, Nurse at Nyumbani Children’s Home When Elijah* arrived at Nyumbani’s Respite Care facility in early 2024, he was gravely ill. Malnourished, weak from tuberculosis, and carrying a dangerously high viral load, his young life …
In the world of HIV care, “undetectable” is the most beautiful word. It means the virus is so suppressed it cannot be transmitted and, most importantly, that a child can live a full, healthy, and long life. At Nyumbani, this word is not an aspiration; it is our standard. Achieving a 98% viral suppression rate …
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Did you know that people living with HIV (PLWH) are more likely to commit suicide? According to a study published by the National Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Affective disorders which surveyed 1560 people living with HIV/AIDS, 26% (405/1560) of participants reported lifetime suicidal ideation and 13% (204/1560) reported lifetime suicide attempt. (source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032711003958?via%3Dihub). This is …
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Interfaith Health Platform Dear colleagues and friends, The resources of the webinar on Challenges to Paediatric HIV Care, hosted last week (Tuesday 30 May), by the Interfaith Health Platform of the PEPFAR – UNAIDS Faith Initiative are available at: https://www.interfaith-health-platform.org/challenges-to-paediatric-hiv-care-1 The webinar, Challenges to paediatric HIV care, draw on the findings from the 2022 HIV clinical care data …
