WHAT WE DO: HIV and AIDS

Since the early 1990s, Pathfinder International has integrated HIV and AIDS prevention and care into our work throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Given that Pathfinder has unique background in programs for women and families through facility- and community-based reproductive health and family planning services, we have been successful in offering HIV and AIDS counseling, testing, and treatment as part of our package of services to promote family health.

In recent years, Pathfinder has become a leader in HIV and AIDS, implementing major programs  to provide home-based care services, improve access to HIV testing and anti-retroviral drugs, offer support for children made vulnerable by HIV, and prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.  In addition, Pathfinder integrates family planning services with HIV prevention and treatment, and establishes specialized HIV prevention and care programs for vulnerable groups like youth and sex workers.

Featured Projects

	Kenya: APHIAplus Nairobi Coast: In the Nairobi-Coast province, Pathfinder and partners work to expand the availability of HIV and AIDS and tuberculosis prevention, treatment, care and support, along with integrated reproductive health and family planning services.

	Kenya: APHIAplus Northern Arid Lands: In the Coast and the North Eastern province, Pathfinder and partners work to expand the availability of HIV and AIDS and tuberculosis prevention, treatment, care and support, along with integrated reproductive health and family planning services.

	Tanzania: Tutunzane: Training local volunteers to provide home-based care to HIV-affected individuals and households in their communities.

	Mozambique: Geração Biz: A national adolescent program reaching one million in- and out- of school youth each year with HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns and prevention messages.

	India: Mukta: Empowering sex workers to make informed choices and adopt behaviors that prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.

Featured Publication

More Publications: HIV and AIDS

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Fighting HIV by Empowering Sex Workers: In a blog post for Impatient Optimists, Darshana Vyas writes about Pathfinder's efforts to strengthen communities to fight HIV and AIDS in India.

Stigma Prevents Access to HIV Services: The Times of India covers a Pathfinder conference in Panhala on community efforts to combat stigma and discrimination 

Supporting HIV Youth—An Interview with a Kenyan Youth Counselor: In commemoration of World AIDS Day, a Kenyan youth born with HIV speaks on his life and counseling others.

Beyond Stigma and Discrimination: With Pathfinder's support, Habiba Hassan Abdillahi works to help her community come to grips with the HIV and AIDS epidemic