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Across Cote d'Ivoire, thousands of Ivoirians are benefiting from PEPFAR-funded programs.  These articles capture just some of the progress being made in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country. 

 

 

 

Project to Help Children Launched in War-Affected West

Hundreds of orphans and vulnerable children in villages around Danane, in Cote d’Ivoire’s crisis-battered western region, will receive care and support through a PEPFAR-funded project launched Oct. 13 by the Ivorian nongovernmental organization Le Soutien.
Crowds filled Danane’s central esplanade for the launching ceremony, which included a parade of women’s groups from surrounding villages and words of thanks and encouragement from the city’s mayor, traditional leaders, officers of the military Forces Nouvelles, project leaders, and representatives of the National Program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (PNOEV) and PEPFAR.... (more) photo Gallery

Open House at Le Soutien

The NGO Le Soutien provided an overview of its history and its new PEPFAR/NPI project and a tour of its new headquarters during an open house Oct. 20 for other NGOs, PEPFAR representatives, the news media, and other guests at Cocody II Plateaux 7e tranche.... (more) photo Gallery

From Promise to Performance: Scaling Up the National Response

In 2002, 25 health professionals in Cote d’Ivoire set out to turn the promise of HIV research into a lifesaving reality. They called themselves ACONDA-VS and opened a clinic in one of Abidjan’s poorest districts ... (More)

ART and HEART: A Public-Private Success Story

In late 2004, the Ivoirian Ministry of Health received an urgent call from Bardot, one of West Africa’s largest slums and an international melting pot, in the port city of San Pedro. SOGB, a rubber company, was losing too many of its workers and their family members to AIDS, and company officials were looking for help ... (More)

Data Diplomacy: Conducting an AIDS Indicator Survey in a Country in Crisis

Côte d’Ivoire’s HIV prevalence rate continues to be reported as the highest in the West African region, at an estimated 7% among adults. Since September 2002, Cote d’Ivoire has experienced a profound political-military and economic crisis with an uncertain but anticipated deleterious impact on HIV transmission ... (More)

Sustainable Extension: Going Local, Going Native

With a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic in a country torn in two by war, Cote d’Ivoire’s need for a decentralized response reaching to the community level was evident and urgent ... (More) 

A Network of Caring: Multisectoral Programming in Cote d’Ivoire

Maguy Theodore, a carpenter in West Africa’s largest slum, lost his health and his livelihood to HIV. A father of five facing disaster, he found the hope and help offered by HIV testing, antiretroviral therapy, and IRIS, a model network of linked social and health services that is defining an effective district-level response to HIV/AIDS in the port city of San Pedro ... (More)

Feeding Hope: Care in a Conflict Country

Two years of pain, nausea, fevers, and still-births had reduced Mme G. Kléklé to 103 lbs. and forced her to abandon her trading, the sole income for her household of two children and seven adults in a village outside Man, in Cote d’Ivoire’s strife-torn western region. The family struggled along on a single daily meal of boiled manioc or rice ... (More)

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Fighting AIDS on Rural Plantations

Four hundred kilometers to the west of Abidjan, and one hundred kilometres east of Liberia, at the Societe des Caoutchoucs de Grand-Bereby rubber plantation (SOGB), Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) has proposed initiating a model for HIV prevention and treatment in rural African communities. (more)

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PEPFAR Funds a Step Forward

PEPFAR funded Partners for Health Reformplus (PHRplus) to evaluate human-capacity needs and to promote evidence-based policy dialogue among key stakeholders in Cote d’Ivoire. According to key findings of its evaluation, the composition, size, and distribution of human resources are major constraints to...(more)

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Creating the Language of HIV/AIDS

Working with REPMASCI, a coalition of Ivorian journalists, actors, and artists, PEPFAR provided a $25,000 grant to assist with the production of these lexicons on HIV/AIDS.  Through combining words, applying new meanings to old words, and creating new ones, committees of linguistic experts were able to literally give local populations the words with which to talk about HIV/AIDS. (more)