Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to end HIV/AIDS globally in children, youth, and families.

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

One number caught our attention in last week's @UNAIDS Global Data Brief: 94,000 children acquired HIV in 2025.

The temptation is to read this number as a milestone. But we cannot celebrate a number that doesn’t give the full picture.

https://t.co/KukRw6C0c7

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

This #DayoftheAfricanChild let’s commit to Generation Zero. Because the end of pediatric HIV starts in Africa.

#generationzerohiv

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

The goal is clear, but will the world take the shot ⚽

Ending pediatric AIDS is possible.
We have the tools.
We have expertise.
But we need the funding to finish the job.

📸 Photo of a child at an EGPAF-Nigeria support group. Photo: Eric Bond/EGPAF, 2024

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee @SFRCdems]

“I’m proud to cosponsor the End Tuberculosis Now Act that reaffirms America’s commitment to preventing, treating and ultimately ending the world’s leading infectious disease, TB." -@SenatorShaheen

Read the full bill with @SenToddYoung 👇
https://t.co/20td6OG2ro

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

Who’s ready to play?

#DayofPlay #WorldCup #MatchDay #EndAIDS

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

"Children were already behind before this crisis. Now they are falling even further behind."

EGPAF's Dr. Doris Macharia spoke to the @Independent and explained why new data suggests children are continuing to fall behind in the #HIV response.

https://t.co/G1ScYuEZUN

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

Yesterday, EGPAF-Tanzania joined partners at a one-day workshop to disseminate the results of the Kizazi Kijacho research project, which was designed to support parenting for children aged 0-2 years.

[UNAIDS Global @UNAIDS]

Yes! Ending AIDS is achievable.

✅ The science exists.
✅ The solutions exist.

Now the world must choose action.
#UnitedToEndAIDS

https://t.co/hj9IZrqY1S #HLM2026AIDS

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

New month. Same mission.

#EndAIDS #GenerationZero

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

Yesterday, Team EGPAF was on Capitol Hill with @GappDc to advocate for this lifesaving program. Continued bipartisan support is essential to protect progress and finally achieve the end of AIDS.

#GlobalHealth #ProudofPEPFAR

[IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety]

📢 Researchers and practitioners: @jiasociety is calling for papers for its February 2027 supplement on advanced #HIV disease in children and adolescents.

🗓️ Learn more and submit your work by 8 June:

https://t.co/BGtdyNy5eC

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

"This partnership has enabled PEPFAR’s progress; it’s a proven, time-tested approach."

8 former CDC directors highlight the importance of #PEPFAR and why the program should be reformed, not dismantled.

[STAT @statnews]

A State Department plan scheduled to be implemented June 1 would strip the U.S. of decades of disease defense, write eight former CDC directors. https://t.co/N9FIA21C3d

[UNAIDS Global @UNAIDS]

The #HLM2026AIDS comes at a decisive political moment.

Progress is uneven and increasingly under threat, and the world cannot afford to lose momentum now.

On 22–23 June, leaders will gather to renew commitments and accelerate action to end AIDS by 2030.

https://t.co/hj9IZrqY1S

[Academic Medical Education @Academic_MedEdu]

Abstract submissions for the 10th International Workshop on Adolescence, SRHR & HIV 2026 close in 2 weeks!

Share you research before 5 June 2026!

Submit your abstract: https://t.co/ZYqC3vxEwn

[Children and HIV @childrenandHIV]

Ending pediatric HIV and mother-to-child transmission is no longer a scientific question - it is a delivery and a health systems question. Read the article in @voxdotcom from @EGPAF #reachallchildren

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

Need something to smile about?
Read Hosiana and Angel's story.

#ECD #GlobalHealth
https://t.co/3pVbBT2SE2

[AFIDEP @Afidep]

Reimagining African health systems: Key takeaways from AFIDEP’s WHA79 high-level dialogue

Geneva, 21 May 2026 – At the margins of the #79th World Health Assembly, AFIDEP hosted a high-level dialogue with @NEPAD_Agency and @MinofHealthUG on building more resilient, self-reliant African #health systems.

The session centred on three levers: increasing domestic health financing, improving system efficiency, and scaling locally relevant #innovations.

Dr @EliyaZulu, AFIDEP's Executive Director, opened the session by highlighting Africa’s growing fiscal squeeze.

“External assistance now accounts for 23% of health spending in Africa. #ODA for health fell by an estimated 40% between 2021 and 2023, with further cuts projected. Over 20 African countries are in or at high risk of debt distress," he noted.

He argued that Africa must get more health from existing resources by improving #efficiency, engaging the private sector in local manufacturing and service delivery, and scaling proven innovations. He called for better use of evidence to make the investment case for health, and for global development and finance partners to back #innovative financing like debt swaps.

Delegates flagged persistent fragmentation as a barrier: off-budget and parallel financing systems weaken coordination and planning. The consensus was that funding flows must align with country-led priorities.

Lightning talks from @Afidep, @UNITAID, and @CHAI_health covered the full pipeline: developing, testing, adopting, and scaling innovations. The message from experts was that #partnerships across the pipeline are critical to move proven solutions into routine health service delivery faster.

Delegates agreed that sustained financing alone won’t deliver impact. Africa needs faster adoption of scalable #innovations that improve efficiency and outcomes, alongside stronger domestic financing and better alignment of external support with national health system strengthening priorities.
#WHA79 #HealthFinancing #PHC #WHA @WHO

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

"We are starting to rebuild again, and we have no choice."

EGPAF's Rhoda Igweta joined @HIVpxresearch and @GileadSciences for a conversation with @Devex on the sidelines of #WHA79 about the promise and pitfalls of lenacapavir.

https://t.co/8Z1GnulPE2

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

HIV Endgame @WHO #WHA79
Rhoda Igweta @EGPAF works with governments so w/ success of #Lenacapavir let’s scale!
Michel Joly @GileadSciences has committed to treat 3 million people in 3 yrs but Avac Mitchell Warren @HIVpxresearch says must treat 5 mil in 10 yrs to end #HIVepidemic

[Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation @EGPAF]

"There has been progress, but we can get to zero."

EGPAF's Rhoda Igweta joined AVAC's Mitchell Warren and @GileadSciences' Michel Joly for a conversation about #Len at the #DevexImpactHouse @ #WHA79.

@devex