Tag: HIV
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Transforming Communities: Lessons from Madagascar’s HIV Response
Working in Madagascar’s HIV and AIDS response has offered invaluable insights and reshaped my understanding of community improvement. Madagascar’s HIV prevalence remains relatively low compared to mainland African countries. The approach has gone beyond traditional healthcare interventions to embrace HIV and AIDS as a development issue requiring multi-sectoral collaboration.
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Legacy Beyond Names: Insights from Public Health Work
When today’s writing prompt arrived—”If you could have something named after you, what would it” be?”—I paused. As a statistician who has spent the last seven years working with UNAIDS on the HIV and AIDS response in Madagascar, I felt the tension immediately. My professional life straddles two worlds: the analytical realm of statistics and…
L J Padayachy 