Harriet Dumba
Sudan/USA
“With my current visit to Kajo Keji, I meet young girls who got pregnant either by older counterparts or age-mates. None of them receive HIV testing or counseling because there are no facilities that are women friendly in the region.” 
On July 28 through August 1st 2010, Hearts of Angels for Health Sudan Initiative (HAHS, http://www.hah-s.org) brought women from all around North America to Dallas, Texas to plan and work together to support those in South Sudan. The organization was established in 2002 to work in Kajo Keji, Torit, and …

Dr. Karambu Ringera
Kenya
“The right kind of action can change the course of history, creating opportunities for generations to come, creating a legacy forever.”
So, you meet a woman like Gladys. When I met Gladys in 2003, her husband had just died, she had a two-week-old baby, a seven-year-old girl, she was deathly ill, but she didn’t even know that she had HIV/AIDS. She wanted to kill herself and her two children because the family of the husband said that she was the one who had bewitched her husband. They had evicted …

Pastor Samuel Muderhwa
Democratic Republic of Congo

“Our core program serves 47 young girls and their children. … There are many more young women who need help, but we worry about how we are going to care for this many.”
The Peace and Conflict Resolution Organization (PCR) was founded in 2004 in Bukavu, South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Myself, Pastor Samuel Muderhwa, and my wife Faida started the organization despite the chaos caused by wars in the Congo. We began the organization in Nairobi, Kenya, due …

By Dan Lynch        
US President Obama’s new commitment of $63 billion to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and polio on the African continent came with the declaration that “we won’t confront illnesses in isolation.” He knows our global health challenges are connected, just as we are―or need to be. “I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world,” Obama declared.
That theme of connection reminded me of two organizations I support: Peace X Peace, which connects women globally to build peace, and Support for Addictions Prevention and Treatment in Africa (SAPTA), …