We are celebrating our 10-year anniversary of HIV prevention and care.  Over the past decade, more than $5.1 million has been provided to support our programs.

 

Save a Life has reached over 70 hospitals and clinics throughout the world, providing life-saving treatment to over 85,000 HIV-infected pregnant women.

 

We have conducted over 12 Hope Walks throughout the U.S., involving over 6,000 walkers and raising more than $400,000 after expenses to support over nine orphan programs caring for over 1,600 children in countries such as Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Cambodia and South Africa.

 

Through our HIV/AIDS Education and Training program, we have conducted over 30 workshops and conferences in 14 countries attended by more than 5,500 health care workers.  Our distribution of printed manuals and CDs has totaled more than 35,000 copies.  Working with our partners, we developed training centers in Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.

 

Our partners have had specific needs met through our Partner Support program.  This support has ranged from providing quilts to women who have undergone surgery after being raped, to providing nutrition support to children on antiretroviral drugs, to protecting health care workers from HIV infection.

 

Great progress has been made, and the needs continue to grow.

 

We are grateful for the contributions that so many of you have made.  Thank you for partnering with us in our mission is to implement international strategies to prevent HIV infection by means of strategic alliances with those who share in a compassion for alleviating the suffering of women and children.

 

A recent contribution that has been made by web designer, Richard Hellyer resulted in our new website.  For those of you who have requested, automatic recurring monthly or annual donations are now possible through our website.

 

Another contributor who has recently helped us make significant progress in supporting the sexually abused and raped women in Democratic Republic of Congo is Cindy McWhorter.  Cindy is a mother of two with a degree in Chemistry.  She spent seven years performing research at a pharmaceutical company in Boston, where she managed clinical trials and consulted for various companies including Institute for One World Health.  Her work there brought her to Bihar, India where she worked on clinical trials and roll-out of developing affordable medicines for the poor.

 

She learned about Global Strategies through her volunteering and participation with Hope Walks East Bay and found herself "struck by the magnitude of the HIV epidemic...and the resulting number of...orphans left in extreme vulnerable situations."  Cindy found herself thinking of HIV prevention in a different light: "The value of HIV prevention is not only that it saves the life of the recipient from a fatal HIV infection, but it also preserves the family unit and community structure."

 

Cindy is pleased to join with Global Strategies in the effort to implement a post exposure prophylaxis program for raped women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Her hope is to create a lasting, tangible peace that would end the conflict and the need for such a program.  She reports being inspired by the work Global Strategies has done over the past 10 years with its amazing partners throughout the world.  We are grateful to have Cindy on board and see the fruits of her labor already.