JHPIEGO has
received more than $21 million from the U.S. government and
the GE and ExxonMobil foundations to conduct training
programs related to HIV/AIDS, malaria
in pregnancy and infection prevention in South Africa,
Angola, Nigeria and Uganda.
As part of ExxonMobil Foundation's continued
initiatives to fight malaria in Africa,
JHPIEGO received $1 million to implement a second year of
malaria-in-pregnancy
activities; specifically, the funding will be used to
continue to improve the quality of
services delivered at health facilities and by community
health workers in Nigeria and
Angola. Each year, 30 million African women become pregnant
in countries with high levels
of malaria transmission and have no access to proper
preventive or treatment options.
An $850,000 multiyear grant from GE Foundation will be
used to help improve
infection prevention and control practices at community
health centers and to address
the lack of community access at specific hospitals in
Uganda's southwest Isingiro
District. This grant supports GE's corporate initiative
called Developing Health Globally,
which aims to improve community health and reduce infant
and maternal mortality in
selected regions across 10 countries in Africa.
The United States Agency for International Development
has provided JHPIEGO
with nearly $20 million to conduct HIV and AIDS treatment
and related services in the
South African provinces of Eastern Cape, Northern Cap and
Limpopo. Under this award,
JHPIEGO will support USAID and South African government
goals through building local
and national human and institutional capacity to promote
provision of antiretroviral
treatment services.
Together with one of its partners, the Johns Hopkins
School of Nursing, JHPIEGO
will promote and implement task shifting within
antiretroviral treatment services to
enable nurses to provide more services. It is a major
initiative to move the role from
physicians to nurses in South Africa so that more South
Africans living with HIV will
receive needed care and treatment and live longer and
productive lives.
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