Across Benue State in Nigeria, vulnerable children are being reached through community-led interventions that are saving lives. From infants to adolescents, these stories remind us of the critical and urgent importance of linking children with HIV to the care they deserve.

When Stella Machuma first visited a clinic in Bungoma, Western Kenya, she carried not only her one-and-a-half-year-old son but also a heavy burden of fear. What began as a routine antenatal care visit during her pregnancy in 2023 would change her life forever.

Service Quality Assessments (SQAs) are indispensable tools for programs aiming to deliver such care, providing the data needed to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Zimbabwe's experience with conducting SQAs for pediatric AHD services, building upon CHAI’s 2022 Pediatric AHD Landscape Assessment, offers a compelling case study.

THRIVE-Zimbabwe aims to evaluate the STOP-AIDS package across an entire rural Zimbabwean district of Shurugwi. The project seeks to identify and overcome barriers to ​its ​implementation at the community and primary care levels.

When the U.S. Government issued a stop-work order and froze foreign aid funding, it led to significant disruptions across low-and middle-income countries. In Uganda, key health programs ground to a halt. One of the people affected was Rogers Balyejusa, a dedicated HIV index testing focal person whose role, previously supported by a CDC-funded project, was terminated due to the funding freeze.

The major causes of morbidity and mortality among children living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries are pneumonia (including...