See hope for an HIV-free generation in East Africa (The Global Fund)

I got this in my email:

Dear Tracy,

In the past months you have already shown your support for the Global Fund, so we wanted to let you know a little more about some of the remarkable work that is being done - this time in the area of HIV and AIDS.

When Tatu Msangi, an HIV-positive woman in Tanzania, first found out she was pregnant some years ago, she was terrified. In the months before she gave birth to her child, she had thought her baby would be infected.

But something amazing happened: Tatu received treatment that protected her baby from the virus she carries. Her daughter Faith was born happy and healthy and is now a thriving six-year old.

"It was a great joy," Tatu says, remembering the day she brought her daughter into the world. "I tried to involve my friends to tell the news. I called them by phone. We met outside the gate with the baby, celebrating. It was a very happy day."

These treatments are simple, and the Global Fund is funding programs around the world that provide them. With continued support for the Global Fund, we could see the virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV becoming a reality by 2015.

Watch this video about Tatu and other successes we've seen in East Africa, and see how mothers, children and communities are having their lives changed now that they have effective HIV treatment.

Watch the video

The stories in this video are full of hope, but there is still an incredible amount that needs to be done if we're going to see an HIV-free generation born in 2015.

Though now more than half the women who need treatment to spare their unborn children from HIV get it, there are still hundreds of thousands of babies worldwide who are born with HIV every year.

As you'll see in the video, with Global Fund grants, 49 countries in Africa are turning the tide against mother-to-child transmission of HIV. If we can continue this incredible progress, we will reach the other half of those women - and the Global Fund and its partners will continue to save millions of lives.

Please watch the video now to see all that is being done:

http://onemillion.theglobalfund.org/see-amazing-progress

Together, we can change the world.

Thanks,

Jon Lidén