Gaia Vaccine Foundation

The GAIA Vaccine Foundation "Hope is a Vaccine Award 2009" will go to two visionary architects of global TB/AIDS Foundations, for their ability to identify public-private partnerships as one means of solving some of the worlds' greatest health problems - access to AIDS care -and developing new TB vaccines.

Chief awardees: Global AIDS care visionary Ira Magaziner and Global TB vaccine visionary Carol Nacy

Hope is a Vaccine Award - HIV/AIDS Care Visionary and Architect - Ira Magaziner

More than 90% of the 33.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world live in developing countries, where access to treatment is limited. For HIV-infected individuals, access to health care is life saving, whether in the U.S. or in the developing world, and there is no one who has worked harder at improving access to health care than Ira Magaziner, former advisor to the Clinton administration and chief architect of the Clinton HIV AIDS Initiative (CHAI). CHAI is working to close the access to care gap in developing world countries by negotiating lower prices for lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, and by working with governments to improve the national health care systems required to deliver crucial medicines. Ira Magaziner makes his home in Rhode Island when he is not travelling for the Clinton Foundation.

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AIDS Walk 2009 took place on Sunday, October 25, 2009 starting and ending at Roger Williams National Memorial Park, on North Main Street, Providence. Hundreds of walkers raised money and gathered to walk the 3K route through parts of Fox Point and the East Side in Providence.

Thanks to all who walked with GAIA!!!

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HIV Care for the poorest of the poor

February 2, 2009. HIV Care at the village level. GAIA Vaccine Foundation has received permission from the Malian national AIDS agencies to establish the first HIV care TB/HIV outreach program in a village clinic, located in Sikoro Mali. The new "Project Hope" HIV care center will open its doors on February 2, 2009.

Treatment for HIV and TB in peri-urban Mali, West Africa is constrained by extreme poverty and limited access to health care. Even though treatment for TB and antiretrovirals is free or low cost, few individuals are aware of the importance of treatment and even fewer have access to the centers where these lifesaving medications are distributed. Currently, only 18,000 of the estimated 180,000 Malians living with HIV infection have access to HIV care.

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November 24, 2008 (Providence, RI) – In celebration of World AIDS Day, the Global Alliance to Immunize against AIDS (GAIA) Vaccine Foundation will honor the humanitarian work of seven noted HIV/AIDS advocates.

This year’s award recipients are:

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