WE-ACTx

In keeping with our efforts to build local capacity at all levels, technical, administrative, fundraising, and program-related, WE-ACTx has assisted our Rwandan staff in establishing a local Rwandan affiliate organization, WE-ACTx for Hope, through which some of our non-clinical programs are currently operating, and through which all non-clinical WE-ACTx programs will be administered as local [...]

In January 2005, WE-ACTx developed a longitudinal cohort study , enrolling nearly 1000 women in the Rwanda Women’s Interassociation Study and Assessment (RWISA). With the approval of the Rwandan government Ethics Committee and the Institutional Review Board of the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, RWISA is the largest research study in Rwanda, led [...]

Following the success of the Rwandan “Know Your Rights! Community Handbook on Health-Care Rights and Other Laws for Rwandan” in 2008, our local affiliate organization, WE-ACTx for Hope, will soon be releasing a new handbook specifically addressing health-care rights and available legal resources for children in Rwanda.
Watch here for the English and Kinyarwandan versions of [...]

Congratulations to INEZA on its recent approval from the Rwandan government of its legal status as a Rwandan business cooperative.  The women who make up the cooperative, many of whom were some of WE-ACTx’s earliest patients, have worked hard to build their cooperative.  WE-ACTx continues to support INEZA through subsidies and technical assistance/capacity building.  We [...]

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Slide Show – WE-ACTx in Rwanda

Mardge H. Cohen, MD
Anne-Christine d’Adesky, MS
Kathryn Anastos, MD
Knowing that when we are sick with AIDS, we have no shelter on our head and no school fees for our children, that is what kills us.
Laurence Mukamurangwa
Rwandan Women’s Network
June 7, 2005
IN 2003, RWANDAN WOMEN’S ASSOCIATIONS ISSUED AN international call to aid women who had been raped and
infected [...]

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PRESS RELEASE
December 1, 2006
New Report Highlights Challenges of Integrating
Food into HIV Programs
More holistic global model of care & new development partnerships with focus on poverty needed to respond to urgent [...]

PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Anne-christine d’Adesky
(415) 690-6199 cell
December 1, 2006
New Report Highlights Challenges of Integrating Food into HIV ProgramsMore holistic global model of care & new development partnerships with focus on poverty are needed to respond to urgent demand for food by millions with HIV and AIDS in hard-hit regions.
Boston, November 6 – A new report entitled [...]

Throughout Liberia’s 14 years of civil war, the use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war was all too common. Although the war itself came to an end in August 2003 and the country has been disarmed since that time, sexual violence continues to affect Liberians. It is now estimated that 40 [...]