Updates — GAIA Global Health

A Milestone Moment: GAIA Mobile Health Clinics Reach 3 Million Visits!

The first GAIA Elizabeth Taylor Mobile Health Clinic (MHC) was launched in Malawi in 2008 with seed funding from The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF). 15 years since program launch, the mobile clinics have now reached 3 million client visits, a banner moment for the program and its reach.

International Nurses Day 2024

This #InternationalNursesDay, GAIA celebrates the passion of our nursing scholars and fellows, and their commitment to treating the people of Malawi.

GAIA's 2023 Annual Report is Now Available!

USAID Visits GAIA Malawi

The Case for Investing in Primary Health Care Workers

gaia mobile health clinic nurse with client

Radical Partnerships to End the HIV Epidemic

Resilience: The new normal? Responding to the challenges of a dual pandemic: How outreach mobile health clinics maintained HIV testing and linkage services in the face of COVID-19

Presented at the 2022 International AIDS Conference from July 29 - August 2, 2022

Clinic and community case finding to prevent and identify new HIV infections among children and adolescents at risk and improve treatment outcomes for those living with HIV in rural Malawi

Presented at the 2022 International AIDS Conference from Jul 29 - August 2, 2022.

Building a well trained and resilient health workforce to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic

Presented at the 2022 International AIDS Conference from Jul 29 - August 2, 2022.

GAIA filling in the gaps in the healthcare grid in rural Malawi

Ensuring continuity of care for PLHIV and those at risk in crisis: using mobile clinics to provide integrated HIV care in the aftermath of 2019 flooding in Malawi

Presented at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020) from July 6 - 10, 2020.

GAIA filling in the gaps in the healthcare grid in Malawi

Maintaining access to existing community outreach health services during COVID-19 through public-private partnership

Presented at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020) from July 6 - 10, 2020.

GAIA filling the gaps in the healthcare grid in Malawi

Mawa Girls: creating healthy futures through empowerment, education, HIV risk reduction and psychosocial support

Presented at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020) from July 6 - 10, 2020.

Going door-to-door to reach men and young people with HIV testing services to achieve the 90-90-90 treatment targets

Going door-to-door to reach men and young people with HIV testing services to achieve the 90-90-90 treatment targets

Published on June 21, 2017.

“Our girls need to see a path to the future” -- perspectives on sexual and reproductive health information among adolescent girls, guardians, and initiation counselors in Mulanje district, Malawi

“Our girls need to see a path to the future” -- perspectives on sexual and reproductive health information among adolescent girls, guardians, and initiation counselors in Mulanje district, Malawi

Published on January 25, 2019.

The impact of pulse oximetry and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) training on antibiotic prescribing practices in rural Malawi: A mixed-methods study

The impact of pulse oximetry and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) training on antibiotic prescribing practices in rural Malawi: A mixed-methods study

Published on November 19, 2020.

Beth Geoffroy article

Payment of community health workers

Published in September 2022

GAIA Malawi, in partnership with USAID, ushered in the next generation of frontline health workers in October with two hugely successful inauguration ceremonies for 50 new Nursing Scholars at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences and the Nkhoma College of Nursing and Midwifery.

Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Nursing Scholar Inauguration Ceremony

Published on November 2, 2021.

GAIA Malawi, in partnership with USAID, ushered in the next generation of frontline health workers in October with two hugely successful inauguration ceremonies for 50 new Nursing Scholars at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences and the Nkhoma College of Nursing and Midwifery. Two more inaugurations are planned in the coming weeks to welcome an additional 40 Scholars at the St. Luke’s and Trinity Colleges of Nursing and Midwifery.

Nkhoma College of Nursing and Midwifery Nursing Scholar Inauguration Ceremony

Published on November 2, 2021.

GAIA in Malawi and USAID, in partnership, will accelerate the number of nurses receiving their degrees and being deployed to different health facilities around the country to address the chronic shortage of healthcare professionals Malawi current struggles from.

"GAIA Awarded 5-Year USAID Cooperative Agreement to Strengthen Malawi's Health Service Delivery System", September 23, 2021.

Published on September 23, 2021.

GAIA featured in the Malawi press regarding their work to address malaria, as it is one of the leading health concerns in Malawi. Through partnership with other organizations, GAIA distributes bed nets and educates the community on how to properly use and take care of them.

GAIA Fights Against Malaria

Published on September 21, 2021.

In a remote and rural part of Malawi in Africa, a siren has been alerting people – and it sounds like nothing you’d recognize from a street elsewhere in the world. Strangely unlike a conventional emergency services siren, instead it is a discordant mashup of musical fragments and intermittent white noise.

"The Brain-Hacking Sound That’s Impossible to Ignore" - GAIA on BBC!

Written by Chris Baraniuk, July 14, 2017

GAIA's 20th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, October 18, 2020.