Located in southeast India, Chennai is the largest metropolitan area in southern India. It is known for its effectiveness in combating HIV/AIDS. Curious about how the local community and doctors are tackling the epidemic, I visited a nearby hospital and two doctors known for their community-based response to treatment. Continue Reading »

Greetings from Singapore!

I am here to participate in the Asia Society’s Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit. The most exciting part of the program is meeting with social entrepreneurs from all over Asia. In particular, I would like to share with you the work of one successful leader I met and his transformative work in scaling up prevention programs for AIDS orphans in China. Continue Reading »

Greetings from the Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Summit in Dana Point, California. Melanne and I are here for three days joined by 300+ of the most powerful women in business. As you may have read, Vital Voices is thrilled to have a partnership with Fortune and the US State Department to run an annual mentoring program that pairs top American businesswomen with emerging female business leaders from around the world (age 27 to 42) for a month-long leadership and professional development program in the United States each May. Continue Reading »

Dear Friends:

Welcome to Vital Voices’ blog!

For those who have followed Vital Voices’ exciting work to promote women’s status in society, we thank you for your support and commitment to making this world a better place for women, girls, and humankind.

As Vital Voices grows and expands our programs, we are launching an initiative to address the global challenge of HIV/AIDS, and to look at how women’s relatively low status in society has contributed to the increasing challenges faced by women and girls in this epidemic. We encourage you to visit our website at www.vitalvoices.org to learn more detailed information about Vital Voices’ efforts to curb the epidemic.
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