EGPAF - 2025 Annual Report

Fiscal Year 2025

Annual

Report

EGPAF 2025 ANNUAL REPORT

OUR WORK:

Protecting Progress,

Expanding Impact

OUR MISSION:

The Elizabeth Glaser

Pediatric AIDS Foundation

seeks to end HIV and

AIDS globally in children,

youth, and families.

table of contents

A Letter from our President

Our Work: Protecting Progress, Expanding Impact

Stories of Impact

The Strength of a Mother

We Don’t Want to Go Back

Strategic Partnerships to Help Drive Innovation

Innovation That Helps Children and Families

The Road Ahead —The Last Mile

Evolving with the Environment

Why Long-Term Private Philanthropy Matters

Partnerships That Power Progress

Keith Haring Foundation

The AEPhi & EGPAF Partnership: 25 Years Strong

Communications Workers of America (CWA): Standing Together

for Families and Communities

How a Teddy Bear Became a Movement of Comfort

Our Generous Donors

Financial Statement Summary

Our Leadership

Board of Directors 2025

Global Leadership Team 2026

EGPAF 2025 ANNUAL REPORT

Each day in 2025,

approximately 250

children acquired HIV,

and approximately

167 children died from

AIDS-related causes.

Without early diagnosis

and treatment, around

half of children living

with HIV die before their

second birthday.

Why It Matters

Our Impact

AIDS remains a leading

cause of death among

adolescents and young

people in sub-Saharan

Africa.

In 2025, EGPAF provided

609,352 pregnant women

with PMTCT services. Out

of these pregnant women

who accessed Prevention

of Mother-to-Child Trans-

mission (PMTCT) services

via EGPAF programs last

year, over 107,000 were

Adolescent Girls and Young

Women (AGYW) between

the ages of 15 years and

24 years.

609,352

In 2025, EGPAF tested

277,106 children (0-14

years of age) for HIV.

277,106

At the end of 2025,

EGPAF was supporting

over 1 million people,

including 27,076 children,

with lifesaving anti-

retroviral therapy through

its programs.

1 Million+

EGPAF has provided 411,971

adolescents access to

HIV testing and counseling

and currently supports

over 34,000 adolescents

with the treatment they

need to stay healthy.

411,971

SERVED

TESTED

TREATED

REACHED

250

EGPAF 2025 ANNUAL REPORT

“I have [a] passion for baking muffins. In [the]

future, I see myself starting a bakery business

selling baked products and generating income

to support my family,” she says.

Photo credit: Reabetsoe with his grandmother. Eric Bond/EGPAF 2024

Photo credit: Motšelisi and her son. Eric Bond/EGPAF 2024

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We Don’t Want to Go Back

STORIES OF IMPACT

Josephine Nabukenya was born in 1993 in

Kampala, Uganda to her mother living with

HIV. Josephine learned about her HIV status

in 2001, at the age of 8, when her mother

was close to death and had written out a

will. HIV treatment was not available, and

Josephine’s mother considered the two of

them to be condemned to death.

Through a special emergency infusion of

ARV therapy at Makereke University, Jo-

sephine’s mother did survive. But without

access to regular treatment, they both con-

tinued to battle illnesses and wait for the

opportunistic infection that would eventu-

ally kill them.

Then in 2004, the President’s Emergen-

cy Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) came to

Uganda as the first country in its rollout.

Suddenly, there was hope. Josephine and

her mother are both alive today thanks to

that intervention.

In 2005, Josephine traveled with her moth-

er to the United States to thank Congress

for PEPFAR funding. She read a poem she

had written asking Congress to continue to

fund HIV programs: “Help us, we are dying,”

she implored.

Through PEPFAR, Josephine and her

mother both survived and thrived.

Josephine’s mother worked for many years

Photo Credit: Eric Bond

as a community health worker, counseling

women to get tested and treated for HIV so

they could have HIV-free babies, an option

that was not available to Josephine’s moth-

er. Josephine became a spokesperson and

peer counselor to other children affected

by HIV.

Now an adult, Josephine has established

her own foundation to help children with

chronic diseases, is pursuing a master’s

degree in public health, and serves on

EGPAF’s Board of Directors.

She is concerned that because of the

uncertainty about global funding for HIV

programs, Uganda will go back decades.

More children will be born with HIV, and

more parents and children will die.

Josephine has seen stock-outs of some

HIV medications for children. She has

heard from children living with HIV who

are terrified that their medications will

run out. As a result, they are hoarding their

pills and taking them every other day

instead of every day. This can lead to a

failure of their treatment as HIV gets

stronger in their bodies.

“In this unstable moment, how sure are we

that third-line and second-line regimens

are going to be readily available to the

clients? We are already facing some stock-

outs of some drugs on some regimens, and

people cannot access that medication,”

Josephine reflects.

Josephine reports that the ARV stock is

only one aspect of her fears. Key staff have

been let go— medical experts who process

blood tests, counsel mothers about pre-

venting mother-to-child HIV transmission,

and follow up with HIV clients.

Josephine goes on to say: “How can you

treat HIV if you are not aware that you

have HIV? How can you avoid passing it to

your child if you are not aware that it is

in your body? Some facilities are not

drawing off viral load blood. They are not

transporting blood. Even if the blood was

drawn, it is sometimes just stuck because

there is no way of transporting it to labs.

So much is not happening, and so much is

going at a very slow pace. So many people

are panicking.

Let’s find a better way of transitioning that

will not affect the clients, will not take us

back to the years where our parents lived.

I wish we can get a better way of transi-

tioning all this so that clients, so that

children, so that pregnant mothers, so

that whoever is affected by this condition

can get treatment and can live and can

have hope.”

“Staff have been laid off. When you go to some

of these health facilities, you will not find the

implementing staff workers who are very key

in providing HIV education and implementing

HIV programs. It’s that tension that is currently

in the country,” she says.

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Strategic Partnerships to

Help Drive Innovation

Innovation that Helps Children and Families

EGPAF is partnering with Microsoft to use

data in a powerful new way: helping health

care teams identify where people living

with HIV may need additional support.

In partnership with Microsoft’s Hack4Good

program EGPAF created glAIser, an AI-pow-

ered tool that brings information from

different health systems together and turns

it into clear, timely insights. Staff can more

quickly identify trends in HIV testing, treat-

ment, and medication adherence and focus

resources where they are needed most.

This tool can also help identify patients

at risk of treatment interruption, giv-

ing health care teams an opportunity to

reach out earlier. By analyzing patterns in

treatment and medication adherence data,

glAIser can flag potential gaps in care so

health care teams can connect with pa-

tients and offer support before treatment

is interrupted. By combining EGPAF’s glob-

al health expertise with Microsoft’s tech-

nology leadership, this innovative collabo-

ration is helping move us closer to a world

where no child is born with HIV.

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MICROSOFT’S

FULL STORY,

“HOW AI IS

ACCELERATING

THE FIGHT

AGAINST PEDI-

ATRIC AIDS.”

Photo credit: Lab tech in Malawi. Eric Bond/EGPAF

The Last Mile

Since the peak of the pediatric AIDS

epidemic, EGPAF has helped drive an 83%

decline in new HIV infections among chil-

dren and an 80% reduction in AIDS-related

deaths. It is one of the great public health

achievements of the last four decades. And

it is not finished. Roughly 254 children still

acquire HIV every day. EGPAF calls the

work still ahead “the last mile”: the final,

hardest stretch between where global

pediatric HIV efforts stand today and an

AIDS-free generation.

The last mile is rarely the most visible part

of a journey, but it is often the most diffi-

cult. Early progress against pediatric AIDS

came from expanding access to testing and

treatment at scale. What remains is more

targeted: reaching the children and fami-

lies that broader systems still miss, closing

gaps in prevention of mother-to-child

transmission, and ensuring that the gains

of the past 38 years are not only sustained

but owned by the countries and communi-

ties they serve. For EGPAF, the last mile is

as much about systems and stewardship as

it is about services.

THE ROAD AHEAD

Photo credit: Eric Bond/2026

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EGPAF was built to respond directly to

a crisis, delivering services where none

existed. As national health systems have

matured, EGPAF’s role has shifted alongside

them, from direct implementation toward

in-country capacity building, technical

expertise, and advocacy. This was always

the intended path. Today’s funding environ-

ment is simply accelerating the timeline.

In practice, that means partnering with

governments to own and operate the

systems EGPAF helped build and position-

ing EGPAF as a technical partner

and advocate rather than a permanent

service provider—a shift toward the

kind of sustainable, locally owned health

systems that can outlast any single

organization or funding cycle.

Evolving With

the Environment

THE ROAD AHEAD

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Photo credit: Ndhiwa sub county hospital Ndhiwa, Homaby. Kevin Ouma for EGPAF 2023

The funding landscape for global health

is shifting, and traditional public funding

streams are no longer something EGPAF, or

the sector, can take for granted. Long-term,

private philanthropic partnerships offer

what public funding often cannot—flex-

ibility to invest in innovation before it is

proven, patience to sustain systems-level

work over years rather than single grant

cycles, and resources such as cash, in-kind

technology, and technical expertise. That

kind of partnership—one that compounds—

is precisely what will allow us to close the

final gaps rather than simply hold the line.

Since the start of its programs at the height

of the epidemic, EGPAF has adapted our

model again and again without losing sight

of our mission: a world where no child is

born with, or dies from, HIV. The last mile

will demand the same resilience that car-

ried EGPAF through the previous 38 years.

There will be a last child born with HIV.

With sustained investment and the right

partners, that day is closer than ever.

Why Long-

Term Private

Philanthropy

Matters

THE ROAD AHEAD

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Reaching the last mile will require committed partners

from every sector. Here, we highlight some of our longtime

partners and supporters whose longtime supporters whose

partnership helped EGPAF protect progress and advance

solutions for children and families.

PARTNERSHIPS THAT POWER PROGRESS

Photo credit: Mont’seng Lesala and her son. Makopano Letsatsi/EGPAF 2022

Keith Haring Foundation

PARTNERSHIPS THAT POWER PROGRESS

For nearly 20 years, the Keith Haring Foundation has

partnered with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS

Foundation in a shared commitment to children, fam-

ilies, and a future free from HIV and AIDS. Inspired by

Keith Haring’s enduring legacy of activism, compassion,

and the use of art to inspire social change, the partner-

ship continues to advance lifesaving care and support

for communities most impacted.

In 2025, as global HIV programs faced growing uncer-

tainty amid reductions in international health funding,

the Keith Haring Foundation provided critical unre-

stricted support to help EGPAF sustain services for

mothers, children, and families.

The partnership also expanded through a creative

awareness initiative featuring a limited-edition Bonfire

merchandise campaign inspired by Keith Haring’s icon-

ic artwork and message of hope and action. Supporters

could purchase branded apparel, including T-shirts and

sweatshirts, helping introduce EGPAF to new audienc-

es while raising critical resources for its mission.

Together, EGPAF and the Keith Haring Foundation

continue to demonstrate how creativity, advocacy,

and partnership can help build healthier futures for

children and families around the world.

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The AEPhi & EGPAF Part-

nership: 25 Years Strong

A Conversation with Samantha Graham,

AEPhi Director of Philanthropy

PARTNERSHIPS THAT POWER PROGRESS

For more than 25 years, Alpha Epsilon Phi (AEPhi) has supported EGPAF

as a national philanthropic partner, honoring our co-founders, Elizabeth

Glaser and Susie Zeegen, both of whom were members of AEPhi. Through

fundraising and awareness-building, AEPhi chapters nationwide have

helped advance EGPAF’s mission. To date, AEPhi has raised more than $1.8

million in support of an AIDS-free generation.

We spoke with Samantha Graham, a volunteer and AEPhi’s director

of philanthropy, who supports chapters nationwide with their

fundraising and member engagement efforts. She also serves as

lead chapter advisor for the Nu Chapter at the University of Pitts-

burgh, where she was initiated as a collegian. Ms. Graham shared

her perspective on the partnership’s history, impact, and future.

WHY HAS THE AEPHI–EGPAF PARTNERSHIP

ENDURED FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES?

Our commitment began out of love and solidarity for our sisters—

Elizabeth, who was in need, and her friend Susie who became one

of EGPAF’s co-founders. Long-term partnerships matter because

sustainable change takes time, trust, and consistency. Our part-

nership with EGPAF has endured for over two decades because it

is built on shared values, a deeply personal history,

and an unwavering commitment to a world where no

child is born with HIV. That shared vision creates a

deep, multi-generational bridge between our collegiate

chapters, alumnae, and EGPAF’s vital work.

WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED

TO SEE IN THE FUTURE?

I am most excited to see this partnership continue

to innovate and grow. Having been directly involved

with AEPhi for 25 years, I have had the privilege of

witnessing firsthand the remarkable milestones

EGPAF has achieved. I look forward to seeing our

collegiate members carry that momentum forward

into the next chapter of our work together.

WHAT MESSAGE WOULD YOU LIKE TO

SHARE WITH EGPAF SUPPORTERS READING

THIS ANNUAL REPORT?

To every supporter, donor, researcher, and advocate

reading this report: thank you for believing in a world

where no child is born with HIV and no mother has to

fight for her child’s health alone.

From the perspective of AEPhi, our commitment to

this work isn’t just a collegiate activity. It is a promise.

Over the years, AEPhi chapters have raised funds, but

the real power lies in what those dollars represent:

life-saving medications, stronger health systems, and

hope for families worldwide.

Progress requires persistence. The incredible mile-

stones EGPAF has achieved over the last few decades

show us that an AIDS-free generation is an attainable

goal. As long as there are mothers and children who

need advocacy, AEPhi sisters will be right alongside

you, raising funds, spreading awareness, and standing

in solidarity.

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Standing Together

for Families and

Communities

PARTNERSHIPS THAT POWER PROGRESS

For more than three decades, the Com-

munications Workers of America (CWA)

and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS

Foundation have shared a commitment to

protecting children, strengthening commu-

nities, and advancing health equity around

the world. Since naming EGPAF its Charity

of Choice in 1990, CWA and its members

have helped raise critical funds and aware-

ness to support mothers, children, and

families impacted by HIV and AIDS.

In 2025, EGPAF was honored to participate

in the CWA Convention, where we connect-

ed directly with union members, leaders,

and longtime supporters who continue to

champion EGPAF’s mission.

We are especially grateful for the lead-

ership and support of Ameenah Salaam,

Secretary-Treasurer of CWA and a valued

member of EGPAF’s Board of Directors. Her

commitment and advocacy have helped

strengthen the longstanding relationship

between CWA and EGPAF and continue to

elevate the importance of ensuring every

child and family has access to lifesaving

care.

Through workplace giving campaigns,

awareness initiatives, and member en-

gagement, CWA continues to help advance

EGPAF’s vision of a future where no child

is born with HIV and every family has the

opportunity to thrive.

How a Teddy Bear Became

a Movement of Comfort

A Conversation with Amy Berman,

Founder of the Mother Bear Project

PARTNERSHIPS THAT POWER PROGRESS

When the Mother Bear Project closed after

22 years, its founder, Amy Berman, donated

a portion of their remaining funds to the

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

(EGPAF). Amy’s connection to EGPAF began

years before when she purchased a chil-

dren’s music CD featuring cover art drawn

by Elizabeth Glaser’s daughter, Ariel. When

she began thinking about where the proj-

ect’s closing gifts should go, EGPAF was top

on her list.

“Mother Bear is reaching out to those same

children with a bear to provide comfort

and love,” Amy says. “I believe both organi-

zations are trying to provide hope and the

promise that these children matter.”

Mother Bear Project began in 2003, after

Amy read about the many hardships faced

by children in South Africa and a request

for comfort items for them. She thought

about what had brought her own children

comfort: teddy bears her mother had knit-

ted for them. Amy barely knew

how to knit herself, but asked her mother

to teach her again. She made one bear,

then began inviting neighbors to learn

alongside her.

Within months, there were fifteen bears

and a newspaper story. What began as a

small effort quickly grew into a grassroots

movement. Amy quit her job to keep up

with the demand, while individuals and

knitting circles around the world gathered

to knit the bears. Volunteers packed the

bears, and Peace Corps Volunteers and

other organizations across rural Sub-

Saharan Africa helped deliver them.

Over the project’s lifetime, over 200,000

bears reached children in 26 countries

across sub-Saharan Africa. Each was

hand-signed with a tag reading, “With love,

Mother Bear.” Not a single bear, Amy notes,

was ever lost along the way.

The children receiving the bears gave the

project meaning for Amy. In one South

African household, a young child ran back

into his house during torrential rain to

retrieve his bear. When asked why, he

replied, “Because my bear has a heart on

it, and that means someone loves me.”

Amy hopes the legacy of the Mother

Bear Project will live on through the

children who received the bears, and

through EGPAF’s continued work.

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OUR GENEROUS DONORS

Thank you to all who supported EGPAF in 2025. We are

grateful to every donor, including those recognized here

and those who prefer to remain anonymous.

$1 MILLION +

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

US Department of Defense

USAID/ U.S. Department

of State

ViiV Healthcare

$500,000–$999,999

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

GAVI

Johnson & Johnson

$250,000–$499,999

ELMA

Jewelers for Children

The Keith Haring

Foundation, Inc.

Millennium Challenge

Corporation

$100,000–$249,999

Ms. Willow Bay and

Mr. Robert Iger

Cepheid

Communications Workers

of America

Dr. Nicholas Hellmann and Dr.

Susan Desmond-Hellmann

SRC (Swedish Research Council)

The Wasily Family Foundation

World Health Organization

$50,000–$99,999

Global Fund

John M. Lloyd Foundation

$10,000–$49,999

Benevity Community Impact

Fund

Mrs. Kathleen Bird and

Mr. Donald Bird

Mrs. Debbie Burrows

Mrs. Natalie Burtson and

Mr. Jim Burtson

Cole-Crone Family Foundation

Estate of John Jeckel Horvath

Mr. Michael Finke and Mrs.

Susanna Finke

Mr. Russell Hagey

Johnny Carson Foundation

Mr. Jack Leslie and

Ms. Caroline Pech

Mrs. Laura Rosenwald and

Mr. James Rosenwald

Pediatric AIDS Coalition,

University of California,

Los Angeles

$5,000–$9,999

Ms. Janice Bashford

Ambassador Richard Boucher

and Ms. Carolyn Brehm

EVA Networks

Mr. Charles Hirsch and

Mrs. Carol Hirsch

Mr. Andrew Ho

Louise P. Hackett Foundation

Drs. Karen Kaye Smith-McCune

and Mike McCune

R. G. Laha Foundation

Mr. Donald Tweedie

Mr. David Weil and

Mrs. Annette Weil

Mrs. Bobbi Zifkin and

Mr. Walter Zifkin

JEWELERS FOR

CHILDREN

FOR MORE THAN 25

YEARS, JEWELERS FOR

CHILDREN HAS BEEN A

DEDICATED PARTNER

IN EGPAF’S MISSION TO

END HIV AND AIDS IN

CHILDREN. SINCE BECOM-

ING A LEGACY CHARITY

PARTNER IN 1999, JFC’S

GENEROUS SUPPORT HAS

HELPED SUSTAIN LIFE-

SAVING PREVENTION,

TESTING, TREATMENT,

AND CARE FOR MOTHERS,

CHILDREN, AND FAMILIES

WORLDWIDE. WE ARE

DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR

JFC’S ENDURING COMMIT-

MENT TO AN AIDS-FREE

GENERATION.

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