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Vodafone Foundation helps save mothers’ and children’s lives in one of the world’s worst HIV hotspots

Vodafone Foundation helps save mothers’ and children’s lives in one of the world’s worst HIV hotspots

Maboe, 43, and her son Motsamai, 6, are HIV positive. They now receive regular treatment close to home through the Vodafone Foundations mobile treatment programme in Lesotho. The programme combines Vodafone’s M-Pesa mobile money service with travelling clinics and a smartphone app which enables the tracking of patients in remote areas. The Vodafone Foundations travelling clinics use a fleet of 4 x 4 vehicles to provide on-site HIV testing in remote areas as part of a wider effort to provide basic primary healthcare. Dec 1, 2016
Aaron Eckhart on fanboying over Tom Hanks and filming the water landing in Sully

Aaron Eckhart on fanboying over Tom Hanks and filming the water landing in Sully

Based on the 2009 real-life event and the memoir, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, upcoming biopic Sully explores the quick-thinking of Captain Chesley Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) and his co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) when they water landed the malfunctioning US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River. All 155 passengers and crew aboard survived the incident thanks to Sullenberger and his co-pilot Jeff Skiles calm and pragmatic quick-thinking. In an exclsuive interview with IBTimes UK, Eckhart joked how hed rather actually crash planes in movies so that it felt more realistic. Also starring Mike OMalley and Laura Linney, Sully: Miracle On The Hudson is released in UK cinemas on Friday 2 December. Nov 30, 2016
World Aids Day 2016: HIV in numbers

World Aids Day 2016: HIV in numbers

Since that start of the Aids epidemic, 78 million people have become infected with HIV. Of those, 35 million have died from Aids-related illnesses. Nov 30, 2016
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