Author Archives: Sophie Beauvais

About Sophie Beauvais

Sophie G. Beauvais, Communications and Web Content Manager Before joining GHD, Sophie led communications strategies and public relations campaigns for various non- and for-profit organizations. Past projects include revamping the corporate website for Vinfen, a leading human services provider in Massachusetts, where she received the Awards of Excellence for External Periodicals and for Corporate Brand Identity by the New England Society for Healthcare Communications in 2006 for The Vinfen Voice newsletter; co-creating Santepress.com; and managing campaigns at Capital Image, an independent health care PR firm. She holds a Master of Information and Communication Sciences from La Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Blaya recognized for MiDoctor, a mHealth solution for chronic disease management

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Joaquin Blaya, PhD, co-founder and CIO of eHealth Systems, a Chilean company that offers eHealth strategies and open source solutions to companies, and a GHDonline.org moderator, is one of eleven to be nominated Leading Mobile Health Innovators of the Year by the mHealth Alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation (see press release here).

This recognition acknowledges his work on MiDoctor, an automated system that uses automated phone calls, SMS, and a web-based electronic medical record to monitor and provide support for patients with chronic diseases. Winners were brought to this year’s mHealth Summit in Washington DC to share their work with experts in the mobile health field.

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I want to believe…

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… that “an AIDS-free generation is possible.” Armed with growing evidence supporting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a.k.a. “treatment as prevention”, President Obama yesterday made this statement and pledged increased support along the way, setting a new target of helping 6 million people get treatment by the end of 2013, upping the current number by 2 million.

Raising awareness and hope for HIV/AIDS in Uganda

There is good reason to believe. On December 1, world leaders and organizations marked World AIDS Day, which was themed “Getting to Zero” (in-line with the UNAIDS strategy). Thirty years into the epidemic, over 65 million people have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), over 30 million have died, and there are currently 34 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide as Jennifer Weinberg recaps in the Global Pulse Journal Blog. Among major milestones, the overall continued decrease in rate of new infections, deaths, and ART cost are paramount (see the UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report 2011 for more details – PDF).

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