Spotted: GAIA’s Joyce Jere with former Warrior Festus Ezeli

As it’s done for the past few years, GAIA Global Health held an annual fundraiser in Menlo Park last weekend, this year honoring Dr. Dean Winslow with the GAIA Global Citizen award for his contributions to the field of global health, and his service on the GAIA Medical Advisory Board.

“It’s always inspiring to listen to GAIA Country Director Joyce Jere describing our work in Malawi,” said GAIA Executive Director Todd Schafer. “And to do so in a lovely setting with 100 of GAIA’s closest friends while honoring one of our heroes is the very definition of an afternoon well spent!”

On hand this year was former Warrior Festus Ezeli, who poised with Joyce.

GAIA provides basic health services — targeting prevention, care, and support — in communities affected by HIV, AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa. It is a non-profit, non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in June 2000 by an Episcopal priest and a UCSF doctor in response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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