EpiC is a five-year global initiative that provides strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery to achieve HIV epidemic control and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs by improving HIV case finding, prevention, treatment programming, and viral load suppression.
The USAID- and PEPFAR-supported EpiC project hosted a webinar in a series on topics related to HIV prevention, care, and treatment for key populations—sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people, and people who inject drugs. Much progress has been made in recent years in creating enabling policy environments and strengthening health systems …
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La Cellule Sectorielle de Lutte contre le VIH/SIDA, la Tuberculose et les Hépatites Virales (CLSSTBH), avec l'assistance technique du projet EpiC soutenu par l'USAID et le PEPFAR, a organisé le 13 avril un webinaire sur les différentes expériences de mise en œuvre de la 95 stratégies d'optimisation au niveau communautaire et des structures de santé. …
Andrea Surette, FHI 360 Theresia Mrema, FHI 360 Waziri Nyoni, FHI 360 Tanzania started rolling out COVID-19 vaccinations in July 2021 with a national goal of vaccinating 60 percent of the country’s 58 million people by June 2022. To address persistent vaccine hesitancy among the general population, the Ministry of Health (MOH) received technical assistance …
EpiC Central Asia Shohin - a business student from Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan – loves and cherishes his mother and likes to spend time hanging out with friends and having fun on the weekends. He has many friends, but his best friend is Dushanbinka – the river that runs through the city. He knows …
The USAID and PEPFAR-supported Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project; Reaching Impact, Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) project; and Sustaining Technical and Analytical Resources (STAR) project are hosting a webinar series, COVID-19 clinical updates for global practice. Webinar resources are provided in the links below. Webinar 1: Review of oral therapeutics for COVID-19 …
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Michael Cassell, FHI 360, EpiC/Vietnam Matt Avery, FHI 360, EpiC/Thailand The link between drug use and HIV risk is well documented across a wide range of substances, modes of administration, and contexts. While there are now proven, highly effective interventions to reduce the risk of HIV and other diseases associated with injecting drug use, additional …
Kate Rucinski, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Louis Masankha Banda, FHI 360 This blog post was originally featured on Infectious Diseases Society of America's (IDSA) Science Speaks blog. To read the full blog post, click here. Given the hard work of communities, government, academics and implementing partners, there have been significant decreases in …
The USAID- and PEPFAR-supported Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project hosted a webinar in a series on topics related to HIV prevention, care, and treatment for key populations—sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people, and people who inject drugs. As COVID-19 vaccine availability improves in low- and middle-income countries, there …
EpiC Central Asia Amir figured knowing his HIV status was better than having to wonder, so he decided to get tested, and Ibodullo—a peer navigator from the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project—helped him get an HIV self-test kit so he could test himself privately. The test was negative, and the peer navigator …
Patrick Ikani, EpiC/FHI 360, Nigeria Joseph Achanya, EpiC/Achieving Health Initiative Nigeria (AHNi)Adekunle Idowu, Achieving Health Initiative Nigeria (AHNi)Adaobi Olisa, EpiC/FHI 360, NigeriaMaggie McCarten-Gibbs, EpiC/FHI 360Christopher Akolo, EpiC/FHI 360 While HIV prevalence among the general population in Nigeria is only 1.4 percent, global data show that transgender people are on average 13 times more likely to …
Continue reading Breaking ground in transgender-led HIV programming in Nigeria
