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.
Tashi Dendup, EpiC Consultant, Save the Children, BhutanKarma Doma Tshering, Project Manager, Save the Children, BhutanSumita Taneja, Director, Country Programs, FHI 360, India Dr. Ujal Pradhan is a young and enthusiastic anesthesiologist who works in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) in Thimphu, Bhutan. When the …
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Michael Cassell, Senior Technical Advisor, EpiCBettina Kaye Castañeda, Senior Strategic Information Advisor, EpiC PhilippinesJoven Santiago, Social & Behavior Change Communications Technical Advisor, EpiC Philippines With an estimated 16,000 new HIV infections per year—sustained primarily by gaps in HIV service access for men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women—the Philippines is one of …
Since 2015, WHO has recommended oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for people at substantial risk of HIV. However, PrEP rollout in many settings in the Asia Pacific region and the rest of the world is limited and not at scale. This is the time to advocate for PrEP, especially at a moment when new PrEP products …
Continue reading “New PrEP products for Asia Pacific: What do we need to know?” regional webinar
Interviewee: Millicent Kiruki, Health Systems Researcher, LVCT HealthInterviewer: Casey Bishopp, Technical Officer, Science Facilitation, FHI 360 My colleagues and I were up for a challenge as we prepared for a 60-person, virtual HIV Prevention Ambassador Trainers’ Workshop with participants from Zimbabwe Health Interventions and FHI 360 Zimbabwe. This was our third iteration of the training, …
Gift Kambandanga, Project Manager, EpiC, PSI MalawiPhilip C. Mkandawire, Market Development, Social Franchise & Research, Deputy Chief of Party, PSI MalawiLirica Nishimoto, Technical Officer, EpiC, FHI 360Moses Bateganya, Technical Director, EpiC, FHI 360 With more than 850,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi, the public health system is under enormous strain to …
Choice Makufa, Senior Technical Advisor, Pact Eswatini I could not believe my eyes when I read the instructions from the facilitator of the HIV Prevention Ambassador Trainers’ Workshop: “Please read the entire training package and toolkit before the training begins.” I looked at the manual and saw it was 206 pages. Did I truly have …
Angelique Mihigo, Program Assistant, EpiC MaliKounadi Coulibaly, Strategic Information (SI) Advisor, EpiC Mali KOLOCHI is an electronic reporting system for tracking HIV cascade data across all services provided for female sex workers (FSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), and other priority and key populations that is being scaled up in Mali. To date, …
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Interviewee: Dominica Dhakwa, Project Director, DREAMS Zimbabwe, FHI 360Interviewer: Aubrey Weber, Technical Officer, Science Facilitation, FHI 360 As a project director, do you see value in virtual trainings? Yes, there is value in virtual trainings. The current COVID-19 environment requires that projects remain agile or stop providing intended services completely. Beyond responding to COVID-19, virtual …
EpiC Mali has launched a joint initiative with Mali's Ministry of Health and local partners to share best practices, lessons learned from field experiences, challenges and solutions, and future strategy improvements and reinforcements related to HIV programming and cascade implementation. This learning collaborative is intended for everyone, and to those involved in implementing or supporting …
Casey Bishopp, Technical Officer, Science Facilitation, FHI 360 When my colleagues and I realized more than 60 people representing Zimbabwe Health Interventions and FHI 360 Zimbabwe had signed up for the next iteration of our five-day HIV Prevention Ambassador Trainers’ Workshop, we were a little bewildered. How would we guarantee these sessions didn’t feel like …
