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.
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 …
Vinich Virak, SBCC Technical Advisor, EpiC Cambodia In June, the USAID- and PEPFAR-supported Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) Cambodia team celebrated lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month by raising awareness of the need to address sexual and reproductive health as part of self-care and self-love. The team, funded by the …
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Michael Cassell, Senior Technical Advisor, EpiCErlian Aditya, Deputy Director, EpiC IndonesiaCaroline Francis, Project Director, EpiC IndonesiaIrfan Riswan, Program Manager, EpiC Indonesia On July 17, 2021, The New York Times identified Indonesia as the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the world’s highest count of new infections. Days earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported of …
Lisa Moreau, Learning & Capacity Development Consultant, FHI 360 In preparing for the virtual HIV Prevention Ambassador Trainers’ Workshop, we understood that we would not only be shifting away from in-person learning due to the global COVID-19 pandemic but also shifting away from the one-and-done approach to training events that is often the default in our …
#EAWA Team Angela (pseudonym) is a pioneer of the first Back to Care campaign in Burkina Faso for people living with HIV (PLHIV). Angela’s life was at risk because she felt she had no choice but to interrupt her antiretroviral therapy (ART). Her health care worker found and re-engaged her in ART by giving the …
Caroline Francis, Project Director, LINKAGES Indonesia In June and July, LINKAGES Indonesia collaborated with the Indonesia Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ISICM) to launch a webinar series, entitled COVID-19 management for doctors. The first webinar was hosted on June 26th and focused on non-invasive ventilation and intubation for COVID-19 patients. More than 850 participants attended …
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