Skip to content

EpiC Blog

PEPFAR, USAID, MOSAIC
  • Home
  • About
  • Global Impact
  • Events
  • Resources
    • Social & Behavior Change
    • Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
    • HIV Trainings, Tools and Guides
    • Decentralized Drug Distribution
    • HIV Success Stories
    • HIV Country Resources
    • COVID-19 Trainings, Tools and Guides
    • COVID-19 Success Stories
    • COVID-19 Country Resources
  • Follow Us
Search
START TYPING AND PRESS ENTER TO SEARCH
  • Home
  • About
  • Global Impact
  • Events
  • Resources
    • Social and Behavior Change
    • Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
    • HIV Trainings, Tools and Guides
    • Decentralized Drug Distribution
    • HIV Success Stories
    • HIV Country Resources
    • COVID 19 Trainings, Tools and Guides
    • COVID-19 Success Stories
    • COVID-19 Country Resources
  • COVID-19
  • Follow Us

Author: Deanna Saab

Financing the future: Opportunities for advancing sustainable financing for local CSOs

Events

Financing the Future: Opportunities for Advancing Sustainable Financing for Local CSOs

November 17, 2022
As part of the 4th Annual USAID Global Health Local Partner meeting, the USAID- and PEPFAR-supported EpiC project hosted a satellite webinar to explore innovative models for sustainable financing for civil society organizations (CSOs). Presenters from local CSOs shared their... Continue Reading
[hi-res]covid-71

COVID-19 Events

Expanding access to COVID-19 services through strengthening health systems in low- and middle-income countries

November 9, 2022
The USAID-supported Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project recently hosted a webinar in commemoration of World Pneumonia Day. Panelists discussed priorities for expanding access to COVID-19 services through strengthening healtah systems in low- and middle-income countries. This webinar... Continue Reading

COVID-19

Critical components of a sustainable, long-term COVID-19 response

October 18, 2022
Emily Headrick, MSN, FNP, Clinical Technical Advisor, FHI 360Andrea Surette, Technical Advisor for Knowledge Management, FHI 360 Featured image: Dr. Luis Bayo shares approaches to increasing COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Uganda at a meeting convened by FHI 360 and the... Continue Reading

Blog

Financing the Future: Five Takeaways from the Sustainable Financing Forum for Key-Population-Led Organizations in Asia

October 4, 2022
Stephanie Marienau Turpin, Strategic Partnerships Advisor, FHI 360Amita Mehrotra, Senior Technical Advisor, FHI 360 Featured image: As part of a sustainable financing strategy, ACTSE launched a social enterprise addressing a health system gap through the CAREMAT app, a real-time HIV... Continue Reading

Events

Monkeypox: An Update on the Current Epidemic and Implications for HIV Programs

September 12, 2022
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. The recent... Continue Reading

Blog

At the end of the storm, there's a golden sky: Elana's story from Dushanbe

September 8, 2022
EpiC Central Asia Elena works as a peer navigator for SPIN Plus, a public community organization in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, that serves people living with HIV. Her responsibilities include identifying new HIV cases, linking them to therapy, and ensuring adherence to... Continue Reading

Blog

It’s a team effort: Improving government coordination to support victims of trafficking in Vietnam

September 6, 2022
Ha Ngoc Lan, CTIP Project Manager, EpiC VietnamNguyen Thanh Van, CTIP Project Officer, EpiC VietnamRachel Coley, Technical Advisor and Project Manager, EpiC Vietnam Featured image: Four key ministries joined together in the signing ceremony of the inter-ministerial coordination regulation in... Continue Reading

COVID-19

Music events increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Tanzania’s Mtwara region

August 25, 2022
Agness John, Senior Technical Officer, FHI 360Andrea Surette, Technical Advisor, FHI 360 Featured image: Tanzania’s Minister of Health, Ummy Mwalimu, promotes COVID-19 vaccination at a music event hosted by the health promotion unit in partnership with USAID’s EpiC project. Photo... Continue Reading

Blog

EpiC Indonesia supports COVID-19 vaccinations for key populations and people living with HIV

August 3, 2022
Caroline Francis, Project Director, FHI 360Darmika Hutabarat, Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist, FHI 360Erlian Aditya, Deputy Technical Director, FHI 360Lucyan Umboh, Technical Manager, FHI 360Asep Kustiawan, Technical Officer, FHI 360Andrea Surette, Knowledge Management Technical Advisor, FHI 360 Featured image: Vaccination... Continue Reading

Blog

Adequate funds for community-based key population programs needed more than ever to reach and sustain HIV targets

July 28, 2022
Meghan DiCarlo, Senior Technical Advisor, FHI 360/EpiC Leading scientists, thought leaders, program innovators, and community advocates will gather July 30–August 2 at AIDS 2020—the 24th International AIDS Conference—in Montreal to discuss the latest scientific discoveries, programmatic innovations, and policy priorities... Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Older posts

Get Subscribed

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts.

We don’t spam! Read our privacy policy for more info.

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

Archives

Search by Category

Recent Publications

  • EpiC HIV Factsheet
  • EpiC COVID-19 Factsheet
  • EpiC Global Health Security Factsheet

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Link

This blog is managed by the EpiC project and dedicated to sharing stories, events, and resources from HIV epidemic control efforts around the world.

© EpiC BLOG 2022

Assessment

A questionnaire or “screener” meant to be used with individual patients in a clinical setting to screen for, help diagnose, or monitor progress for individual mental health conditions.

Intervention

Larger packages or broader-reaching resources that describe actions or activities to be implemented. These may be appropriate for individuals, groups, and/or programs.

Anxiety

Feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness that may occur as a reaction to stress. Anxiety can be a symptom or a feeling; it can also be a clinical diagnosis of a mental health condition.

Burnout

A state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress, typically related to one’s work, that is not managed well. Burnout is considered an occupational phenomenon.

Clinical diagnoses

Mental or neuropsychiatric disorders, or disruptive, unusual, or maladaptive behaviors that have been evaluated and diagnosed by a trained medical professional.

Depression

A mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.

Disability

A physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities.

Insomnia

A sleep disorder, or disordered sleep pattern, characterized by trouble falling and/or staying asleep.

Overall well-being

The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy; judging one’s own life positively; generally, “feeling good.”

Post-traumatic stress (PTS)

A normal adaptive response to traumatic or stressful life events that can result in a wide range of distressing symptoms. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) differs from PTS and is a clinical diagnosis.

Self-efficacy

An individual’s belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach specific goals.

Self-harm/suicidality

Deliberate injury to oneself as an emotional coping mechanism, ranging from cutting oneself to suicide. Expressions of self-harm and/or suicidality are usually considered an emergency and should be assessed and managed by a trained professional.

Social support

The perception that one is cared for, has assistance available if needed, and that one is part of a supportive social network.

Stress

Any type of change to one’s internal or external environment that causes physical, emotional, or psychological strain. “Managing stress” is an effort to return from this state of strain or disturbance to homeostasis or well-being.

Substance abuse

Use of a substance (usually drugs or alcohol) in amounts or by methods that are harmful to oneself or others. Substance use disorder (SUD) and addiction are distinct clinical diagnoses.

Trauma

Lasting biopsychosocial and/or emotional response that often results from experiencing a terrible event such as an accident, crime, military combat, or natural disaster, or a series of chronic traumatic events like persistent abuse or neglect.

Program beneficiary

Individual who receives program services; an entire group or population may be the recipient of services.

Service provider

Individual who directly provides services to another individual, group, or population (the “program beneficiary”) through a program.

Privacy Policy