The EMPOWER Project in Malawi provides high-quality, integrated SRH and HIV services to adolescent girls and young women. These services include family planning, post-GBV support, STI testing and treatment, HIV testing—including index testing and HIV self-testing—and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention.

EpiC introduced a community-based PrEP program in January 2023, through Your World, a community-based organization in East Kazakhstan that provides HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. This program leveraged community-based HIV counseling and testing platforms to refer HIV-negative, at-risk MSM to non-clinic-based PrEP initiation and continuation services.

Eva, age 19, was born into one of the poorest families in Kahama Town in the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania. She is the sixth of seven children. Her family survived by selling local beer. While in school, Eva had to join her mother to help with the business. Eva repeatedly experienced violence from customers, sometimes because she refused to drink alcohol or be inappropriately touched, other times because she pickpocketed the drunk men or inflated their bills, in an effort to boost the family’s income.

In February, the Network of Maharashtra by People Living with HIV/AIDS (NMP+) launched TAAL+, the first-ever peer-led e-pharmacy platform in India. Through the e-pharmacy, people living with HIV or other chronic health conditions can order their medicines online for home delivery across India.