The EpiC project offers technical assistance to prevent, prepare for, respond to and bolster health systems to address COVID-19. Currently, EpiC is implementing COVID-19 activities in more than 20 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This photo story was originally published by USAID. Designed as a PEPFAR-funded HIV prevention, care, and treatment project, the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project was mobilized by USAID to respond to COVID-19 clinical care needs in 21 countries including Nigeria. With a large population and the threat that a pandemic poses, meeting […]
Webinar hosted by the EpiC and LINKAGES projects as part of the Key Populations: Evidence in Action series. To access the audio recording of the webinar, please click here.To access the webinar presentation slide deck, please click here.For more information, please refer to the webinar Q&A document. On June 3rd, the USAID- and PEPFAR-supported EpiC project hosted a webinar in a series on […]
Tashi Dendup, Consultant, Save the Children BhutanKarma Doma Tshering, Project Manager, Save the Children BhutanSumita Taneja, Program Director, FHI 360 Bhutan is a small Himalayan country located in Southeast Asia. Health care services are delivered free of cost by the state through a health system built upon a primary health care foundation. Since Bhutan’s first […]
Lirica Nishimoto, Technical Officer, EpiCMichael Odo, Technical Advisor, EpiC LiberiaMoses Bateganya, Director, Technical, EpiCDanielle Darrow de Mora, Technical Advisor, EpiCJulia Toomey, Project Manager, National AIDS Control Program Liberia has an estimated 40,000 people living with HIV, 46 percent of whom are on life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART). About 70 percent of those on ART reside in […]
Maly Phou, Technical Officer, EpiC CambodiaSopheap Seng, Country Representative Deputy Director, EpiC CambodiaSteve Wignall, Project Director, EpiC CambodiaVirak Vinich, Social & Behavior Change Communication Technical Advisor, EpiC Cambodia In Cambodia, people living with HIV and members of key populations have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, “red zones” — the hot spots […]
