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.
Definate Nhamo, Senior Programs Manager, Pangaea Zimbabwe AIDS Trust (PZAT) In 2004, my experience as a trainer began. I started off as a life skills and comprehensive sexuality education trainer. Over time, I trained groups in financial literacy, economic livelihoods, HIV prevention, and advocacy, to name a few. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I had always …
Continue reading Training in a virtual world: Reflections from a seasoned HIV prevention trainer
EpiC Kyrgyzstan "It was hard for me in those days, and now there are people nearby who help me start all over again." Dmitry is from Bishkek and is 38 years old. Dmitry was a drug user for many years. After the death of his first wife, he raised his daughter alone. Three years ago, …
Continue reading Second life: Lifesaving by peer navigators from Bishkek
Aubrey Weber, Technical Officer, Research Utilization, FHI 360 In 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic demanded a shift in how we think about and deliver technical assistance. As members of the FHI 360- and Jhpiego-led Collaborative for HIV Prevention Options to Control the Epidemic (CHOICE) team, we asked ourselves two questions: How might we continue to …
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The EpiC and LINKAGES projects are excited to be participating in IAS 2021, where our staff and partners will share innovative practices and programmatic evidence on a range of topics, including PrEP scale-up, decentralized ART distribution, differentiated testing modalities, and effective adaptations of HIV services during the COVID-19 pandemic, among others. Learn more by checking out …
Brian Pedersen, Technical Advisor, Social & Behavior Change, FHI 360 Manya Dotson, Senior Technical Advisor, Marketing & Demand Generation, Jhpiego Endalkachew Melese, Senior Technical Director, Project HOPE Namibia Starting in November 2020, the CHOICE project worked with Project HOPE Namibia (PHN) to review and address gaps in its oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) demand creation activities. PHN manages PEPFAR/USAID-funded DREAMS programs in three regions of Namibia, reaching tens of thousands of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with HIV interventions. When PHN and …
Agness John, Senior Technical Officer, Communications & Knowledge Management, HIV Programs, FHI 360 At age 14, Shakira experienced a great tragedy. Her mother left their home in Tanzania while her father was in prison, leaving her, the eldest child, with seven siblings to care for on her own. The predicament led her to engage in …
Continue reading The voice of a young mother: From poverty to empowerment
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 …
Continue reading Next generation virtual HIV programming for the COVID-19 era and beyond
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 …
Continue reading COVID-19 case management in Bhutan: Establishing a cadre of master trainers
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 …
