EpiC is an eight-year global initiative that provides strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery to achieve HIV epidemic control and strengthen global health security.
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a global mental health crisis, making the provision of mental health and psychosocial support a critical component of comprehensive HIV programming. In the first year of the pandemic alone, the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by 25 percent. Given the proximity to the initial outbreak, Southeast Asia was one of the first regions affected by the pandemic.
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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.
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This webinar featured an overview of USAID’s response to the global mpox outbreak, and panelists discussed successes of the interventions in Jamaica, Guatemala, and Benin. Presenters also reflected on lessons learned for responding to future outbreaks of mpox and other diseases.
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The INTEREST 2023 conference brought together experts in HIV prevention and treatment to share experiences around the progress that has been made in the fight against HIV in Africa, especially around implementation science.
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Peer support groups and opioid substitution therapy provided by SPIN Plus—a partner organization of the EpiC project—offer a new lease on life to those struggling with drug use and at risk for HIV. Read the story of Sher, who overcame his addiction and has since became a peer navigator to support those going through similar struggles. Using his own experiences, he helps others start anew and turn their lives around.
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FHI 360 is hosting a three-part webinar series with global experts on how to scale evidence-based strategies to address advanced HIV disease.
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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.
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Botswana was recently recognized at the International AIDS Conference for its achievement in reaching HIV epidemic control after surpassing the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 95-95-95 targets to reach 95-98-98 in July 2022. These results show tremendous progress toward achieving control of the HIV epidemic and demonstrate the extraordinary impact of the national HIV response. New innovations such as decentralized drug distribution (DDD) position Botswana to eliminate HIV as a public health threat in the next decade.
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