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 …
Zakaria Zoungrana, Capacity Building Officer, #EAWA, FHI 360 Jean Paul Tchupo, Deputy Chief of Party, #EAWA, FHI 360 Marie Noelle Bellot, Consultant, #EAWA Natasha Mack, Editor II, FHI 360 Chief nurse Abdoul Aziz Traoré sees the COVID-19 pandemic as a maze of unprecedented challenges for the work he enjoys most—making sure that people living with …
The following interview was conducted with Eugenie Kenda, a peer navigator with Yerelon+ in Burkina Faso. Yerelon+ is a local civil society organization and implementing partner under the USAID- and PEPFAR-supported #EAWA project. #EAWA is a five-year project with the goal of accelerating progress toward epidemic control in the West Africa region by improving access …
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Webinar hosted by the LINKAGES and EpiC projects as part of the Key Populations: Evidence in Action series. To access the audio recording of the webinar, please click here. On April 8th, the USAID- and PEPFAR-supported LINKAGES and EpiC projects hosted a special edition webinar in a series entitled Key Populations: Evidence in Action. This …
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Pamala Horugavye, Former Senior Development Outreach & Communication Specialist, USAID Mission, Nepal This blog post was originally published here on USAID Medium. Early in life, Pareena Chaudhary — a 40-year-old transgender woman from Nepalgunj, Nepal — struggled with her identity and her family’s lack of acceptance. From a young age, she loved putting on girls’ dresses …
Maurice Wangu, Program Assistant, EpiC Kenya Aubrey Weber, Technical Officer, EpiC Njambi Njuguna, Senior Technical Advisor, EpiC Kenya On Zero Discrimination Day, UNAIDS calls on countries to examine discriminatory provisions in their laws, policies, and practices and make positive changes to ensure equality, inclusion, and protection for those populations most at risk. To learn more …
This blog post was originally published here on Pact's website. Founded in 2010, House of our Pride was the first LGBTQ organization in Eswatini. For the past decade, HOOP has striven to provide a vibrant, supportive community for one of Eswatini’s most vulnerable key populations in the fight against HIV and AIDS – men who …
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Written by Rafaela Egg, LINKAGES Angola; Ben Eveslage, FHI 360; Denizia Pinto, LINKAGES Angola; & Caitlin Loehr, IntraHealth International “Here they come again with another ‘big idea,’ another innovation, to see how we can improve.” - Dario, community peer educator, Luanda, Angola Dario was not hopeful about using online or mobile platforms for his HIV outreach …
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Click the image below to open the photo story, "The work is hardest at the beginning: How key population peer educators and peer navigators are driving progress toward epidemic control in Burkina Faso." Click the image below to open the photo story, "The work is hardest at the beginning," in French.
This interview was originally published as part of the 2019 UNAIDS Global AIDS Update Report, ‘Communities at the Center" (page 42-43). Alex is an online outreach worker with Children First Agency where he focuses on outreach and virtual support to key populations in Jamaica. He studied Actuarial Science at the University of Technology and have …
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