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Tag: Voices from the field

COVID-19

In their own words: Four of Nigeria’s health care heroes re-live a year of COVID-19 care

June 14, 2021
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... Continue Reading

COVID-19

Ensuring treatment access among people living with HIV in Burkina Faso during the COVID-19 pandemic: A frontline provider’s perspective

August 4, 2020
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 [caption id="attachment_1964" align="alignleft" width="689"] Aziz distributes antiretroviral therapy refills (Photo: #EAWA).[/caption]... Continue Reading

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“You have to love what you do”: Reflections from a peer navigator in Burkina Faso

June 1, 2020
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... Continue Reading

COVID-19

Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on key-population-focused HIV programs

April 10, 2020
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... Continue Reading

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Promoting an inclusive Nepal

March 15, 2020
Pamala Horugavye, Former Senior Development Outreach & Communication Specialist, USAID Mission, Nepal This blog post was originally published here on USAID Medium. [caption id="attachment_1879" align="alignleft" width="3000"] If participants in her home-based classes are reluctant to test for HIV at home, Pareena... Continue Reading

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Collaboration is key: Kenya addresses issues of service access, discrimination, and violence among key populations

February 26, 2020
Maurice Wangu, Program Assistant, EpiC Kenya Aubrey Weber, Technical Officer, EpiC Njambi Njuguna, Senior Technical Advisor, EpiC Kenya [caption id="attachment_1872" align="alignleft" width="4256"] Nancy Coste/FHI 360[/caption] On Zero Discrimination Day, UNAIDS calls on countries to examine discriminatory provisions in their laws,... Continue Reading

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Local partner profile: House of our Pride, Eswatini’s first LGBTQ organization

February 10, 2020
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... Continue Reading

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How an HIV program in Angola went online, against all odds

November 12, 2019
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,... Continue Reading

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"The work is hardest at the beginning"

October 28, 2019
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... Continue Reading

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“On the frontline” with online outreach worker, Alex

October 21, 2019
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... Continue Reading

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