Adapting to change
Adaptability is an essential characteristic of resilience, as all the stories featured in Protecting Global Gains illustrate. These programs responded to the unprecedented shock of COVID-19 with new communications and distribution channels and flexible financing. They deployed trusted local health workers to share novel information and services within their own communities. They collected and shared real-time data to keep essential services functioning. We hope their experiences will inspire a new approach to building systems that are flexible, resilient, and centered on people’s context-specific needs.
Nigeria Faces Down COVID-19’s Impact on HIV Testing
Nigeria’s Swift and community-centered action resulted in substantial increase in HIV testing, despite COVID.
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In Thailand, telehealth moves PrEP out of the HIV clinic
During a pandemic, a differentiated service approach delivers PrEP to more of those who need...
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Flexible programming gives young women in Rwanda the tools they need to get through COVID-19
PEPFAR’s DREAMS partnership sustains critical lifelines for adolescent girls and young women.
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Connecting Ecuador’s indigenous communities to health care through training in native languages
An innovative training program is boosting the capacity of health workers to meet the needs...
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Seizing opportunities in Madagascar to expand access to contraceptives
A pioneering effort to offer a self-injectable contraceptive is expanding contraceptive choice in Madagascar despite...
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Latin American activists keep contraceptive supplies flowing
A Peruvian family on the way to the pharmacy to purchase contraceptives. Advocates are using...
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Innovation pays dividends against COVID-19 and TB in Karachi
TB contact screening and preventive therapy continued despite the pandemic As Pakistan braced for a...
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Bangladeshi activists help sustain access to family planning services.
A family planning counselor awaits her clients at Popular Medical College Hospital, Dhaka. District advocacy...
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A better way to distribute bed nets
Rabi Dako stands with her daughter in Cotonou, Benin after receiving mosquito nets as part...
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Before COVID-19, Malawi was on its way to ending AIDS. Now what?
Community Health Workers conduct door-to-door screening for COVID-19 in Limpopo, South Africa. In Christopher Mlotha’s...
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How Massachusetts is learning from the Global South
Care resource coordinators support people in COVID-19 isolation and quarantine by providing social and economic...
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Resumed immunization campaigns are critical to preventing COVID-19 as well as polio.
Shabana, a frontline Polio Worker, administers polio drops to children in Roshvala, Faisalabad (Pakistan). Photo:...
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Empowered health workers, healthier communities
CHW Grace Karen Akinyi consults with her supervisor Shadrack Werunga, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: PCSU When...
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