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.
Nigeria’s Swift and community-centered action resulted in substantial increase in HIV testing, despite COVID.
During a pandemic, a differentiated service approach delivers PrEP to more of those who need it.
PEPFAR’s DREAMS partnership sustains critical lifelines for adolescent girls and young women.
An innovative training program is boosting the capacity of health workers to meet the needs of Ecuador’s indigenous people
A pioneering effort to offer a self-injectable contraceptive is expanding contraceptive choice in Madagascar despite COVID-19
A Peruvian family on the way to the pharmacy to purchase contraceptives. Advocates are using data to help governments adapt quickly to COVID-19 disruptions — and get families the health care products they need Normally, it takes one month to manufacture a male condom; in the wake of COVID-19, it takes four months. Production times …
Latin American activists keep contraceptive supplies flowing Read More »
TB contact screening and preventive therapy continued despite the pandemic As Pakistan braced for a wave of COVID-19 infections in late March, the government issued a call to shut down 12 mobile radiology vans offering tuberculosis (TB) screening in Karachi, a mega-city of 20 million people. The vans are a program of the Zero TB …
Innovation pays dividends against COVID-19 and TB in Karachi Read More »
A family planning counselor awaits her clients at Popular Medical College Hospital, Dhaka. District advocacy working groups made up of local reproductive health champions urged policymakers to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) so health workers can continue to provide family planning and other services. COVID-19 severely threatens reproductive health services around the world. Supply chains …
Bangladeshi activists help sustain access to family planning services. Read More »
Rabi Dako stands with her daughter in Cotonou, Benin after receiving mosquito nets as part of the nation’s first digitized mosquito net distribution. Sophisticated digital technologies are helping field workers in Benin distribute malaria prevention tools safely and efficiently If COVID-19 continues to disrupt malaria prevention efforts, hundreds of thousands of children could die. That’s …
Community Health Workers conduct door-to-door screening for COVID-19 in Limpopo, South Africa. In Christopher Mlotha’s health district, Lilongwe, clinic visits for HIV treatment declined sharply when the country declared a COVID-19 state of emergency in early April this year. Mlotha coordinates HIV care and treatment (the ART program) for a district that covers 94 ART …
Before COVID-19, Malawi was on its way to ending AIDS. Now what? Read More »