Not Just for Candy Anymore: Tanzania gives vending machines a new use.
During COVID, Tanzania increased access to safer sex products and services with technology-based and community-centered solution- vending machines.
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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.
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 it.
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.
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 of Ecuador’s indigenous people
Abiyamo Alayo: Happy Mother Radio Show Takes Community Outreach Virtual
Establishing new channels to connect clinics and communities in Nigeria
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 COVID-19
Latin American activists keep contraceptive supplies flowing
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 …
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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 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 …
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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 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 …
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