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.
Using data and technology effectively
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.
A better way to distribute bed nets
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 …
Empowered health workers, healthier communities
CHW Grace Karen Akinyi consults with her supervisor Shadrack Werunga, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: PCSU When COVID-19 began to spread around the world, governments needed to get prevention information out into far-flung communities, and they needed to do it quickly. Particularly in remote settings, community-based health workers (CHWs) typically serve as trusted sources for this kind …