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Doctors with Africa CUAMM
On December 1st, Cuamm celebrated World Aids Day with the local communities in Africa. In Inhamizua, in the city of Beira, Mozambique, many people walked down the streets to stress the important role of communities in the HIV/AIDS response.
Through its work on the field, CUAMM can directly testify the role of communities in the delivery of effective HIV projects. In Mozambique, for instance, CUAMM is implementing an HIV project targeting adolescents in partnership with three community-based associations and their role is crucial for the success of the project.
In Tanzania, CUAMM is heading a national pilot project to make sure the “test and treat” approach against HIV/AIDS is applied. The Test&Treat project aims to decentralize HIV services from hospitals to primary care facilities. Moving from health facilities to a community-based model should make it easier to reach and manage patients that live in peripheral and more isolated areas.
Grassroot Soccer
On 21 November Grassroot Soccer (GRS) supporters gathered to mark the 2019 World AIDS Day Gala. The convening of world-class athletes, celebrities, thought leaders, and supporters raised nearly £1 million, which will empower thousands of youth with access to GRS’s award-winning health-based curriculum. GRS programming has reached more than 2.3 million youth to date.
Two-time World Cup Champion and GRS Global Ambassador Christen Press took the stage for a Q&A, bringing the team’s message of gender parity across the world. Adolescent girls are particularly at risk of contracting HIV and are more than twice as likely to become infected than boys of the same age. The gala, emceed by George Lamb, was marked by appearances from Sir Alex Ferguson, GRS Global Ambassador Rachel Riley, designer Stella McCartney, two-time World Cup Champion Tobin Heath, and a special video message from David Beckham, OBE.
Pictured: GRS Co-Founder Ethan Zohn, former Zimbabwe Women’s National Team player Amellia Chifodya, Sir Alex Ferguson, GRS Gala Chair & Global Board Member Fiona Ferguson, and GRS Founder & CEO Dr. Tommy Clark.
Salamander Trust
Cervical cancer booklet: We have updated our booklet on cervical cancer and women living with HIV. This is also now available in Spanish and French. To access all three language versions, click here.
Dolutegravir policy brief: This updated policy brief is now also available in Spanish and French. To access all three language versions, click here.
ICW Latina / PAHO / ONUSIDA webinar on dolutegravir update: This Spanish language webinar took place on 11 December, supported by Salamander Trust. The recording is here.
GBV study in Latin America reports: This multi-country study, led by ICW Latina, was supported by Salamander Trust and Development Connections, with funding from HIVOS and support from ONUSIDA Latina. The webinar about the findings, in Spanish, can be accessed here.
Stepping Stones: Salamander Associate Ellen Bajenja took part in a plenary session at the SVRI Forum, as part of the CUSP collective. This session discussed the opportunities and challenges of effective and ethical scale-up of gendered social norms change programmes, including Stepping Stones, our flagship training initiative.
WHO new publication highlights four inspiring women’s responses to SRHR in their communities: On 10 December, Human Rights Day, WHO published a web annex to its 2017 Consolidated Guideline on the SRHR of women living with HIV. This annex features the work of Dorothy Onyango, Svitlana Moroz, Cecilia Chung and L’Orangelis Thomas. The report describes how their community-led strategies for the implementation of the Guideline has shaped knowledge, understanding, policies and programmes. This publication is endorsed by networks of women living with HIV and our supporters around the world. This is the latest publication in 6 years of on-going collaboration with WHO’s Dept of Reproductive Health and Research on the interlinkages between HIV, gender, violence against women, mental health, effective, ethical community-led feminist responses and our sexual and reproductive health and rights.
With thanks to UNAIDS and WHO for all their support.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
SRHM have published a new paper in their 2019 open issue titled Contextualising the lived experience of sex workers living with HIV in South Africa: a call for a human-centred response to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
"While access and adherence to ART can facilitate healthy lives with the promise of no onward HIV transmission, the slow declines in population-level incidence in South Africa, despite continued scale-up of ART, suggest that those at highest risk of poor health outcomes and onward HIV transmission are not having their treatment needs met. Moving forward, recognising the heterogeneity of people living with HIV and implementing adaptive, individually-responsive approaches, is critical if health achievements are to be shared by all".
mothers2mothers (m2m)
The mothers2mothers Mentor Mother model ensures clients receive the support and advice needed to access HIV treatment and remain in care. A recent peer-reviewed article published in PLOS.ONE looks at the positive impact the m2m Mentor Mother model is having in Uganda, where m2m clients are much more likely to remain on treatment and in care. mothers2mothers is delighted with this further empirical validation of their model. Read the full report here.
RESULTS UK
RESULTS UK has published a new report titled Tuberculosis and Universal Health Coverage: A Policy Report from Kenya and 31 other countries.
This report aims to define what provision of TB services in “the context of progress towards UHC” looks like in practice, and to what extent the recognition of the co-dependency of ending TB and achieving UHC at international fora like the UN and WHO translates to action at ground level. It defines an essential set of services that would both help to make the TB response “universal” and help to make the TB response contribute to the achievement of UHC more broadly. The report argues that, when done deliberately and well, investing in people-centred TB services builds every element of UHC. Ending TB and building UHC are not competing goals: they are deeply and inherently complementary.
Body & Soul Charity
In 2020 Body & Soul will be running daytime groups for HIV positive pregnant women, parents and their 0-3 year old children. Each session will have an element of "stay and play" for parents and children together, but also time for parents to meet other HIV+ parents and take part in a range of different workshops and sessions that address different aspects of parenting and family life. They will be supported by experienced and trained staff, volunteers and peer mentors who can provide the vital lived experience element of support.
Body & Soul will be hosting a breakfast briefing on Wednesday 5th February at 9.30 am to launch the programme, to share the details, and to hear from you on how we can support your patients and their families best.
Please email Kathryn at kathrynf@bodyandsoulcharity.org to confirm your attendance or with any questions
TackleAfrica
This past September TackleAfrica, an NGO specialising in football based sexual health education, received the distinguished World Football Summit Industry Awards in recognition of being one of the best professional organisations within the football industry. In one year, TackleAfrica trained 600 professionals to coach 18,000 young boys and girls with sexual and reproductive health education through football.
Recently TackleAfrica celebrated another huge milestone of helping 10,000 young people test for HIV across the eleven countries they currently work in, a huge organisational achievement.
In November TackleAfrica celebrated World AIDS Day by hosting a TackleAfrica Salesforce Corporate Football Tournament. The event was a day of football and networking at the Shoreditch Powerleague pitches followed by a champagne reception with guest speakers at the Salesforce offices in Liverpool Street.
Harm Reduction International
Harm Reduction International has released new updates on harm reduction services around the world. Read the Global State of Harm Reduction: 2019 updates here.
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