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Leveraging community-based HIV services to reach female sex workers with the COVID-19 vaccine in Ruvuma, Tanzania

With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, EpiC is now leveraging its existing HIV service provision structures and personnel such as peer educators, peer navigators, community leadership, peer referrals, KP-friendly health care workers (HCWs), and education and outreach systems to optimize access to COVID-19 vaccines among Female Sex Workers (FSWs) in five of the project’s regions, including Ruvuma.

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Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccination for People Living with HIV and Key Populations

April 27, 2023/in Clinical/Technical Guidance, Technical Briefs EPIC, FHI 360, PEPFAR, United States Agency for International Development Global English HIV, Integration, Vaccines Health Workers and Facilities, Immunocompromised, Response Organizations/by wpengine

This technical guide is intended to support COVID-19 vaccination programs to ensure adequate COVID-19 vaccine coverage among those most vulnerable to and living with HIV.

These COVID-19 vaccination strategies are based on and adapted from best practices and promising innovations from decades of experience designing and implementing HIV programs with and for PLHIV and KPs. These recommendations should be implemented alongside mitigation strategies that reduce exposure to and impact of COVID-19 on HIV program beneficiaries and staff and safely maintain HIV services.

Source: Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccination for People Living with HIV and Key Populations

HIV and COVID-19 Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Repository of Resources

February 22, 2023/in Networks, Resource Centers, Toolkit EPIC, PEPFAR, United States Agency for International Development Global English COVID-19 Response, HIV, Key Populations General Public, Health Workers and Facilities, Immunocompromised, People Living with HIV, SBC Professionals/by wpengine

The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project has curated a collection of SBC materials and tools developed by its local project teams and used across its country programs to support HIV prevention, care, and treatment as well as COVID-19-related programming.

Source: HIV and COVID-19 Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Repository of Resources

Protecting older adults in Indonesia through COVID-19 vaccination

February 22, 2023/in News and Updates EPIC, FHI 360 Africa English Older Adults, Vaccines SBC Professionals/by wpengine

The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project rolled out several approaches to increase COVID-19 vaccination coverage among older adults in DKI Jakarta, West Java, Banten Province, Central Java, and the Special Region of Yogyakarta.

Source: Protecting older adults in Indonesia through COVID-19 vaccination

Cameroon Vaccination campaign tools (5th round)

January 9, 2023/in Clinical/Technical Guidance, Fact Sheet, Technical Briefs ACMS, Africa CDC, Allemande, EPIC, Gavi, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Management Sciences for Health, UNICEF, United States Agency for International Development, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization Cameroon English, Français COVID-19 Response, Research/Monitoring and Evaluation, Vaccines Health Workers and Facilities, Researchers, Response Organizations, SBC Professionals/by Larry Ngassa

This is a collection of materials for Cameroon’s COVID-19 vaccination SBC campaign.

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