PEPFAR Archives - COVID-19 Communication Network

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.

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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

Take Your ARVs and Complete Your COVID-19 Vaccination to Stay Protected

February 16, 2023/in Posters, SBC Campaign Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, PEPFAR, United States Agency for International Development Nigeria English Other health in COVID-19 context, Treatment Immunocompromised, People Living with HIV/by Ramatu Ada Ochekliye

This poster encourages people living with HIV to take their anti-retroviral drugs and get vaccinated to stay protected. It also has variations in Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin, and Yoruba.

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Name: Ramatu Ada Ochekliye
Email Address: ramatu@ba-nigeria.org

Malaria and COVID-19 Television Spot – Kenya

February 2, 2023/in Video Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Kenya Ministry of Health, PEPFAR, United States Agency for International Development, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya Integration, Other health in COVID-19 context General Public, SBC Professionals/by Caroline Jacoby

Breakthrough ACTION worked with the Kenyan Division of the National Malaria Programme to develop this spot that promotes malaria prevention, testing, and treatment.

The spot also reassures audiences that it is safe to go to the health facility during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to safety precautions put in place. The spot has been broadcast regularly on four of the leading local TV stations in Kenya starting in January 2021.

Source: Malaria and COVID-19 Television Spot – Kenya