HIV self-testing and PrEP, fighting health misinformation, innovations in GPP, and more!

September 10, 2024

This week AVAC is hosting a webinar on Innovations in GPP, sharing two new briefs to support PrEP access, a new podcast on strategies to counter health misinformation, and much more! 

Inform your advocacy on HIV self-testing & PrEP, PrEP for girls and women, and health misinformation

Brief: HIV Self-Testing and PrEP: Opportunities for scale-up

Read more here.

Brief: PrEP and Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa: the latest insights

Scale-up of PrEP since 2021 has allowed implementers and researchers to generate significant new evidence on opportunities and challenges for reaching adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Eastern and Southern Africa with PrEP services. This brief summarizes these insights.

Read more here.

Podcast: Bridging the Trust Gap with Kenyon Farrow of AVAC

In a new podcast by Health Nonprofit Digital Marketing, AVAC’s Director of Communications, Kenyon Farrow discusses how nonprofits can combat medical mistrust and disinformation around infectious diseases in a time of increasing epidemics and pandemics.

Listen now.

Innovations in GPP

This webinar will feature site-level, national, and funders from across the globe who have non-traditional approaches to GPP. Examples multiple perspectives – sponsor to site-level, will illustrate the evolution of GPP from CABs and town hall meetings to more innovative and partnership-based approaches.

Register here.

A call for unity, solidarity and government protection in Nigeria

Statement: A Call for Unity, Solidarity and Government Protection. Statement of Solidarity with the Nigerian Key Population Community on the Murder of their Leader, Christopher Ikpu Terfa.

Read the statement here.

Join us at the UN General Assembly 79

UNGA Side Event: Save the Date! Restrategizing Civil Society Engagement for Pandemic and Global Governance

Join AVAC and the Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) for a side event during the 79th UNGA High-Level Meeting. This event will draw lessons from the successful experiences of CSOs in enhancing inclusivity in multilateral discussions and implementation of agreements/treaties on topics such as one health, climate, human rights, and more. AVAC’s Samantha Rick will moderate alongside Eloise Todd of Pandemic Action Network, Lawrence Gostin of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Neil Vora of Preventing Pandemics at the Source and Olivia Herlinda of CISDI.

Register here.