In this issue: five end of the year SPARC stories, eight topline findings from the coalition health score card, in-country strategy labs and the all COMPASS strategy lab.
COMPASS Africa Newsletter (February 2023)
Year End Newsletter
Decolonizing Global Public Health – What Will it Take to Dismantle Racism and White Supremacy?
Thursday, February 16 at 9:00am ET / 2:00 pm GMT
Moderator: John Meade, AVAC
Featured speakers: Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, University of Global Health Equity; Tori Cooper, Human Rights Campaign; Tian Johnson, African Alliance; Dr. Peter Kilmarx, Fogarty International Center
Recording / Slides / Resources / Audio Transcript
Ready, Set, CROI 2023 – Prepare for the 30th Year of CROI
Trans Inclusion: Charting HIV Research into the Future: A Manifesto and Scorecard for Advocates and Researchers
Thursday, January 26, 2023
This webinar featured Leigh Ann van der Merwe — Founder and Director: Social, Health & Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender Women of Africa; Brian Minalga — AVAC consultant, Trans Inclusion Initiative; and Cindra Feuer — AVAC Senior Program Manager: Partnerships & Capacity Strengthening.
Participant Application Form
Download the application here or click the link to the right of this page. Please note, you will need to download and fill the application on a laptop or desktop computer. It is not possible to use a mobile phone to fill out the application.
The Advocacy Navigator is an AVAC initiative combining training and mentorship to young and emerging advocates in the field of HIV prevention advocacy. The program involves three months of coursework and project development, followed by three months of “implementation” whereby Navigators implement all or a portion of their Community Advocacy Project plan with the support of their mentor. More information at www.avac.org/navigator.
Celebrating the Role of Communities: A focus on choice in HIV prevention
Presentation given by Rosemary Mburu, Executive Director of WACI Health, on World AIDS Day 2022 describing her organization and providing a short overview of the field.
ViiV’s Community Stakeholder Engagement Strategy for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2022-2024)
ViiV’s 2022-2024 strategy for community stakeholder engagement in low and middle income countries pledges a commitment to Good Participatory Practice Guidelines and more.
A Plan for Accelerating Access and Introduction of Injectable CAB for PrEP (Summary)
AVAC published Translating Scientific Advance into Public Health Impact: A Plan for Accelerating Access and Introduction of Injectable CAB for PrEP to provide a comprehensive view of all the moving parts and identify specific priority actions and actors responsible for ensuring time is not wasted and opportunity not squandered in introducing injectable cabotegravir for PrEP. ViiV, policy makers, normative agencies, donors, program implementers, researchers, generic manufacturers, civil society, advocates and communities each have critical roles to play in the coming months, and this summary provides an overview of the plan.
COMPASS Africa Newsletter (July 2022)
Midterm Newsletter 2022
Developed by the COMPASS MERL team, this issue offers SPARC stories and details on the MERL roadshow.
MERL Handbook for Advocacy Champions
Everything you need to know about MERL for effective advocacy
This handbook has been put together from various training materials that have been utilized to build the MERL capacity of partners in the Coalition to build Momentum, Power, Activism, Strategy and Solidarity in Africa (COMPASS); between 2018 and 2021.
The overarching aim of this handbook is to enhance theimpact of campaigns; by empowering you with tools to monitor, evaluate and learn from your advocacy. This is a simple guide to understand advocacy MERL!