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Accelerating Access to Lenacapavir

Lenacapavir isn’t just another medication; it could be a catalyst for transformation. Together, we can seize this pivotal moment to revolutionize HIV prevention, paving the way for a future where innovative tools like lenacapavir reach everyone who needs them.

A Season of Listening

AVAC’s PxPulse podcast is back with its final episode of the year! This episode features Atuswege Mwangomale of Sikika, a COMPASS Africa partner. Listeners get a behind the scenes look at Sikika’s advocacy strategy around the successful passage of Tanzania’s Universal Health Insurance Bill, making health insurance mandatory for all citizens.

An Advocacy Chronicle on Universal Healthcare in Tanzania, with Atuswege Mwangomale of Sikika

In this episode of PxPulse: The Advocacy Chonicles, Atuswege Mwangomale goes deep on the advocacy work behind the passage of Tanzania’s Universal Healthcare Law.

A Year in the Life of GPP

One year ago, AVAC published the Good Participatory Practice (GPP) Body of Evidence, an online clearinghouse of tools, best practices and analyses showcasing the power of GPP. Here, we bring you a report from the year since – how this clearinghouse of resources continues to demonstrate the value of GPP, and concrete examples from 2024 of GPP’s impact on major research agendas and mechanisms.

Oral PrEP Prices in LMICs

I Am More Than HIV Prevention – Results from the HPTN 091 Study with Transgender Women

Introducing the Gears of Lenacapavir Rollout and The People’s Research Agenda

This World AIDS Day, the HIV/AIDS response stands at a crossroads, with injectable lenacapavir set to transform HIV prevention. But as the new UNAIDS report highlights, it also comes at the same time as restrictive policies, economic instability, and geopolitical challenges threaten to frustrate access and rollback so much of the progress that has been achieved over the past two decades.

The Gears Framework for Lenacapavir for PrEP Rollout

The gears framework for lenacapavir scale-up brings together a coalition of essential stakeholders, each contributing to the successful, sustainable integration of this HIV prevention tool into global health systems.

Gears of Lenacapavir for PrEP Rollout 

This document outlines a focused plan for LEN for PrEP rollout over the next few years, specifying priorities by stakeholder and evaluating volume and pricing strategies. The report as a whole details a coordinated response to this historic opportunity to ensure rapid implementation, equitable access, and sustainable impact.

Advocacy: Now more than ever

We are in a period of profound uncertainty, remarkable progress and tremendous concern—for the state of the world, for the state of global health and HIV, and for the specific work that AVAC and our partners do. We’ve seen incredible advances in biomedical prevention in 2024 with the introduction of the dapivirine vaginal ring (DVR) and injectable cabotegravir (CAB) for PrEP and the spectacular clinical trial results of injectable lenacapavir—the combination of which could transform lives if rolled out with speed, scale and equity.