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Peer Educators: A Key to Ending HIV

Malawi

As a peer educator for the Jhpiego-supported Gateway Project in Malawi, John Banda* spends nights and weekends scouting Ngabu area bars, sports fields and other community venues, looking to help men in need of HIV prevention or treatment services.   Drawing on his own experience as a gay person living with HIV who, since 2017, has benefited from antiretroviral therapy (ART), the 34-year-old is publicly open and insistent about knowing one’s serostatus and seeking lifesaving care. With homosexuality against the law in his country, John’s work is sensitive.  The aim of this work is preventing and reducing the transmission of HIV, particularly in key

Telementoring Builds Skills and Breaks Down Walls

Zambia

When clinical officer Kaenda Kaenda transferred from the mental health department to the antiretroviral therapy (ART) unit to undertake a new assignment at Chipata Central Hospital in Chipata, southeastern Zambia, he realized he needed new skills to properly counsel and effectively manage cases of children living with HIV. His experience in psychiatry had not prepared

Preventing HIV amid the Pandemic

HIV Awareness

Cape Town, South Africa – Nurse Nomajama Nomnganga dons the gloves and apron she’ll wear during the first circumcision surgery of the day. On the other side of the surgical bed, Nokuzola Dyonase, also a professional nurse trained to do minor surgery, arranges sterile forceps, needles and gauze. For this pair of nurses at Jhpiego’s