United for Prevention
The programme established HIV prevention coalitions in 7 countries and supported communities to hold countries accountable for their efforts delivering the global HIV Prevention 2025 Road Map.
Our programme, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, worked with civil society partners in seven high HIV prevalence countries: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
The partners in these countries collaborated to establish HIV coalitions that tracked progress against the HIV Prevention 2025 Roadmap, advocated for policy changes, and developed shadow reports to monitor the implementation of national targets
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Why the programme is needed
HIV prevention efforts have not been adequately prioritised or funded, leading to a lack of progress. In 2021, 1.5 million people acquired HIV, with key populations such as sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, and transgender people and their sexual partners accounting for 70% of new infections globally. In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls and young women remain highly vulnerable, representing six out of every seven new infections among young people aged 15-19.
Governments need to accelerate action on HIV prevention by repealing discriminatory laws, improving access to life-saving services, advancing national data systems, promoting the uptake of new prevention technologies like the dapivirine ring and injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and increasing financing to scale-up proven service delivery models.
What the programme DID
Partners in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe focused on ongoing accountability work to ensure that the commitments outlined in the National Road Maps are effectively translated into action – thereby reducing HIV infections.
Part of this work involves our HIV Prevention & Accountability reports, which provide a community perspective on the HIV prevention efforts to monitor progress, identify priority milestones, and support governments in their efforts to reduce new HIV infections and meet national targets.
How and where the programme is working
The United for Prevention programme was implemented by a consortium led by Frontline AIDS, in collaboration with the following partners: Alive Medical Services (Uganda), DARE (Tanzania), Education as a Vaccine (EVA) (Nigeria), LVCT Health (Kenya), Pakachere Institute of Health and Development Communication (Malawi), REPSSI (Mozambique), and SAfAIDS (Zimbabwe).
The programme ran from April 2023 to September 2024.
The Transition Initiative programme builds on the coalition model established under United for Prevention, supporting communities and civil society organisations to navigate the long-term shift in global HIV financing, building resilient, locally-led systems that can sustain vital HIV and sexual and reproductive health services for years to come.
