Throughout 2022, our partners were increasingly strengthening evidence about human rights barriers to inform their own programming and advocate for policy and programming reforms.

• SIDC in Lebanon analysed its data collected through REAct, a community-led monitoring tool, and used it to set priorities, including making recommendations for policy reforms to address evidenced human rights violations.
• CYSRA and PHAU in Uganda, BONELA in Botswana and LVCT Health in Kenya used their REAct data to sensitise state perpetrators of rights violations, such as healthcare providers and police officers, and to engage in legal literacy dialogues with community members on critical issues.
• NESS in Tunisia conducted the first quantitative study on migrants’ access to healthcare services in the country, with support from the Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism and other national stakeholders. The study led to an advocacy note being developed on how to improve the access of people from vulnerable migrant groups to HIV prevention, care and human rights support services.

Frontline AIDS designs and generates evidence about innovative approaches, so that lessons can be applied at scale within our partnership, by national governments, donors and other civil society actors. Innovation can take the form of a new action. Or it can be a new way of scaling up an existing intervention, making it more effective or adapting it to new contexts, in new combinations or for different populations.

In order to share this evidence more effectively we launched an online platform called the Innovation Hub in November 2022, in collaboration with strategic partners NACOSA from South Africa and LVCT Health in Kenya. The hub currently features 58 innovations from 30 partners.

Young people are the driving force of the READY movement. We use an innovative, youth-centred model to identify adolescents and young people then train them as peer supporters and advocates. It is these young people who drive the programme.

In 2022, Frontline AIDS launched the READY Academy, which in its first year strengthened the capacity of 26 promising young advocates whose lives are affected by HIV. Being part of the READY Academy has enabled these youth advocates to make vital connections and build movements. All are working on global advocacy issues aligned with important SRHR strategies, such as the UNAIDS Global AIDS Strategy, the regional Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands SRHR strategy, the Southern African Development Community SRHR Strategy and the ESA Commitment.

But this is just the beginning. In the years to come, the READY Academy will be a crucial tool in fostering a network of highly-skilled, highly motivated young people working towards critical global advocacy issues.

Through the READY programme, we have reached over 36,000 adolescents and young people living with HIV, through evidence-based interventions.

In 2022, Frontline AIDS together with partners has strongly advocated that civil society organisations (CSOs) with expertise in HIV were meaningfully engaged in global and national discussions on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) and included in the new mechanisms and funds being developed.

The Pandemic Fund was established in 2022 to provide a dedicated stream of additional long-term financing to strengthen PPPR capabilities and address critical gaps in low- and middle-income countries. Frontline AIDS contributed to ensuring that civil society and communities have a minimum of two voting seats on the fund’s governance board, and that the fund itself builds on the learnings from the Global Fund (and the HIV response in general) about the key role CSOs and communities need to play in any pandemic response. As a result of this advocacy the Pandemic Fund is one of a handful of Financial Intermediary Funds to have voting seats for civil society on its board.