Alliance for Public Health was featured in a case study included in a new advocacy brief for community-led organisations ‘Advancing combination HIV prevention’, produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and UNAIDS. The publication aims to support community-led organisations make the case for greater investment in HIV combination prevention at national, district and local levels.
The case study highlights how Alliance for Public Health supported Kenyan AIDS NGOs Consortium and its partners in Kenya harm reduction programme development within Dutch-government funded project Community Action on Harm Reduction in 2011-2015. The project improved access to HIV prevention treatment and care for people who use drugs, their partners and children; advanced their rights; and increased the capacity of civil society and government stakeholders to deliver harm reduction and health services to communities of people who use drugs.
‘Practical, effective tools that have proved efficient in Ukraine have been swiftly taken to practice in Kenya. When we are thinking about how fast-track can be achieved in AIDS, horizontal exchange is one of the most effective solutions. Alliance Centers* that accumulate technical knowledge is a good example of facilitating horizontal exchange’, says Andriy Klepikov, Executive Director of Alliance for Public Health.
Full publication is provided during Civil Society Hearing in New York this week, and can be downloaded here.
*Alliance Centres of Practice have been set up by International HIV/AIDS Alliance to bridge the gap between evidence and practice in order to end AIDS. All Centres are hosted by Alliance Linking Organisations. They draw on their individual expertise to connect, bring together and develop the Alliance’s collective knowledge, experience and community links on specific expert areas. Alliance for Public Health hosts the Centre on HIV, Hepatitis C and Drug Use. More information on Alliance Centres available here: http://www.aidsalliance.org/centres.