Community Action for HIV Control

Community Action for HIV Control

Funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the USAID (PEPFAR)

Implemented by Pact and its consortium partners, FHI 360 and AFEW-Ukraine

Project duration: July 1, 2021 – June 20, 2026

Project Goal

To accelerate Ukraine’s effort to achieve epidemic control by 2030 through improved prevention, testing, and linkage to care among key and priority populations

The project aims to increase the number of people living with HIV who know their status and are linked to HIV care (95-95-95)

Project objectives

  1. Strengthen existing HIV package with differentiated service delivery models for prevention, testing, and linkage to care with flexibility to serve clients’ needs depending on shifting demographic trends.
  2. Strengthen the capacity of community-based organizations to implement and sustain differentiated HIV service delivery models based on the needs of key populations and priority populations through civil society engagement and community empowerment.
  1. Introduce an enabling policy environment to enhance access to rights-oriented and client-centred HIV services for key populations.

Target groups

Key populations:

  • People who inject drugs and their sexual/needle exchange partners
  • Men who have sex with men and their sexual partners
  • Sex workers and their clients and sexual partners

Priority populations:

  • People living with HIV and their partners and biological children
  • Transgender persons
  • Adult men who do not identify as a key population
  • People who use non-injecting drugs

Community Action for HIV Control (Інновації для подолання епідемії ВІЛ)