Advancing Paediatric & Adolescent HIV Care in Africa

We are living in an era in which we now have the knowledge, tools, evidence, and resources we need to implement paediatric and adolescent health programmes efficiently, and to provide quality HIV care. The biggest challenge has been a lack of knowledge and skills to translate what we know to work or evidence-based interventions into practice. To address this gap, STREPP has started three initiatives for the African continent:

The Uganda Paediatric ART Cohort — UPART to generate evidence-based interventions to improve paediatric and adolescent HIV programmes. The International Paediatric HIV/AIDS Symposium for Africa — IPHASA to provide a platform for stakeholders conducting paediatric and adolescent HIV research to share their findings. The Paediatric and Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative for Africa — PAHLCA for Ministry of Health teams from over 30 African countries who lead paediatric and adolescent HIV programmes and their respective stakeholders to share experiences and best practices. We have integrated implementation science capacity-building in the IPHASA and PAHLCA meetings, to equip participants with knowledge and skills to translate evidence-based interventions into policies and practice. Through the IPHASA meeting, we provide young African researchers with research grants to apply what they learn through the implementation science capacity-building sessions.

Join us and support our work to end AIDS in children by 2030, and to improve the quality of health of children and adolescents on the African continent.