Africa’s country teams gather to turn HIV learning into action.
The 2026 Pediatrics and Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative for Africa brings Ministry of Health teams, programme leaders, clinicians, implementing partners, researchers, community voices, and regional stakeholders together in Uganda to share what works — and move practical learning into national paediatric and adolescent HIV programmes.
A practical conference for countries doing the work.
PAHLCA is built around a simple but powerful idea: African countries have lessons worth sharing. Across the continent, national teams are testing, adapting, and scaling approaches to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, retention, transition, psychosocial support, and long-term care for children and adolescents living with HIV.
The 2026 gathering in Uganda will create a focused space for country teams to exchange implementation experience, discuss programme barriers, learn from evidence-based practices, and strengthen collaboration across national HIV responses. This is not just a meeting of presentations. It is a working room for practical learning, honest reflection, and programme improvement.
Country-Led Learning
Share real-world experience from national, regional, district, facility, and community-level paediatric and adolescent HIV programmes.
Best Practice Exchange
Explore practical approaches that countries are using to improve service delivery, continuity of care, adherence support, and programme outcomes.
Policy & Implementation Barriers
Identify what slows progress, from system gaps to coordination challenges, and discuss pathways for policy and programme action.
Cross-Country Collaboration
Strengthen networks among Ministry of Health focal persons, implementing partners, clinicians, researchers, and community actors.
How to take part
PAHLCA 2026 is designed for participation, exchange, and practical programme learning. Register, prepare your country experiences, and follow official STREPP updates for final dates, venue guidance, programme details, and participation announcements.
Secure your place for PAHLCA 2026
Join country teams, programme leaders, and partners gathering in Uganda for a focused learning collaborative.
Bring implementation lessons
Come ready to share what has worked, what has failed, and what your team is learning from real-world programme delivery.
Join practical learning sessions
Expect peer exchange, country updates, implementation discussions, programme learning, and collaborative problem-solving.
Take learning back into national programmes
The goal is not only to meet, but to strengthen country action for children, adolescents, families, and communities.
Built for national teams and the partners supporting them.
PAHLCA 2026 welcomes the people responsible for moving paediatric and adolescent HIV programmes from policy into service delivery: Ministry of Health programme teams, clinicians, district and facility leaders, implementing partners, civil society, community representatives, youth advocates, researchers, and development partners.
Ministry of Health teams
Connect with fellow national programme leaders working on PMTCT, paediatric HIV, adolescent HIV, and related child health priorities.
Implementers & clinicians
Share frontline lessons from service delivery, retention, adherence support, differentiated care, and adolescent-friendly programming.
Partners, researchers & communities
Contribute evidence, programme support, implementation science, advocacy, and lived experience to strengthen country-led action.
Because evidence only matters when it reaches children, adolescents, and families.
The strength of PAHLCA is its practical, action-oriented character. It gives country teams room to compare implementation models, share tools and learning materials, build relationships, and identify solutions that can be adapted across different health systems.
In Uganda this year, the conversation continues: how do African countries move faster, learn better, coordinate more effectively, and close the persistent gaps in paediatric and adolescent HIV care?
Join PAHLCA 2026 in Uganda.
Be part of the African learning collaborative strengthening paediatric and adolescent HIV programmes through evidence, country experience, implementation learning, and practical action.