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CROI 2024: REFLECTIONS OF A NEXTGEN COMMUNITY EDUCATOR

I attended CROI 2024 in Denver, Colorado, earlier this month after being awarded a community educator scholarship by the conference. What an amazing experience! I am still digesting all the science and innovation that was presented, but four themes stood out to me. In this post, I share my key takeaways through the lens of a community educator and member of the MOSAIC NextGen Squad.

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PRACTICING OUR PRINCIPLES: HOW APPLYING THE MOSAIC PRINCIPLES CHANGES OUR WORK FOR THE BETTER

When MOSAIC launched, we developed five aspirational principles to guide our work and hold us accountable to the communities we serve. Upholding these principles has led us to have difficult conversations, make challenging decisions, and change how we approach our work on the project for the better. Here we describe how we are putting MOSAIC’s principles into practice.

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JUMP-STARTING PrEP INTRODUCTION: LEVERAGING MOSAIC’S TEMPLATE GUIDELINES TO CREATE AN ENABLING POLICY ENVIRONMENT

When a country is poised to introduce a new biomedical prevention product, policymakers want to ensure that their rollout plan is based on the latest science and provides clear, standardized procedures for implementation. The WHO publishes global guidance on delivering new HIV prevention products, but those recommendations need to be adapted to the local context. 

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REAL ENGAGEMENT, REAL IMPACT: NAMIBIAN YOUTH ENGAGE IN NATIONAL HIV PREVENTION POLICY DEVELOPMENT

Meaningful engagement of young people is a key strategy of the MOSAIC project and CATALYST, its flagship study of choice in HIV prevention. But what does meaningful youth engagement really mean? As a youth representative of MOSAIC’s NextGen Squad and a program coordinator supporting MOSAIC implementation in Namibia, I have had a chance to experience it first-hand.

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