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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As the PrEP category expands to include new products, our marketing and demand generation efforts must communicate with young women about PrEP and product choice in their language so they are ultimately inspired to act. That’s why MOSAIC set out to build a strong, evidence-informed, unified brand for the category.
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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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Emerging products provide more options and the potential for individuals to find the HIV prevention methods that best suit their needs and preferences. But what does PrEP choice look like, and how can it be protected for all individuals who could benefit from HIV prevention? This blog post presents the choice principles, offers illustrative examples of each principle, and outlines what could come next to advance choice in HIV prevention efforts.
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PrEP-it — launched in 2019 as a Microsoft Excel-based tool for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programs and then as a more user-friendly online tool in 2021 — had been used in only a handful of countries prior to August 2022 to set targets for PrEP coverage and forecast commodity needs. Given the response to two recent workshops held in Lusaka, Zambia, that is changing now.
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Any two people can use Empathways together. But in the global HIV care, prevention, and treatment community, Jhpiego has leveraged an adapted version of the tool, using it to bring together groups of people who have relationships that are uncomfortable at best, and downright traumatizing at worst.
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Maximizing Options to Advance Informed Choice for HIV Prevention (MOSAIC) is a five-year (2021-2026) global project funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This blog platform, officially launched in January 2022, will feature curated content from the MOSAIC project, as well as relevant content from others working to expand access to a multi-product HIV prevention market.
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