To be effective, HIV prevention products must be used correctly and consistently. People with a higher likelihood of exposure to HIV must have access to the most up-to-date products — and use them — to reduce their chances of acquiring HIV. Learn how three NextGen Squad members are contributing to this work.
Continue Reading
MOSAIC’s youth-led, youth-focused webinar series was developed to be a safe space for young people to learn about HIV prevention methods that are in market or coming to market soon. Each session is led and facilitated by members of MOSAIC’s NextGen Squad, our team of youth advocates.
Continue Reading
In July, MOSAIC staff traveled to Munich, Germany, for AIDS 2024. The five of us were fortunate to be among our MOSAIC colleagues in attendance. In this post, we share some of our conference reflections, highlighting three key themes that emerged across our session attendance and participation.
Continue Reading
MOSAIC is heading to Munich, Germany, for the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024). We invite conference attendees to join us for the following sessions.
Continue Reading
Gender-diverse adolescents and young people face barriers to accessing and taking HIV preventive medication. MOSAIC has adapted the original, family planning-focused Breakthrough ACTION Empathways card deck to help build provider empathy for LGBTQIA+ and sexual and gender minority PrEP clients of all ages.
Continue Reading
Zambia stands at the forefront of a groundbreaking journey in HIV prevention. With its recent accomplishment of being the first country outside the U.S. to administer CAB PrEP, Zambia reaffirms its commitment to advancing access to HIV prevention technologies. However, the successful rollout of such innovations goes beyond product availability.
Continue Reading
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.
Continue Reading
During the first two years of MOSAIC, engaging in intentional, principled partnerships with young people has transformed our typical way of working, changing hearts and minds and improving project processes and outcomes.
Continue Reading
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.
Continue Reading
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.
Continue Reading