COVID-19

An update from colleagues across East and Southern Africa about the SRHR issue still facing women living with HIV.

Mapping COVID-19 Access Gaps: Results from 14 Countries & Territories

Assessing progress on access to COVID-19 tools across 14 countries: Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Jamaica, Liberia, Madagascar, Nepal, Nigeria, Perú, Senegal, Somalia (and de facto state Somaliland), Uganda and Ukraine.

Democratic Republic of Congo Phase II

According to the WHO COVID-19 Tracker, as of June 2022, only 1.91% of the population have been fully vaccinated, meaning that it is one of the countries with the lowest vaccination rates in the world.

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Nigeria Brief Phase II

According to the WHO COVID-19 Tracker, as of 5 June 2022, a total of 46,391,592 vaccine doses have been administered.

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The Effects of COVID-19 on HIV and TB Services in China, Guatemala, India, Nepal and Sierra Leone: A Rapid Community-Led Monitoring Study

As featured at #AIDS2022.

Precision in a pandemic

Toolkits

This guide lays out the principles and dimensions of data quality for communities implementing community-led monitoring (CLM).

ITPC Global Annual Review 2021 – Standing Firm

Annual Reports

This report highlights the last year of work under our 2021-2023 Strategic Plan. It summarizes our successes, challenges, and operational capacity in 2021, and shows what investing in communities can do.

Topics: Access to medicines, Community monitoring, COVID-19

Analysis of Community Treatment Observatory Data for HIV and Hepatitis C Virus Services in India and Indonesia

ITPC provides CLM technical assistance for amfAR’s Treat Asia program

Data Gaps in the COVID-19 Response: Findings from a mapping exercise on access to COVID-19 technologies

Researchers examined access to vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics, as well as certain health systems elements. Here are the findings.

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Data Gaps in the COVID-19 Response: Findings from a mapping exercise on access to COVID-19 technologies

Here are the findings of an exercise undertaken in November 2021 to populate a mapping tool examining access to COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics, as well as certain health systems elements in eight countries (Bangladesh, Liberia, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, Somalia, Uganda and Ukraine).

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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on people living with HIV

Recipients of care and their communities are a first and central resource to address the epidemics of HIV, TB and COVID-19.

POSTER: Assessing the impacts of Covid-19 on people living with HIV in Uganda

COVID-19 amplified crises across health, human rights and socio-economic domains worsening conditions for PLHIV in Uganda.

Topics: Access to medicines, Community monitoring, COVID-19

POSTER: The effects of Covid-19 on HIV & TB services in China, Guatemala, India, Nepal & Sierra Leone

COVID-19 devastated some HIV and TB services while galvanizing others.

Topics: Access to medicines, Community monitoring, COVID-19

Unequal, Unprepared and Under Threat: Why Bold Action Against Inequalities Is Needed to End AIDS, Stop COVID-19 and Prepare for Future Pandemics

Publications

Titled Unequal, Unprepared and Under Threat: Why Bold Action Against Inequalities Is Needed to End AIDS, Stop COVID-19 and Prepare for...

ITPC Global COVID-19 Update (OCTOBER 2021)

In this COVID guide, we look at what the world has learned about the pandemic, transmission, prevention, what COVID-19 does to people, care, treatment and vaccines as of October 2021.

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WHO warns that HIV infection increases risk of severe and critical COVID-19

Overall, nearly a quarter (23.1%) of all people living with HIV who were hospitalized with COVID-19, died.

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Community Resource for Access to COVID-19 Medical Technology

Activists have a prime opportunity to prevent pharmaceutical corporations and others from additional profiteering at the expense of global public health—and people’s lives.

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ITPC at IAS 2021: How COVID-19 changed HIV Treatment

The impact of differentiated service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the central themes of this year’s International AIDS Society Conference on HIV...

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Integrating Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) into C19RM Funding Requests

Training Materials

English, French

In April 2021, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (The Global Fund) launched the second phase of...

COVID-19 timeline: free, fact-checking & research tool for journalists, academics, treatment activists & others

Make Medicines Affordable launched the COVID-19 timeline as a free, fact-checking and research tool for journalists, academics, treatment activists and others.

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Monopolies causing “artificial rationing” in COVID-19 crisis as 3 biggest global vaccine giants sit on sidelines

The supply of safe and effective vaccines for all is being artificially rationed because of the protection of exclusive rights and monopolies of pharmaceutical corporations.

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Confined by COVID: impact on women & girls living with HIV, their responses & what is needed next (webinar)

On January 27 2021, ITPC, Salamander Trust and Making Waves held a webinar to talk about the findings of community-led research on the impact of Covid-19 on women and girls living with and affected by HIV, including the impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Watch the recording here.

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Confined by COVID: Women, Girls, HIV and SRHR

Women described the new challenges they face in living with HIV during this ‘syndemic’, where the COVID-19 pandemic interacts with existing inequalities.

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HIV activists are essential to the COVID-19 response

Groundbreaking research has saved millions of lives, but the decisions taken by executives have ended millions of others. Countries should act now, and not to rely on the actions of pharma.

Malaysia and Brazil in the COVID-19 Response

Publications

While the two countries are vastly differents, both were ruled by conservative governments when the pandemic began. This report attempts to synthesise learnings from the difference in results and response between both countries.

The Brazilian COVID-19 Response

The objective of this report was to conduct an in-depth examination of key features of the Brazilian response from January through to August 2020.

COVID-19 Vaccine Announcements: Our View

Following on from the BioNTech and Pfizer vaccine announcement earlier this month, where we expressed cautious optimism, but also the need...

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Impact of COVID-19 on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in Eastern and Southern Africa

How COVID-19 is affecting the lives of women living with HIV in Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

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Who will get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine?

A vaccine must reach the most vulnerable in each and every country and around the same time. Who gets the vaccine first must be based on need – not purchasing power. We demand affordable prices and fair allocation.

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Impacts of COVID-19 on women living with HIV who use drugs in Nepal

Results from a community-based participatory rapid assessment of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on women living with HIV and using drugs in Nepal.

Topics: Access to medicines, Community monitoring, COVID-19

ITPC Global COVID-19 Update (October 2020)

Presentations

In this COVID guide, we look at what the world has learned about the pandemic, transmission, prevention, what COVID-19 does to people, care, treatment and vaccines.

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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Health and Human Rights Among Women Living with HIV in Nepal: A Rapid Assessment from a Community-Led, Participatory Study

ITPC worked together with Dristi Nepal to source, analyse and disseminate meticulous, first-hand accounts of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on women living with HIV and using drugs in Nepal.

ITPC and ICAP at AIDS2020: Differentiated Service Delivery for People with HIV and Non-Communicable Diseases

Solange Baptiste, Executive Director, ITPC Global co-moderated this AIDS2020 Virtual Satellite Session on ”Resilient Chronic Care Systems: Differentiated Service Delivery...

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COVID-19 Roundtable Series: Testing, Access and Pricing STILL Matter in a Pandemic

“Without intervention, COVID-19 tests are sold based on politics and profit instead of need.”—Solange Baptiste, Executive Director, ITPC

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ITPC Virtual Roundtable on Testing, Community Monitoring and Pricing during COVID-19

This webinar creates a space where anyone can ask questions during these times of misinformation and confusion.

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How Far Would YOU Go?

COVID-19 pushed these men to extremes to protect their own.

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COVID-19 pandemic: ‘An opportunity of a lifetime’?

All countries must act NOW to make an effective COVID-19 treatment affordable for everyone.

Community Voices on COVID-19

The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) held a virtual roundtable discussion titled Community Voices on COVID-19, to create a safe space...

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ITPC leads CQUIN Webinar: Perspectives from Recipients of Care During COVID-19

The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) is hosting a virtual discussion on COVID-19 and HIV, in collaboration with ICAP at...

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World Health Organisation: Q&A on COVID-19, HIV and antiretrovirals