NCG is commissioned by Evidence for HIV Prevention in Southern Africa (EHPSA) to conduct the case study series “Included! How change happened for key populations and HIV prevention”.

EHPSA supports more effective and efficient HIV prevention through generating evidence of what works and why in African countries with HIV prevalence levels greater than 10%, and through effectively disseminating this evidence to policy makers, planners and implementers to ensure the development of evidence informed policies and programmes. EHPSA is aligned with the Fast Track strategy to end AIDS by 2030 (UNAIDS 2014). In particular, it seek to support its devotion to use evidence to optimize HIV prevention programmes through a recognition of the rights and needs of key populations that have been left behind the gains made in HIV prevention and treatment efforts amongst the general population. Most vulnerable groups such as LGBT, prisoners, adolescent, sex workers, people who inject drug etc. are targeted by EHPSA and a human rights based approach to HIV prevention is applied.

The two first case studies of the series have now been published: “Changing attitudes in Kisumu: Reducing discrimination and improving inclusion for men who have sex with men in the context of HIV, Kisumu County, Kenya” and “‘Fellow Kenyans’: How Kenya achieved national HIV policy commitments for key populations by 2010”. The case studies can be downloaded here.

NCG Partners Catrine Shroff, Louise Scheibel Smed and Julie Thaarup are involved in the project.