ICWEA attended a meeting on ensuring efforts to Scale up, Strengthen and Sustain HIV Responses hosted by Joep Lange Institute in Amsterdam between the 10th and 11th April 2018. The meeting aimed at scaling up HIV Prevention for Key Populations, Adolescents and Young Adults with a key focus on developing a Differentiated Service Delivery Approach. ICWEA was represented by the SRHR officer, Hajjarah Nagadya who made a presentation on current HIV prevention programs utilizing Differentiated Service Delivery (DSD) approaches in Uganda. ICWEA has been doing advocacy work around Differentiated Service Delivery Models in Uganda. The prevention also mentioned the current DSD activities in primary prevention programs for Key populations and a few challenges in its implementation.
In attendance were activists, service providers, donors and other dignitaries from USA, Kenya, Thailand, Indonesia, West Africa, Caribbean islands and Uganda. Discussions centred on identifying strategies and approaches to reverse and reduce the number of new HIV infections, with a focus on key populations, adolescents and young adults; streamlining and improving service delivery to sustain the overall quality of treatment; efficiently targeting the use of resources; and building new and more sustainable approaches for funding.
Key among the approaches was the consideration Differentiated Service Delivery in prevention programming and interventions. Ultimately, however, the meeting focused primarily on the needs of key populations, with the acknowledgment that additional discussions are needed to address adolescents and young adults from the general population.
