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Nurhasanah (left), a health care worker in Jakarta, Indonesia, speaks with her client, Udur, about clinical care for PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis. The work is part of the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project. Photo credit: Ade Sonyville/FHI 360

HIV prevention

To end the AIDS epidemic, HIV prevention methods must be effective and accessible to all who need them.

For decades, FHI 360 has been leading efforts to evaluate, introduce and scale-up cutting-edge biomedical, behavioral and structural interventions to prevent HIV.

Today FHI 360 has a diverse portfolio of HIV prevention work in more than 40 countries, in which we collaborate with ministries of health, government agencies, partners, and communities.

We conduct comprehensive prevention work, including service delivery and technical assistance, biomedical and implementation research, and policy and implementation support to governments.

1986

Year in which FHI 360 initiated pilot HIV prevention programs in West and Central Africa

50+

Ongoing or completed clinical trials through the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN)

4.5+ million

People reached with HIV prevention interventions under the EpiC project between fiscal years 2020–24

Our approaches to HIV prevention

In all our HIV prevention work, we use data to measure the effectiveness of interventions and demonstrate the impact of our programs.

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Biomedical and implementation research

We help develop and test the safety and efficacy of biomedical interventions that can prevent the transmission of HIV. We also conduct studies of HIV prevention products and provide technical assistance to country governments so they can translate research into policy and practice.

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Targeted service delivery

We support local partners to deliver evidence-based prevention services. To do this most effectively, we provide physical and virtual hot-spot mapping and size estimation to identify where HIV testing and preventions services are needed most. Then, we implement an evidence-based, client-centered package of comprehensive services.

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Community-based programming

To provide people with comprehensive HIV testing and prevention services, including pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, we oversee community-based programming that reaches individuals where they are most comfortable accessing services. We also deliver community-based services for gender-based violence prevention and response as well as for elimination of perinatal transmission.

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Technical assistance and capacity strengthening

We provide technical support to local partners for delivering community- and facility-based services. We also offer technical assistance to governments that are creating evidence-based HIV prevention policies and introducing new HIV prevention technologies, including new PrEP products.

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Social and behavior change interventions

We develop and deploy social and behavior change (SBC) strategies that create demand for HIV prevention services, dispel myths and misconceptions, and motivate change.

Featured blog

Achieving the promise of new PrEP products to prevent HIV

Initial learnings from CATALYST, the flagship study of the MOSAIC Consortium, will help inform how to ensure access to PrEP for everyone who wants and needs it, write FHI 360 experts.
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