The Ending AIDS in West Africa project (#EAWA) helps to meet the 95-95-95 targets to end the AIDS epidemic, outlined by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), through a focus on tailored HIV testing, treatment and care services for people living with HIV and key populations in Burkina Faso and Togo.

Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the project works to address gaps along the HIV service delivery cascade. This work is done in collaboration with local partners – including ministries of health, faith-based organizations, public and nongovernmental-organization health facilities, and associations led by the target groups – and aims to:

• Enhance the delivery of HIV prevention, care and treatment services
• Optimize clinical management and individualized patient follow-up of all people living with HIV
• Provide comprehensive, wrap-around services
• Strengthen laboratory services, including HIV viral load testing and monitoring of viral load suppression, at the point of service or through a laboratory referral network

Central to the project’s implementation is the empowerment and engagement of members of the key population communities. The project teams work closely with these communities to ensure that all activities reflect their perspectives and needs and coordinate with existing networks.

Success stories

• Continuous Capacity Building is Making My Work More Enjoyable and Effective
• New Capacity-building Strategy Technical Focus Component is Strengthening Local Partners in Push to End HIV and AIDS in Togo
• New Hope for the Future Surges When Frontline Trained Counselors Support Partners to Get Tested for HIV
• A Wife Wins Over Her Husband for HIV Index Testing by Trusting a Trained Frontline Health Care Worker
• Security risks in rural Burkina Faso endanger people living with HIV: Dr. Hassan Kouanda is finding solutions
• Improving Data Quality to Accelerate Ending Aids in West Africa
• Viral Load Coverage and Suppression Increased among People Living with HIV in Togo
• Bringing People Living with HIV Back to Care
• How #EAWA Togo Is Successfully Retaining People Living with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy Despite Disruptions from COVID-19 (English, French)
• Accelerating progress toward the “First 95” in Togo
• Making strides toward the “Second and Third 95s” in Togo
• The work is hardest at the beginning: How key population peer educators and peer navigators are driving progress toward epidemic control in Burkina Faso (English, French)

Country resources

• Summary of the National Demand Creation Strategy for PrEP in Togo (French)
• National Creation Strategy of the Request for Oral PrEP in Togo, 2023 – 2025 (French)

Additional information:

• How people living with HIV were found and brought back to care in Burkina Faso using a special campaign
• Ensuring treatment access among people living with HIV in Burkina Faso during the COVID-19 pandemic: A frontline provider’s perspective
• "You have to love what you do": Reflections from a peer navigator in Burkina Faso