Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Originally designed to address a broad variety of HIV prevention, care, treatment, and structural interventions, EpiC started implementing programs to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and bolster health systems to address COVID-19 in early…
January 2022 — Couple years of protection (CYP) is an output indicator which was introduced into programming in 1973 and is commonly used by international organizations and host-country governments to monitor progress and measure performance of family planning programs and to make assumptions about family planning coverage. CYP is the estimated protection provided by family…
August 2022 — This business resilience toolkit provides a framework to the private sector for mitigating COVID-19 and other global risks and promoting safe and smooth business continuity across Southeast Asia and beyond. Leaders and managers in businesses of any size may use the toolkit to inform their risk prevention, mitigation and resilience guidelines. The toolkit…
October 2021 — This set of tools supports FHI 360 and its partners in the design and implementation of demand creation and advocacy activities as part of national COVID-19 vaccine demand creation efforts. The toolkit is anchored by the Quick Start Guide. French versions are also available. COVID-19 Vaccine Demand Generation Quick Start Guide (version 2)…
This handbook was written as a companion to the Community Health Worker Provision of Injectable Contraception: An Implementation Handbook published in 2018. Like community health workers, trained and supported drug shop staff providing family planning is a high-impact practice that can increase access to family planning services. Drug shops, which usually provide other short-acting family…
HIV program implementers, particularly those who work with and/or are members of those at an increased risk for HIV, face a range of threats to their personal health and well-being, their organizational operations and reputations, and ultimately their ability to implement programs that effectively address the HIV epidemic. These tools prepare implementers to assess their…
Preventing, monitoring, investigating and responding to adverse events is an important component of safe and ethical index testing. Developed by the EpiC project, these tools — including a training curriculum and standard operating procedures — help HIV programs train their staff and health care providers on PEPFAR requirements for adverse events, as well as develop…
The EpiC project’s Community-led Monitoring (CLM) resources empower program participants and the local community to monitor and improve the quality of HIV services. As described in the technical guide, the CLM system has four components for collecting client feedback, negotiating quality improvement solutions with health providers and decision-makers, and monitoring progress toward addressing issues to…