Making Prevention Work:

Lessons from Zambia on Reshaping

the U.S. Response to the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic

 In 2008, SIECUS staff traveled to Zambia with partners from Population Action International to meet directly with those who shape how PEPFAR’s mandate is interpreted on the ground and those who experience the impact of that interpretation. In seeking out interviews and site visits in Zambia, we cast the net broadly in order to capture the fullest picture of the programs being carried out so far from Washington where PEPFAR was conceived; we met with PEPFAR grantees and non-PEPFAR funded HIV/AIDS program implementers, representatives from secular and faith-based organizations (FBOs), human rights activists, community leaders, peer educators, program participants, medical professionals, advocates, policymakers, officials from bi-lateral agencies, and religious and community leaders. These individuals are the ones living the reality of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia, and they are the ones who guided us through schools and dusty play yards where young people participate in HIV-prevention programs…(Read the Full Report).

Read SIECUS Vice President for Public Policy William Smith’s Advice to the New Global AIDS Coordinator, Dr. Eric Goosby

(FOR MEDIA!) Read SIECUS ‘ press release highlighting focus areas of Making Prevention Work.