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Zimbabwe PrEP Ring Stakeholder Consultations Summary

This country-level analysis from Zimbabwe shares key stakeholder perceptions of the ring and is the product of consultations led by WHO, IPM, and MOSAIC during the period December 2021 – March 2022.

Community/Advocacy

Zimbabwe’s COP 2021

The goal of Zimbabwe's 2021 Country Operational Plan is to maintain progress from 2020 in key areas related to health promotion such as refining efforts to eliminate policy barriers, insitutionalizing client- centered services, helping the country achieve 95-95-95, and spotlighting HIV prevention and treatment access for all populations in need.

Key Population Manual for Healthcare Providers, 2018

Stigma towards vulnerable populations often leaves them unable to access HIV health messages and services. This training works to raise awareness amongst healthcare providers regarding their own biases as a means to remove barriers to healthcare access for the vulnerable populations.

Zimbabwe National HIV Communications Strategy, 2019-25

Zimbabwe has taken the first step towards integrating health in various different sectors by making this Communications Strategy less program centered and more client centered. With the recognition that people seek various different types of healthcare, this Communication Strategy highlights the needs of various different populations and delivers the tools that programmers, funders, and implementing…

Plan 4 PrEP: Step 5: Facility Readiness Assessment

Service Delivery

Health Care Workers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Oral PrEP Provision to Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Zimbabwe

This poster describes the results of a cross-sectional qualitative study, interviewing providers at public, private, and nongovernmental health facilities in Zimbabwe offering PrEP to explore providers’ attitudes toward and experiences delivering PrEP to AGYW.

Research, Service Delivery

Creating demand for the Dapivirine vaginal ring

This presentation outlines lessons learned from ring clinical trials and oral PrEP programs in Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe that can be applied to the development of demand creation strategies.

Demand Creation/Marketing

#GarawaPrEPa Campaign from Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe

Pangaea Zimbabwe AIDS Trust (PZAT), an implementing partner in the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded OPTIONS Consortium, used the PrEP Communications Accelerator to develop a PrEP demand creation campaign targeting AGYW in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. To learn more about this campaign, see this campaign photo story. Print Materials Flyer Poster (friends) Poster (family) Poster (peace) Poster (shades) Poster…

Community/Advocacy, Demand Creation/Marketing

Microbicide Trials Network-043 – B-PROTECTED Study

Microbicide Trials Network-043, or B-PROTECTED, is a Phase IIIb open-label study that evaluated the safety and acceptability of the monthly dapivirine ring and daily oral PrEP in women who are breastfeeding, a time of heightened vulnerability for acquiring HIV.

Research

Use of the Dapivirine vaginal ring and effect on cervical cytology abnormalities

This study aims to determine if the dapivirine vaginal ring and the ring device alone (flexible silicone matrix polymer) was associated with the development of cervical cytology abnormalities.

Research, Service Delivery