Frontline AIDS 2020-2022

During the agreement period 2020-2022 Frontline AIDS reached 78 % of the targets expected to see and 66 % of the targets liked to see (target 50 %) despite turbulent times of covid, the war in Ukraine and Frontline own transition process. Examples of results in 2022: - Frontline AIDS' partnership reached more than 10.8 million people and worked with 1,163 community-based organisations around the globe - Zimbabwes parliament overturned the law that criminalised HIV transmission. Youth advocates ZY were part of the core advocacy team that made this happen. The aim of this coalition is to create space for Zimbabwean civil society to act as a watchdog and respond to gross rights violations of marginalised communities most affected by HIV. - After advocacy recommendations to support community-led human rights monitoring systems integrated in the subsequent UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report. - An innovation hub was created in 2022 to share learnings and profile pioneering projects happening in the HIV space. The hub currently features 58 innovations from 30 partner. - An end-of TASO-project evaluation showed unintended pregnancies and transactional sex had reduced after the project. - A guide was developed by Frontline AIDS partner SIDC and included scientific information on HIV, the religious perspective of both Christian and Islamic teachings about the topic. Religious leaders then have been providing stigma and discrimination workshops for people living with HIV and marginalised communities across Lebanon. A group of religious leaders has developed advocacy plans to support harm reduction. - APH i Ukraine provided uninterrupted services to almost 170,000 people from marginalised communities, supported the delivery of OAT, opioid agonist treatment, medication (over 100,000 pills) to 19 health care facilities, with a 86% retention rate, and mobilised 22 mobile clinics which brought vital services to 11,000 people. - The localisation process contributed to the development and strengthening of in-country emergency response mechanisms through technical support and grants to seven organisations in five countries. - Frontline AIDS established in 2022 a global coalition on violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people. - The READY pre-AIDS 2022 regional consultation brought together 52 young people from 10 countries. With support from Frontline AIDS and Y, this group of young advocates developed an outcome statement that harnesses the power of young people's voices to influence change in the HIV response. - Furthering the plans for a more distributed leadership model Frontline AIDS handed over leadership of three of the actions to three partners NACOSA, REPSSI and APH. - More outcomes now relate to changes among national governments and local governments as well as other social actors incl. religious leaders, youth, communities, colleges and pharmaceutical companies. This is a change from previously mostly influencing Frontline AIDS partners. - Due to a change of Frontline AIDS structure and operating model, in 2022 they reduced their carbon footprint by 71% compared to 2019.

The 2020-22 core funding support from Sida aims to enable Frontline AIDS, a partnership of civil society organisations, to deliver on the Global Plan of Action 2020-2025.  The vision of this Plan is a future free from AIDS for everyone, everywhere. The mission is to break down the social, political and legal barriers that marginalised people face and stand in the way of the end of AIDS. Ten critical actions will be prioritized under four partnership promises:  I. Speak truth 1. Engage and influence governments and donors to improve access to comprehensive HIV prevention services (including comprehensive sexuality education and harm reduction) to stop marginalised people acquiring HIV. 2. Drive conversations with governments and donors to secure integrated testing, treatment and care for HIV-TB/HIV-hepatitis C to stop people living with HIV from dying. II. Unlock barriers 3. Work with marginalised people and their communities to prevent and respond to violence to improve access to, and uptake of, HIV services. 4. Convene community networks to document and respond to human rights violations to hold governments and the private sector to account. 5. Challenge harmful and discriminatory social and gender norms that prevent marginalised people from claiming their right to health. III. Invest in solutions 6. Innovate, evidence and promote tailored, sustainable and inclusive prevention, treatment and care programmes* to reach marginalised people living with, or at risk of acquiring, HIV that can be taken to scale by governments. * including access to HIV prevention, testing and treatment, integrated HIV and TB/hepatitis C/cervical cancer screening,integrated psychosocial support, sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV literacy, harm reduction and rights. 7. Invest in partnerships to create tailored economic and educational opportunities for people living with HIV in order to improve their quality of life as well as HIV prevention and treatment outcomes. 8. Invest in, and advocate for greater recognition of and research into, mental health services for people living with HIV in order to improve their quality of life as well as HIV prevention and treatment outcomes. IV. Build a sustainable future 9. Strengthen community and national health systems and structures to ensure that sustainable, inclusive and evidence informed HIV prevention, treatment and care services are integral to universal health coverage and social support programmes, with full financing by national governments following transition from donor support. 10. Develop a new generation of leaders and activists who advocate for the right to good health and wellbeing for all and who meaningfully participate in, and lead, the HIV response. Frontline AIDS believes that, if the actions in this plan are successful, they will make a significant contribution towards global efforts to reduce new HIV infections (goal 1) and AIDS-related deaths (goal 2).