In recognition of World AIDS Day, 2018, Vice President Pence announced that the United States government, through PEPFAR, will invest $100 million to address key gaps toward achieving HIV epidemic control and ensuring justice for children, including by leveraging the unique capacities and compassion of faith-based organizations and communities. CDC's Susan Hillis covers PEPFAR's Faith and Community Initiative to make this achievable.

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PEPFAR Faith and Community
Initiative
Susan Hillis, PhD
Senior Technical Advisor
Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator
Washington, D.C.

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PEPFAR Will Invest $100 Million To Address Key Gaps toward Achieving
Epidemic Control Through Faith-Based Organizations and Communities
In recognition of World AIDS Day, 2018, Vice
President Michael Pence announced that the
United States government, through PEPFAR,
will invest $100 million to address key gaps
toward achieving HIV epidemic control and
ensuring justice for children, including by
leveraging the unique capacities and
compassion of faith-based organizations
and communities.
- PEPFAR Press Release

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COP19 Faith and Community Initiative: 2 Priorities
• Engaging communities of faith to understand the epidemic, raise
community awareness, and bring critical prevention and treatment
interventions to reach men and children with testing and services through:
• communities of faith
• existing and additional FBO partners
• Strengthening justice for children through preventing sexual violence for
boys and girls, as well as linkage to the justice sector through:
• integration of faith leaders and FBOs
• traditional & community leaders

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Engaging Faith
Communities to Find
Men and Children

6. PHIA 95-95-95 Cascade for youth

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Engaging Faith Communities to Find Men and Children - Goals
Rapidly increase the proportion of men
and children living with HIV who know
their status, are linked to care and
have viral load suppression

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to Find Men & Children - Activities
Messages of hope & targeted HIV testing/linkage/
retention for men and children, in faith communities
 Activity #1: Disseminate new messages of hope
down/across Mother Body infra-structures
 Activity #2: Expand HIV testing/linkage/ retention
 Activity #3: Decrease stigma and non-adherence
related to faith healing
Activities by Priority | Faith and Community Initiative
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Sample Messages of Hope for Men Tool – Comprehensive dissemination
Partners
Catholic/
Episcopal
Conference
Council of
Churches
Evangelicals Muslims Pentecostals
Other Mother
Bodies
Seminaries
Churches Churches Churches Mosques Churches Type
Partners Will Disseminate New Messages in every Major
Mother Body

10. COMMUNITY

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Ensuring Justice for
Children through
Sexual Violence
Prevention

12. Forced or coerced sex at sexual initiation
among females and males ages 13-24
*Data only available for ages 18-24 for Zimbabwe; data only available for females in Eswatini.
Forced sex also drives HIV
risk: secondary prevention
needed

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Service seeking and use among victims of sexual violence before
age 18, Zambia VACS 2014

14. Justice for Children: Violence Prevention and
Response Continuum
Prevents victimization and/or
perpetration of violence and enables
disclosure where violence occurs through:
Detection
Prevents further violence from occurring and
links survivors to services through:
Response
Child Safeguarding: policy assessment,
implementation, staff/volunteer screening, reporting
- Community mobilization and norms change
- Decreasing myths and victim blaming
- Parent/Caregiver education
- Sexual consent education
- Skill building
Prevention
Safety Planning
- Training for faith and community leaders
- Child Protection Committees
- Child Helplines
Promote justice and prosecution of perpetrators through:
- Training for criminal justice officials
- Support enforcement of laws and policies
Support survivors through:
- Victim-Friendly Courts
- Legal Aid
programs and policies

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Justice for Children -- Goals
 Prevent perpetration of sexual violence against children
 Protect children served by PEPFAR against sexual
violence while taking part in PEPFAR programs (child
safeguarding policies)
 Facilitate disclosure, reporting, and appropriate
system responses to cases of sexual violence against
children, with a focus on holding perpetrators
accountable

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to Find Men & Children - Activities
Justice for Children through Sexual Violence
Prevention for faith and traditional communities
 Activity #1: Education about sexual violence
 Activity #2: Evidence-based interventions
 Activity #3: Safeguarding policies for primes/subs
 Activity #4: Justice for children
Activities by Priority | Faith and Community Initiative
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Thank You!
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s
soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
Nelson Mandela