Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS is underway!

Various stakeholders are making final preparations for the rapidly approaching XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Vienna, Austria. Among them are the partners of the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA). Having undertaken months of planning in partnership with Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) and iScale, the Campaign is fully underway in Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia and is already making progress.

During the Campaign's careful planning process, iScale has supported CEPA to develop an Impacts Planning, Assessment, Reporting, and Learning (IPARL) framework through which partners have developed and aligned strategic objectives at various levels, from local to global, to scale up prevention of parent-to-child transmission (PPTCT+) and pediatric diagnosis, treatment, and care programs. The IPARL framework will now help Partners to track Campaign progress in real-time and make adjustments along the way to most effectively achieve the Campaign's goals. Recently, iScale and GAA used their CEPA planning experience to collaborate on the the development of a CEPA advocacy toolkit, which provides a step-by-step guide to those interested in replicating CEPA in other countries. This toolkit will be made available for the first time in Vienna during the IAC.

Through the CEPA initiative, iScale is applying and honing its IPARL innovation. CEPA is also connected to a broader effort by iScale and GAA to explore synergies between addressing AIDS and achieving the Millennium Development Goals in order to scale impact.