A Note from Planet Aid's Global Partner, Humana People to People
For the past 24 years, Humana People to People (HPP) has reached 24.8 million people with HIV prevention, access to testing, and referral to treatment including quality care and support. HPP is participating and making presentations at the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024 Conference) in Munich, Germany. The 25th International AIDS Conference to take place between July 22-26, is being held under the theme: Putting People First.
On behalf of HPP, Planet Aid's Executive Director of the Office of Global Partnerships, Marie Lichtenberg, will provide a presentation focusing on the implementation of the TCE program and the people at the heart of changing the course of the epidemic over the last 24 years.
Marie Lichtenberg presenting at the IAS Conference in 2022
We align with the AIDS 2024 Conference theme’s call to center HIV response on the people. For the past two decades, Total Control of the Epidemic, an HIV prevention program from Humana People to People has engaged people to take control against the spread of the HIV epidemic under the motto: “Only the people can liberate themselves from HIV”.
At the AIDS 2024 Conference, we will make five presentations. The presentations are all based on factual data-driven findings from HIV and TB programs being implemented in southern Africa - Angola, Botswana, Congo, D.R., Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia. Our major focus is on the success, innovativeness, transformation, and people-centeredness responses that deliver high impact.
Preliminary, reports findings from the latest UNAIDS report to be launched on July 22 at the AIDS 2024 Conference show that ending AIDS as a public health threat is achievable by 2030 but that success is being threatened by pushes to reduce funding and to restrict human rights. Taking the wrong path, by limiting resourcing or clamping down on human rights, would lead the pandemic to continue to grow, costing millions more lives and undermining global health security.
HPP focuses on the people and not the disease, equipping individuals and communities with the knowledge and tools to take control of their own health. We engage in community-based, people-centered, and targeted approaches to protect people’s lives against HIV, promote healthy communities, support the vulnerable, and save lives.
Our member, DAPP Zambia’s TCE program has shown that targeted community-based HIV testing approaches are effective in finding people who are unaware of their HIV+ status. The index testing approach initiates and pursues contact tracing of known HIV-positive cases for possible HIV infection: spouse, sexual partners and biological children. DAPP Zambia has achieved an HIV-positivity yield of 24% for persons who received Index Case Testing in communities of Eastern Province of Zambia in the year 2023 alone.
You can find more about our participation at the AIDS 2024 conference at humana.org.