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Campaign to End Pediatric AIDS (CEPA)
As a regional partner with the Campaign to End Pediatric AIDS (CEPA),
Health GAP uses advocacy, mobilization, and policy work to secure
virtual elimination of vertical transmission of HIV, early infant
diagnosis, and full access to treatment for HIV positive children and
their families. We are striving to dramatically reduce incidence of
pediatric HIV and secure universal access to treatment for all HIV
positive pregnant women and their communities.
As a CEPA implementer, Health GAP works in partnership with indigenous
civil society organizations in CEPA priority countries Zambia, Nigeria,
Uganda and Kenya—each countries that bear disproportionate burdens of
pediatric HIV, vertical HIV transmission, and high rates of infant
mortality caused by HIV.
CEPA’s core objectives are:
1. Family-Centered Care and Nutrition. Expand access to PMTCT+ and pediatric treatment, care, and support, including nutrition services, and integrate child and family services with other health services in order to improve survival rates and health outcomes for children, HIV-positive mothers, and their families.
2. Early Infant Diagnosis and Treatment. Expand access to early infant diagnosis and earlier and improved pediatric treatment in order to improve survival rates and health outcomes for children.
3. Access to Appropriate Medications. Reduce distribution barriers and increase the global supply of high-quality, low-cost lifesaving medicines for children and their families, including ARVs, drugs to treat opportunistic infections, and first and second-line regimens to ease dosing and administration.
4. Full Funding to Eliminate Pediatric AIDS. Secure the financial resources needed to facilitate country-level scale-up of PMTCT+ and pediatric and maternal treatment programs
In these four focus countries, our national civil society partners
include HIV/AIDS; newborn, infant and child health; reproductive health
and rights; and health consumer advocacy organizations. Health GAP and
our partners are working to ensure rapid implementation of and full
funding for new optimized WHO guidelines on prevention care and
treatment for HIV positive pregnant women and their children. We are
leveraging Global Health Initiatives (PEPFAR, the Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) as critical opportunities to accelerate
program scale up, and ensure the priorities of families most affected by
HIV, malaria and tuberculosis shape the national and global response.
Recent examples of our work include:
In Uganda we have helped launch a national advocacy campaign in support
of a landmark Constitutional Court case arguing that government non
provision of essential maternal and child health services violates the
Ugandan Constitution. This work was recently highlighted in national
media: see: Daily Monitor: Activists take maternal deaths fight to court http://bit.ly/ko8fAK
In Kenya our CEPA work has challenged the government to scale up its national investments in health priorities—for example the new national increase in health financing is 27% over last year, and a 38% increase in health funds since 2009.
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