Podcasts
For several years now, Community-Led Monitoring has been on the rise in the HIV response, and particularly in East and Southern Africa. Known as CLM for short, it’s a tactic being championed and implemented to ensure that communities play a direct role in monitoring and improving HIV services.
In this episode of PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles we delve into CLM in Malawi, where civil society and communities are successfully using this approach to connect government decision makers to the gaps in HIV services and to what people really need. Thanks to persistent advocacy, both PEPFAR and Global Fund now recognize, through their funding, the critical role of CLM.
The episode features David Kamkwamba, a journalist and health advocate and the former chair of the Civil Society Advocacy Forum on HIV and related diseases, commonly known as CSAF, who tells us what advocates have accomplished in Malawi and just how they did it. CSAF and AVAC are partners in the Coalition to Build Momentum, Power, Activism, Strategy & Solidarity (COMPASS), which has supported extensive work on community-led monitoring in Malawi and across the region.
In this episode of PxPulse: The Advocacy Chronicles, Atuswege Mwangomale goes deep on the advocacy work behind the passage of Tanzania’s Universal Healthcare Law.
Atu serves as Head of Health Programs for Sikika, a Tanzania-based advocacy organization with a long track record of promoting best practices in governmental financing in the health sector and advocating for improved health outcomes. Sikika, together with AVAC, is a member of the COMPASS coalition, which uses data and coalitions across Africa to identify strategic campaigns that advance the HIV response.
Sikika’s advocacy has been crucial to the passage of Tanzania’s Universal Health Insurance Bill in 2023. However, full funding must still be secured for the law to achieve its intended impact.
Atu explains the promise of Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania, how Sikika built trusted relationships with government allies, and why working in coalition was essential to achieving success.
