Reaching the Unreached: Novel Online-to-Offline (O2O) model to optimize HIV prevention to care cascade

Session Title:
Reaching the Unreached: Service Uptake and Retention Among Marginalized Populations

Presentation Title:
Novel Online-to-Offline (O2O) model to optimize HIV prevention to care cascade

Presenter: Tarandeep Anand

Code: WEWS03
Session Type: Scientific Workshop
Venue: Session Room 10
Date Time: Wednesday 20 July, 2016, 11:00 - 12:30

Co-Facilitators:
Tarandeep Anand, Zoe Duby, Ingrid Katz

Many sub-populations from low- to high-income settings are unable to access adequate HIV testing and treatment programmes. For certain key populations, these services either do not exist or are not easily accessible due to stigma and criminalization. These high-risk individuals are not being reached by prevention and care messaging, choose not to access services for a variety of reasons, or are being lost even after they enter the treatment cascade. There is a persistent mismatch between national programme messaging and the delivery of services to those most at risk of HIV infection (e.g. resources for school-based prevention instead of support for people who inject drugs). The workshop presents examples of successful programmes for access and service delivery that have been able to reach these unreached populations.