Through implementation of its 2023-2025 strategy, Africa REACH will create and enrich African-led accountability towards paediatric and maternal HIV goals on the continent; strengthen global and continental momentum for renewed efforts to end AIDS in children and young people in Africa; and establish a centralized...
In February 2025, at the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit, leaders from across the continent reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring Africa’s health security and self-reliance by adopting the AU Roadmap to 2030 & Beyond: Sustaining the AIDS Response, Ensuring Systems Strengthening...
During the African Summit on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and other related infectious diseases held in Abuja, Nigeria in April 2001, African governments made an historic pledge to allocate at least 15% of their annual budgets to the health sector and this vow became known as the...
In 2011, the African Union Commission (AUC) facilitated the process of developing an “Africa Plan Towards Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive” (African Plan). This was an accountability framework for tracking progress towards achieving the set goals...
Over the past decade, countries in the African region experienced slow progress in mobilizing resources for health while facing continued challenges. In their revised estimates published in 2017, Stenberg et al., developed two costs scenarios, termed progress and ambitious, aimed at strengthening comprehensive health service...
Comprehensive sexual education (CSE) remains a taboo topic in Nigeria, particularly for adolescent girls, who face barriers to accessing accurate, age-appropriate information. Stigma and societal norms contribute to these challenges. Africa REACH grantee, InspireIT, supported by the Ministry of Health in Imo State, Nigeria, aimed...
Africa REACH is proud to present its comprehensive Call to Action: Ending AIDS in Children in Africa. This document outlines the steps needed to accelerate progress in combating paediatric HIV. Despite significant achievements in preventing vertical transmission of HIV, there remain alarming gaps in treatment and...
The Catalytic Framework to End AIDS, TB and Eliminate Malaria in Africa by 2030 provides an overarching policy framework to respond effectively to the three biggest diseases on the continent. The objective of the Framework is to intensify the implementation of the 2013 Abuja Declaration commitments...
During the significant AIDS Watch Africa Experts Meeting held in November 2023, the Africa Plan on ending AIDS in children was highlighted, a crucial step towards our shared responsibility for health financing. This plan aligns with the Addis Ababa Commitments, emphasizing the imperative of increased...
Two decades ago, the global AIDS pandemic seemed unstoppable. More than 2.5 million people were acquiring HIV each year, and AIDS was claiming 2 million lives a year. In parts of southern Africa, AIDS was reversing decades of gains in life expectancy. Effective treatments had...
Agenda 2063 is a set of proposed initiatives that are currently under implementation by the African Union. Adopted on 31 January 2015 at the 24th Ordinary Assembly of the Heads of State and Governments of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Agenda 2063 is...