Across Benue State in Nigeria, vulnerable children are being reached through community-led interventions that are saving lives. From infants to adolescents, these stories remind us of the critical and urgent importance of linking children with HIV to the care they deserve.

On 4-5 September 2025, THRIVE project partners convened in Maputo, Mozambique to deliver a targeted two-day training workshop focused on Hospital Care for the Severely Ill Child with Advanced HIV Disease (AHD).

Service Quality Assessments (SQAs) are indispensable tools for programs aiming to deliver such care, providing the data needed to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Zimbabwe's experience with conducting SQAs for pediatric AHD services, building upon CHAI’s 2022 Pediatric AHD Landscape Assessment, offers a compelling case study.

Zimbabwe's THRIVE project provides valuable insights into how strategically integrating the comprehensive STOP AIDS training package within DSD models can enhance AHD service delivery.

THRIVE-Zimbabwe aims to evaluate the STOP-AIDS package across an entire rural Zimbabwean district of Shurugwi. The project seeks to identify and overcome barriers to ​its ​implementation at the community and primary care levels.

The THRIVE project aims to dramatically reduce mortality among adults and children living with HIV by enabling access to critical prevention, screening, and treatment commodities, and centering local leadership and community-owned solutions to find and serve people living with AHD where they are.

The WHO STOP AIDS package of care refers to a set of interventions designed to reduce morbidity and mortality in people with advanced HIV disease, particularly children and adolescents. It focuses on preventing, identifying, and treating HIV-associated infections and other opportunistic illnesses. The package includes screening, treatment, and prophylaxis for major opportunistic infections, rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy, and intensified adherence support.

A key activity is a comprehensive Training Gap Assessment across participating countries. The aim was to better understand the current capacities and unmet needs of health staff directly involved in the implementation of the AHD package of care, including pediatricians, nurses, lab technicians, counselors, and others, to optimize its implementation.

In advance of our satellite session at IAS 2025, we invite you to meet a few of the people making this work possible. Each video offers a window into the resilience, innovation, and collaboration that sustain AHD care in the face of global uncertainty, as well as the significant work that remains.

Please join us for a satellite session co-hosted by Unitaid and CHAI at IAS 2025

When the funding freeze hit, community outreach services ground to a halt, including the ones that were used by Night, an ART client in Uganda.

A poster to encourage demand generation for pALD that may be used for distribution to communities and caregivers, or for display in health facilities.

This poster provides caregivers with information on dosing and administration of pALD to children.

The THRIVE project aims to optimize the implementation of STOP AIDS package through research and stakeholder collaboration. A key component of the project is the Pediatric Expert Advisory Group (PEAG), a stakeholder group led by Penta under the THRIVE project to facilitate cross-country learning, review the current pediatric-specific evidence, and inform future research and tailored interventions to ensure that each child receives the most appropriate level of care.  

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Penta is conducting critical assessments to address gaps by generating operational evidence across three countries.

Q&A with AHD Alliance co-chairs Tom Chiller and Nathan Ford to reflect on the AHD Alliance's progress over its first five years.

The International Pediatric HIV/AIDS Symposium for Africa was held in Kampala, Uganda from December 3-5, 2024.

THRIVE CAB members pictured at July's Kickoff meeting in Kampala . The THRIVE CAB is a key enabler to achieving the aims of the THRIVE...