Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project
In April 2019, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded FHI 360 the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project. This five-year global initiative provides strategic technical assistance and direct service delivery to achieve HIV epidemic control and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs by improving HIV case finding, prevention, treatment programming and viral load suppression. EpiC builds on the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded LINKAGES project, which focuses on addressing the HIV epidemic among key populations.
EpiC is led by FHI 360 with core partners Right to Care, Palladium, Population Services International (PSI) and Gobee Group. The project also draws upon regional resource partners (Africa Capacity Alliance, Enda Santé, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center, University of the West Indies and VHS-YRG Care) to provide technical assistance, as well as global resource partners who bring unique capacities (Aurum Institute; Dimagi; Johns Hopkins University Key Populations Program; JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.; MTV; and World Vision International).
The project works in partnership with and strengthens the capacity of governments, civil society organizations, other PEPFAR implementing partners and the private sector to introduce innovations and expand evidence-based HIV services to unprecedented levels of scale, coverage, quality, effectiveness and efficiency.