COVID-19 and HIV: Adapting community-based HIV services during a pandemic

Lucy Stackpool-Moore is the former Director, HIV Programmes and Advocacy at the IAS in Switzerland. She is currently a Senior Advisor (consultative role) at the IAS. Her professional experience is founded in multi-sectoral responses to HIV and public health, “rights-from-below” approaches to human rights and participatory approaches that amplify diverse voices and enable community development. As a researcher and advocate, her work has focused on documenting and transforming stigma and discrimination in relation to HIV. Stackpool-Moore is a Visiting Fellow with the Law Schools at Birkbeck University of London, UK, and University of Melbourne, Australia, and supervises MSc projects with the Global Health Policy programme at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has worked for a variety of international non-governmental organizations and campaigns and has provided technical support to various UN agencies, donors and civil society organizations in Asia and the Pacific, East and southern Africa and the Middle East and North Africa.

Dr. Christopher Akolo, MD, MSc, FWACP, is an internal medicine/infectious disease specialist with over 29 years of clinical experience, including over 23 years’ experience with implementation of HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs in resource limited settings and provision of HIV services to key populations, especially men who have sex with men and female sex workers. Chris is currently based in Washington, DC, as the Technical Director for the HIV Department of FHI 360, as well as the Technical Director for the FHI 360-led Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project, funded by PEPFAR/USAID. Chris leads a team of technical experts and specialists that are implementing HIV programs across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He holds a medical degree and a MSc in Global Health Science from Oxford University, UK. He has been part of several global teams, including those that revised the current WHO STI Guidelines, WHO KP Guidelines, and the current WHO guidelines on isoniazid preventive therapy. His areas of interest include key populations programming, antiretroviral therapy, HIV treatment failure, PrEP, TB, STI services, operations research, and stigma reduction within health facilities.

Ms. Surang Janyam is the founder and director of Service Workers In Group Foundation (SWING), Thailand.