Hi Reddit, we’re Tisha Wheeler and Elizabeth Mziray, and we work at global health agencies that are leading the global response for key populations in the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
My name is Tisha Wheeler, and I am a senior HIV/AIDS advisor for key populations at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where I lead policy making, design, implementation, and evaluation of key populations HIV/AIDS programs. I am joined by Elizabeth Mziray, an operations officer with the World Bank, where she supports countries in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their HIV programs. She is the task team leader for the Bank’s technical support program in West and Central Africa that includes support for improving the scale, quality, targeting and coverage of HIV services for sex workers and their clients through integrated technical assistance and a capacity building program.
We are here to discuss a special PLOS Collection titled “Focus on Delivery & Scale: Achieving HIV Impact with Sex Workers”. In our collections overview published in PLOS ONE we highlight the evidence that shows protecting sex workers from HIV/STI transmission is both necessary and feasible for controlling the epidemic. The eighteen papers published in this collection demonstrate the importance and scalability of existing interventions through four key themes: 1) epidemiology, data needs and modelling of sex work in generalized epidemics; 2) implementation science addressing practical aspects of intervention scale-up; 3) community mobilization and 4) the treatment cascade for sex workers living with HIV.
We will be answering your questions on Wednesday November 25 at 10am PST (1pm EST, 6 pm UTC) – Ask Us Anything!
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