PATA is a recognised regional advocate, collaborating closely with frontline healthcare providers and their facilities to amplify their voices and facilitate their participation in policy and decision-making processes. Frontline healthcare providers provide invaluable first-hand experiences from the ground offer critical insights and solutions for addressing the gap between policy and practice.
Their invaluable, first-hand experiences from the ground offer critical insights and solutions for addressing the gap between policy and practice.
To enhance our understanding of service delivery needs and challenges, we actively engage with frontline healthcare providers through rapid assessments, surveys and focus group discussions. These approaches not only enhance our understanding of service delivery needs and gaps but also enable us to collect essential evidence to support our informed advocacy efforts.
PATA Advocacy Efforts
Our advocacy efforts are multifaceted and extend across various areas to support and provide evidence from the frontline. This diversified approach allows us to address advocacy from multiple angles, ensuring a comprehensive and impactful contribution to the improvement of healthcare policies and practices.
Advocacy Campaigns
We collaborate with partners and key stakeholders in targeted advocacy campaigns, amplifying efforts to drive positive change in healthcare services.
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Advocacy Platforms
We actively engage in global, regional and in-country coalitions, working groups and learning forums focused on paediatric and adolescent HIV in Africa, contributing expertise and insights from the frontline.
The Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children (globalregionalnational)
The Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children (global/regional/national)
Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS (CCABA)
Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS (CCABA)
Gap-F
Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations Network (GAP-f)
WHO-paediatric-TeleECHO-collaboration
WHO paediatric TeleECHO collaboration
AHWG
WHO adolescent working group
EPIC
End Pediatric AIDS in Children (EPIC)
PAHLCA
The Paediatric & Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative for Africa
Child-Survival-Working-Group-CSWG
Child Survival Working Group (CSWG)
Frontline AIDS l
Frontline AIDS Global Partnership
RIATT
Regional Inter Task Team – East Southern Africa (RIATT-ESA)
Learning Co-lab
Learning hub on children and adolescents with perinatal HIV exposure
VYV
Young Vibrant Voices
Stories and Blogs
We engage in capturing and sharing stories and experiences from partners and those on the frontline, providing a tangible and human perspective to advocacy.
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End inequity for children and adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS: New data on financing
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Children and Adolescents Affected by HIV & AIDS: Expenditures, Needs, and Resource Gaps
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First-hand: The privileged position of health providers in young people’s lives
The coalition for children affected by AIDS
Views from the Frontline – Experiences of supporting key populations affected by HIV
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