Advocacy and Influence - PATA | Paediatric – Adolescent Treatment Africa

Advanced HIV disease (AHD) remains a major public health challenge and a significant contributor to AIDS-related illness and deaths.

Recorded live on 1 October 2026, this webinar brought together clinical, technical and community perspectives to examine gaps in AHD diagnosis, treatment and care, with a focus on CD4 testing, children, community leadership and access to the full AHD care package.

The session also explored practical actions to strengthen early identification, continuity of treatment and care, post-discharge support, access to essential commodities and investment in community-linked services.

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Advanced HIV Disease: Closing the Gap in Diagnosis, Care and Advocacy

Nicole Gwatiringa shared how decentralising Advanced HIV Disease services can bring screening, diagnosis and care closer to communities. This means equipping primary healthcare providers to identify and manage AHD, while empowering communities to challenge misconceptions, recognise the signs and help children and families access the care they need.

#LIVING2026 at AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference

For many children living with or affected by HIV, care begins long before they reach a clinic.
Across Cameroon, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania, community health workers, mentor mothers, peer supporters, and traditional birth attendants are helping children and families access care, stay on treatment, and thrive.
This short video from the Breakthrough Partnership highlights the people bridging the gap between communities and health systems—and why ending paediatric AIDS requires more than treatment.

Breakthrough Partnership: Why Community Health Workers Matter

This video highlights the realities of advanced HIV disease in children and the urgent need for stronger support at health facility and community level. Through the voices of children and a frontline healthcare provider, it explores how stigma, late testing, delayed care, and limited access to tools and commodities can affect children’s health. It calls on governments, policymakers, donors, and partners to invest in healthcare provider training, essential commodities, and the full implementation of the WHO STOP AIDS package of care, so every child has the chance to survive, thrive, and live a healthy life.

Every Child Deserves a Future: Addressing Advanced HIV Disease

In this short interview with, Sister Bridget, a PATA Healthcare provider Champion, speaks about the growing concern of advanced HIV disease in children aged 0–14 years. She calls for stronger investment, healthcare provider training, access to essential tools and commodities, and full implementation of the WHO STOP AIDS package of care to ensure every child has the chance to survive, thrive, and live a healthy life.

Addressing Advanced HIV Disease in Children: A Call to Action

PATA REAL Cameroon

This webinar focused on the role of Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) in strengthening advocacy and accountability for Advanced HIV Disease.
The session explored how community-generated data can move beyond reporting to support decision-making, improve access to services, and identify barriers within health facilities and communities. Presentations highlighted practical CLM approaches, including community consultations, patient and provider surveys, monitoring of service gaps, and the use of evidence to inform advocacy at facility, district, provincial and national levels.
Drawing on implementation experience from Mozambique, the discussion showed how CLM can strengthen collaboration between communities, healthcare providers and decision-makers, helping to improve Advanced HIV Disease services, address gaps in commodities and diagnostics, and support more accountable, people-centred HIV care.

Community-Led Monitoring (CLM): Strengthening Advanced HIV Disease Advocacy and Accountability

This PATA REAL session focused on strengthening paediatric and adolescent HIV care through localised, peer-to-peer learning and real case discussions.
The session brought together frontline healthcare providers, PATA technical leads, and expert panellists to reflect on facility-level realities, including vertical transmission prevention, maternal and infant follow-up, HIV testing, ART initiation, adherence support, viral load monitoring, disclosure, and psychosocial challenges.
Through case presentations and panel discussion, the webinar highlighted the value of practical, multidisciplinary learning to improve service delivery, strengthen continuity of care, and support better outcomes for children, adolescents, mothers, and families affected by HIV.

PATA REAL South Africa

PATA REAL Nigeria

The May 2026 edition will mark the inaugural release of PATA REAL fully facilitated in Portuguese by the HIVE team in Mozambique. This edition has been specifically designed for healthcare providers in Mozambique, addressing the challenges, experiences, and local realities associated with delivering pediatric and adolescent HIV care.

PATA REAL Mozambique

PATA Strategic Partnership Forum

PATA REAL 10 April 2026

This webinar provided an orientation on South Africa’s 2023 Vertical Transmission Prevention (VTP) guidelines, with a focus on supporting healthcare workers to strengthen implementation at local level.
The session covered the triple elimination agenda for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B, including ANC screening and management, PrEP for pregnant and breastfeeding women, newborn care, congenital syphilis notification, monitoring and evaluation, and the Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children commitments.
Hosted as part of the HIVE project, the session featured technical guidance from the National Department of Health and highlighted the importance of integrated, family-centred care to prevent vertical transmission and improve outcomes for mothers, infants and families.

Vertical Transmission Prevention (VTP) guideline Orientation

PATA REAL November 2025

PATA Hub - 2025 virtual graduation

My Healthcare Provider and Me is a collection of deeply personal and powerful stories that celebrate the often unrecognised role of healthcare providers and peer supporters, Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS), who shape the health journeys of adolescents and young people as they navigate life with HIV.

Nonhlanhla Mazaleni | My Healthcare Provider and Me

Nobum Nini | My Healthcare Provider and Me

Nobubele Qendu | My Healthcare Provider and Me

Madeleine Muller | My Healthcare Provider and Me

Dr Anastacia Tomson | My Healthcare Provider and Me

South Africa Global Alliance Webinar | Kicking Off a New Series to End AIDS in Children by 2030. This is the first in a powerful new webinar series led by the South Africa Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children by 2030.

In this session, we unpack children’s rights in HIV testing — exploring what it truly means to act in the best interest of every child. Leaders from government, civil society, healthcare, and youth networks share insights on ethical HIV testing, consent, disclosure, and protection, while discussing the national roadmap, progress, and partnerships shaping South Africa’s commitment to ending AIDS in children, adolescents, and pregnant women.
Watch now to hear inspiring voices, practical lessons, and rights-based solutions driving an AIDS-free generation.

Acting in the Best Interest of the Child: Children’s Rights in HIV Testing

A real life example and guide to treatment optimisation

Peer Led Models Role Play

September PATA REAL Cameroon

September PATA REAL

June PATA REAL Cameroon

March PATA REAL Cameroon

Closing and Panel Discussion

Africa Cafe 4

PATA 2024 Summit Day 3 Prime Session

Africa Cafe 2

PATA 2024 Summit Day 2 Prime Session

Africa Cafe 1

PATA 2024 Summit Day 1 Opening Prime Session

PATA 2024 Summit - Day 1 Opening Prime Session

Navigating Disclosure and Care in Paediatric and Adolescent HIV Treatment

PATA REAL 26 September 2024

While closing gaps for access to safe and more optimal treatment options for children, the new pALD dispersible tablet has been introduced. A triple fixed-dose combination that includes dolutegravir and comprises a complete regimen in one convenient pill. This formulation aims to simplify treatment by replacing the need for separate tablets in children's treatment. This webinar brings together experts to discuss these updates on HIV treatments for children and actions that communities and networks can take to promote access and treatment literacy whilst discussing ongoing barriers to optimal and affordable HIV treatment for all children.

#BetterMeds4Kids Advancing Access to High-quality, Life-saving HIV Treatment for all Children

How do we respond to Advanced HIV Disease?

PATA REAL 24 april 2024

Day 3 - Lekgotla - PATA 2023 Summit

Day 3 - Africa Cafe 6 - PATA 2023 Summit

Day 3 - Africa Cafe 5 - PATA 2023 Summit

Day 3 - PATA REAL - PATA 2023 Summit

Day 3 - Prime Session - PATA 2023 Summit

Day 2 -Prime Session - PATA 2023 Summit

This video features experts from Paediatric-Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA) shedding light on the critical mission of creating a world where frontline health providers are well-supported, confident, and equipped with the necessary resources to deliver comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support services to children and adolescents. The discussion explores the current global context, challenges hindering progress, and the role of PATA in bridging gaps, emphasizing the need for a collaborative approach to end AIDS by 2030

Frontline Healthcare Providers: Champions for Children, Adolescents & Young People

Day 2 - Africa Cafe 4 - PATA 2023 Summit

Day 2 - Africa Cafe 3 - PATA 2023 Summit

Day 1 - Africa Cafe 2 - PATA 2023 Summit

Workshop Video Overview of S&S Package 1

About Screen and Support PATA Summit Video 1

Day 1 - Africa Cafe 1 - PATA 2023 Summit

Day 1 - Opening Prime Session - PATA 2023 Summit

The PATA 2023 Summit is a hybrid event, which is free to participate in and will take place simultaneously across 12 countries through regional in-country satellites, and virtually via the PATA Linking and Learning Hub. The summit is taking place from 14-16 November 2023, titled “The Face of Care: Health Providers and Communities at the Frontline of Paediatric and Adolescent HIV Service Delivery in Africa” is grounded in the perspectives collected from 801 participants, across 24 satellite sites in the PATA 2022 Summit.

Welcome to the PATA 2023 Summit

What is the value ad of the #PATASummits?

Why is it important for healthcare providers to participate in #PATASummits?

What has been your experience of #PATASummits?

What value does the #PATASummit offer health providers?

Why do you think #PATASummits are important?

Why is the focus of #PATASummits on health providers?

Theatre performance “Julieta's big decision” (English Subtitles)

Uma Historia da Vida "A story of Life” (English Subtitles)

Hear from those on the frontlines of healthcare.

Voices from the Frontline

The Breakthrough Partnership (BP) aims to end paediatric and adolescent HIV in priority locations through developing a sustainable and replicable quality package of interventions that is informed by the UNICEF Paediatric Service Delivery Framework.

Vox Pops Breakthrough Partner Meeting

The Power of Peer to Peer Support

Clinic and Community Linkage

Creating Sustainable Change to End Paediatric HIV Transmission and AIDS

PATA’s Health Provider Champions celebrates nurses, counsellors, doctors, social workers, pharmacists, community health workers and peer supporters who deliver quality HIV prevention, treatment and care services for children, adolescents and young people in clinics and communities where they Do it Right, Do it Together, Do it Every day!

Health Provider Champions share their stories from across sub-Saharan Africa

Theatre performance “Julieta's big decision”

PATA REAL webinars provide a reality check from frontline health care providers, and focus on Reviewing cases, Engaging peers, Accessing experts, and Learning from and sharing local experiences and innovations. On the 16 of May 2023, PATA hosted its first PATA REAL for 2023, and discussed some of the implications and persistent challenges in transitioning children and adolescents to optimal ART regimens.

PATA REAL March 2023 Recording

This video was developed by the PATA Youth Advisory Panel, highlighting the importance of adolescents and young people who are partners in delivering, monitoring, and improving HIV services for adolescents and young people.

The Power of Peers

PATA PATA Song

Day 3 Lekgotla Closing - PATA Summit 2022

Day 3 Africa Cafe 8 - PATA Summit 2022

Day 1 Africa Cafe 4 - PATA Summit 2022

Day 3 Africa Cafe 7 - PATA Summit 2022

Day 3 Prime - PATA Summit 2022

Day 2 Africa Cafe 5 - PATA Summit 2022

Day 2 Prime - PATA Summit 2022

Day 1 Africa Cafe 3 - PATA Summit 2022

Day 1 Africa Cafe 1 - PATA Summit 2022

"A story of Life” tells the love story between Dercio and Amina, two young lovers chased by gossip that made them run away from their village, after Dercio HIV diagnosis, Amina that is now his young wife, fully supported and helped him to medicate.

This play was created to sensitize through art a large group of adolescents and young people about HIV care and prevention"

Uma Historia da Vida "A story of Life”

Copy of day 2 slideshow

day 1 pix slideshow 1

Day 3 Lekgotla Closing - PATA Summit 2022 - DRAFT

Day 3 Prime - PATA Summit 2022 - DRAFT

Day 3 Africa Cafe 8 - PATA Summit 2022 - DRAFT

Day 2 Africa Cafe 5 - PATA Summit 2022 - DRAFT

Day 3 Africa Cafe 7 - PATA Summit 2022 - DRAFT

Day 1 Africa Cafe 4 - PATA Summit 2022 - DRAFT

Day 1 Africa Café 2 - PATA Summit 2022

Day 1 Opening Prime - PATA Summit 2022

Day 2 Africa Café 6 - PATA Summit 2022

Day 2 PATA REAL - PATA Summit 2022

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