Voices from the Frontline

PATA voices is a collection of frontline healthcare provider stories, insights, and experiences. This page is for healthcare providers by healthcare providers. Frontline healthcare workers are the face of care to the millions of children, adolescents, and communities affected by HIV that they serve. This is a safe space for healthcare providers to share their challenges, experiences, struggles, and achievements in a caring community.

Please join us to acknowledge, show appreciation and value those on the frontline.

Healthcare Provider Champions for Children, Adolescents and Young People

PATA’s Healthcare 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!

Meet some healthcare provider champions that we’ve celebrated.

We are always looking for stories and insights into how healthcare providers are #DoingTheRightThing. Share a story about yourself or a healthcare provider that inspires you. and sSelect stories will be featured on PATA’s website and beyond!

Share your healthcare provider story

Clinic Champions

Adolescents adhere to care when the appropriate services are provided. The Nkwen Baptist Health Center says it is possible.

“14 years ago, when I started treatment, I was obliged to listen to what I considered absurd lectures amid adults at treatment centres and queued in with them for my ARVs. Before long, I defaulted. I didn’t see how it was helping me.” For Donald, who is now 28-years-old, HIV services were incredibly unfriendly when he was a 14-year-old adolescent.

Our COVID-19 Action Plan

As the frontline of health service delivery faced an emergency in the face of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, PATA’s action plan for COVID-19 aimed to support frontline health providers across the PATA network. We also asked frontline health providers to complete surveys in 2020 and 2021, which enabled us to better understand frontline realities and help frontline health providers get what they need during the pandemic.

Our podcast series

PATA Podcast Series is a 3-part series featuring health providers giving advice to their peers on how to be COVID-19 ready on the frontline.

PATA introduced the PATA Podcast Series, for health providers by health providers to promote resilience by creating a sense of community, where health providers share experiences and give advice to their peers on how to be COVID-19 ready on the frontline.

PATA Podcast Series

Episode 1

How to get primary health facilities ready for #COVID19 and beyond. Featured in this episode are health providers Epie Fanny, Athience Matongo and Eugene Mupakile.

PATA Podcast Series

Episode 2

How health facilities are adapting #HIV treatment and care for children, adolescents, and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured in this episode are health providers Caroline Nyandat and Naomi Monda.

PATA Podcast Series

Episode 3

The importance of managing stress, mental health and self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured in this episode are health providers Roger Bedford and Epie Fanny.

Our song

The PATA PATA Song, recorded in 2016 by Dr Patrick Oyaro, PATA Board member and Chief Executive Office of Health Innovations, Kenya calls for us to unite and end AIDS for all children once and for all.

Messages of Support:

PATA invites all to acknowledge and show support for frontline healthcare providers. These messages are shared across the PATA website and social media platforms as a tribute of our appreciation.