Voices from the Frontline

PATA voices is a collection of frontline health provider stories, insights, and experiences. This page is for health providers by health providers. Frontline health 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 health 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.

Health Provider Champions

PATA’s Me and My Health Provider Campaign 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!

However, health providers are champions beyond this campaign. We are always looking for stories and insights into how health providers are #DoingTheRightThing. Share a story about yourself or a health provider that inspires you and select stories will be featured on PATA’s website and beyond.

Share your health 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.

Quotes from the Frontline

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Health Surveillance Assistant

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Lab Technician

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Senior Counsellor

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Clinical Care Coordinator

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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:

During the COVID-19 outbreak, PATA launched a platform to acknowledge and show support for frontline health providers. These messages were shared across the PATA website and social media platforms. Today, we can continue to show our appreciation and support for those on the frontline.