While multi-month dispensing for adults living with HIV quickly became standard practice during the pandemic, many providers were reluctant or unable to fully adopt the approach for younger patients. ![]() This innovative approach works to provide patients with three to six months of medication at a time. One part of the puzzle was solved by multi-month dispensing. ![]() ![]() The problem ICAP needed to solve was how to improve those numbers and get more young people living with HIV the care and treatment they needed amid the pandemic’s restrictions. In Burundi and Nigeria, only 31 and 45 percent of children living with HIV, respectively, were receiving treatment in 2020. ![]() Globally, 54 percent of children living with HIV have access to treatment. As governments worldwide responded to COVID-19 by mandating quarantines, health facility and school closures, and more, maintaining lifesaving HIV services became more critical – and challenging – than ever, particularly for young people living with HIV.
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