Indo-Pacific HIV Partnership

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Health Equity Matters in partnership with UNAIDS has been funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to implement the Indo-Pacific HIV Partnership program.

Program Objectives

  • Strengthen national HIV responses to reduce the burden of HIV in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia by 2028, along with targeted regional activities.

  • Health Equity Matters will deliver one component of this larger program and strengthen the leadership, advocacy and management capacities of regional partners to foster inclusive and diversified HIV responses.

  • We will undertake this work in Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

Health Equity Matters will focus on strengthening the capacity of two local peak body partners. 

  • These partners are the Key Populations Advocacy Consortium (KPAC) in PNG, and Pacific Sexual and Gender Diversity Network (PSGDN), based in Suva and with members across 15 Pacific Island countries.

    These activities will enhance the partner networks’ leadership, governance, advocacy and representative capacity, as well as their administrative and financial management.  Capacity building will support improved structures, policies, procedures and management systems. Tailored training and mentoring programs will equip KPAC and PSGDN leadership to assume more active and influential roles in public health responses.

    This will provide a stable foundation for these networks, increasing the confidence of governments and development partners to invest in them for community-led monitoring service delivery and other key activities in the HIV response. These collective measures aim to support the long-term viability of KPAC and PSGDN, and their continued influence and effectiveness beyond the project’s completion.

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Peak Body Partners