Thanks to the tremendous outpouring of support from our generous donors, GAIA has served as a critical partner to the government of Malawi in the effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the three southern districts where we work since March 2020.

Our village-based outreach programs focus on health education, disease prevention, and proactive healthcare in the communities surrounding mobile clinic sites. GAIA’s Community Outreach Nurses extend the reach of our mobile health clinics’ into the communities, providing ongoing support for the most vulnerable clients and expanding HIV testing and counseling and ensuring initiation and adherence to treatment for people living with HIV. GAIA’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children program provides school supports, hygiene supplies, and food supplements for orphan headed households, enabling them to remain in school, rather than dropping out to work.

GAIA provides sexual reproductive health services that are youth friendly and help limit HIV transmission through our community-based HIV testing services and follow-up care. In 2020, GAIA Malawi leveraged its 15 years of experience working with high risk orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) to co-implement the Ana Patsogolo (Children First) Activity in partnership with the Bantwana World Education Initiative and USAID. Ana Patsogolo is linking OVCs and adolescent girls and young women living with HIV to prevention education, testing and treatment, social supports and wrap around health services to improve treatment initiation and adherence to ensure they thrive.