Addressing trust through digitally enabled community engagement approaches in HIV/AIDS

Overview

The coronavirus disease (‎COVID-19)‎ pandemic caused severe disruptions in HIV/AIDS programming and service delivery, negatively impacting Cambodia’s target of eliminating HIV/AIDS by 2025. The HIV care delivery model in Cambodia is based on the implementation of the Community Action Approach (‎CAA)‎, a framework that has been used since 2017 to improve access, linkage and retention of patients to comprehensive HIV care. Successful implementation of the CAA framework relies on the coordination and collaboration among multiple stakeholders across various levels of the HIV care and health system.

This case study was one of four country projects in the WHO Community Engagement Research Initiative, a multi-country effort that aimed to design, implement and research relationship-focused community engagement interventions in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.