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Contacts

Jennifer Mulik

project director                                      
jmulik@pactworld.org

Tom Ventimiglia

deputy project director 
tventimiglia@pactworld.org

Integrated solutions to advancing gender equality and reducing HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa

March 18, 2022
During International Women’s Month, and every month, we are reminded of the importance of women’s empowerment and gender equality in fostering human development. Access to quality and inclusive...
participants in a workshop in Tanzania

Developing capacity in Tanzania through coaching, mentorship, and participatory facilitation approaches

January 20, 2022
Pact’s experience with capacity development has taught us that the best way to support partners is to focus on the individuals within those organizations. We know that doing training workshops alone...
Boys exercising in a field

A team effort: Coaching adolescent boys on the importance of respecting women and girls

December 8, 2021
Life at home and at school for Burki, an adolescent boy from Kenya, used to be contentious. He would often show a lack of respect for his parents and teachers and, according to his mother, toward...
a boy with a hula hoop around him

World AIDS Day 2021

December 1, 2021
Pact has been working to stop the AIDS epidemic for decades. Our efforts to build up local responses to HIV to increase testing, treatment and prevention have made a difference in communities around...
An ACHIEVE education session on sexual and reproductive health with adolescent girls in Kanombe, Rwanda. Credit: Pact.

The ACHIEVE project: Two years of progress toward HIV epidemic control

December 1, 2021
With our consortium partners, including Jhpiego, Palladium, No Means No Worldwide and WI-HER, we’ve made critical progress over the past two years, in clinical outcomes as well as in HIV prevention ...
Girls play outside a DREAMS center in Lusaka, Zambia. Credit: Brian Clark/Pact

Leveraging digital technology to build a healthier future for adolescent girls and young women

October 8, 2021
In celebration of International Day of the Girl on October 11, the ACHIEVE consortium is excited to join the global community in recognizing the work that is being done to advance gender equality and...
An ACHIEVE community volunteer promotes Covid-19 prevention measures in a community in Santo Domingo. Credit: USAID

In the Dominican Republic, adapting critical HIV services for vulnerable families amid Covid-19

September 13, 2021
In March 2020, the first case of coronavirus was detected in the Dominican Republic (DR). From the onset of the pandemic, the Dominican government has followed World Health Organization guidelines,...

Achieving HIV epidemic control amidst a global pandemic

July 20, 2021
Despite the global Covid-19 pandemic, the ACHIEVE consortium has been committed to reaching our targets to control the HIV epidemic. Now in its second year, ACHIEVE –...
Female instructors demonstrate the "No!" action from the No Means No girls curriculum. (Credit: ProHealth International)

Pact-led ACHIEVE project adapts violence-prevention training for Covid-19

March 29, 2021
Nigeria has long faced a gender-based violence crisis, with 30 percent of women and girls aged 15-49 having experienced sexual abuse. The Covid-19 pandemic precipitated lockdowns, closed schools and...

Across Africa and beyond, HIV programs for orphans and vulnerable children provide a critical opportunity to respond to Covid-19

May 12, 2020
Imagine that a dangerous, highly contagious virus is spreading around the world, and you are tasked with helping communities challenged by poverty and marginalization to protect themselves. Imagine...

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