INSPIRE Blog
Meet the 2026 Designathon Teams
This May, eight teams will travel to Lagos, Nigeria for INSPIRE's three-day Designathon Sprint to hone and pitch their ideas on scaling up lenacapavir (LEN) for youth-centered HIV prevention and care across Africa. These teams represent four...
Tugambe, Talk to Us
Written by: Patricia M. Nabifo, Ochen Eric, Kintu Timothy Mwanje, Raymond Bernard Kihumuro | Team Tugambe Tugambe is a word in Luganda that means "talk to us." The phrase captures a reality we kept missing in HIV clinics. Imagine this: a teenage...
The Fragility of Peer Power: What an IDP Camp Taught Us About Youth-Led HIV Outreach
Written by: Julianah Adebisi and Miracle Adesina | IMPACT Team, Nigeria.We didn’t notice it at first, but something had changed. Just weeks earlier, Zainab had become a major driving force behind HIV outreach in the camp. Young people were showing...
When Data Isn’t Enough: Listening to Youth Living With HIV
Written by: Damilola Ayowole, Temitope Oluwadare, Soneye Islamiat & Azees Ayotunde | Team Abeokuta, NigeriaWe have spent years working with numbers, prevalence rates, treatment coverage, viral suppression targets. Data shapes how we understand...
Meet the 2026 INSPIRE Course Cohort
Congratulations to our 2026 Appreciative Inquiry-Based D&I Course cohort for completing our five-week course — Innovative D&I Approaches: Appreciative Inquiry and Discrete Choice Experiments! This year's course focused on designing and...
Announcing the Phoenix Open Call Top 20 Winners: Voices Shaping the Future of HIV Service Sustainability
The Phoenix Open Call began with a simple question: how can we sustain HIV services in resource-constrained settings? From 422 submissions across 34 countries, powerful community-driven solutions emerged. Today, we are proud to announce the Top 20 Finalists
Beyond the Clinic Walls: Rethinking HIV Prevention Through Rural Drug Shops
In many rural communities across Uganda, young people rarely walk into hospitals to ask about sexual health products. Instead, they rely on community drug shops and trusted community care providers as their first point of contact for sexual health needs which may include HIV prevention services. Yet these accessible and trusted spaces are often excluded from formal HIV prevention strategies.
The Unseen Scars: Why Family Rejection Fuels Suicide in Adolescents Living with HIV
Family should be an unshakeable source of love, safety, and understanding for young people. After all, it provides the foundation upon which they build the resilience needed to face the world’s challenges. Yet, for far too many adolescents, home becomes the first place of rejection.
Under the Stairs: What One Conversation Taught Us About Invisible Barriers to HIV Care
Guest Authors: Monica Gbuchie, Ah’mad Akande, Fana-Granville Loizy | Team EqualCare, NigeriaWe met Ada during a community outreach program. She was seated underneath the stairs of the community townhall, keeping to herself, her crutches leaning...