INSPIRE Blog
Youth Voices at the Center: Reflections from the PATC³H-IN INSPIRE Annual Meeting in Lagos, Nigeria
By: Nomujuni Neale Natukwatsa & Aishat Adedoyin KoledowoFrom May 4–7, 2026, researchers, policymakers, implementers, and young people from across Africa gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, for the annual meetings of the Prevention and Treatment Through...
Designed for Scale: Winning Ideas to Accelerate Lenacapavir Uptake Among Youth in Africa
Photos by Tobi Ishola. Eight dynamic teams of research and community collaborators journeyed across Africa — converging on Lagos, Nigeria for the second annual INSPIRE Designathon Sprint. The energy was electric from the moment teams arrived,...
Strengthening HIV Prevention and Care for Adolescents and Young Adults Across Africa: The PATC³H-IN Network
Over the past few decades, the world has made major progress in the fight against HIV. Advances in prevention, testing, and treatment have transformed HIV from a life-threatening disease into a condition that can be managed with the right care and...
From Surviving to Thriving: The BeYOUtiful Mindz Movement
Written by the BeYOUtiful Mindz Team | South AfricaMore Than Just a Project For far too long, mental health conversations, especially among adolescents and young people, have been whispered in corners, shaped by stigma, or ignored altogether. But...
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...