Reaching Boys and Men

This short film explores how Health Policy Plus (HP+) collaborated with Malawi’s six religious mother bodies to implement PEPFAR’s Faith and Community Initiative (FCI) in eight of Malawi’s districts. Through FCI, religious leaders incorporated PEPFAR Messages of Hope—accurate HIV messages that correspond with religious texts from the Bible or Qu’ran—into their day-to-day work and community engagement activities. In this short film viewers learn more about how these trusted leaders are dispelling HIV myths and misconceptions and fighting stigma to increase acceptance of HIV services and treatment in their communities.