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Association Action Citoyenne pour le Développement — 2ACD

Pharmacies engaged against HIV

Mobilising community pharmacies for HIV prevention

Completed intensive awareness and training project in the District of Bamako, delivered with the Haut Conseil National de Lutte contre le SIDA (HCNLS).

Public health · District of Bamako — Mali · 11 March – 10 April 2026

HIV awareness in front of a partner pharmacy — Pharmacies engaged against HIV campaign

Pharmacy-based awareness as part of the completed “Pharmacies engaged against HIV” project.

  • HIV awareness in front of a partner pharmacy

    Awareness and prevention materials at a pharmacy.

  • Training session for pharmacy professionals on HIV

    Training of pharmacy professionals.

  • Community HIV testing and awareness day

    Community testing / awareness activity.

Context

Community pharmacies are a strategic contact point for HIV prevention and referral to voluntary counselling and testing.

2ACD designed and delivered a structured project covering training, equipment, awareness and referral, then produced a final narrative and financial report.

Objectives

  • Strengthen pharmacy professionals’ capacity in HIV prevention
  • Equip pharmacies to support awareness and referral
  • Raise public awareness and refer people to Voluntary Counselling and Testing centres
  • Deploy community formats (forum theatre) and mobile testing days

Intervention chain

  1. Prepare
  2. Train
  3. Equip
  4. Raise awareness
  5. Refer
  6. Test
  7. Monitor and capitalise

Phases

  • Phase 1 — Preparation

    Operational set-up, coordination and deployment of the delivery system.

  • Phase 2 — Capacity building

    Training of pharmacists and pharmacy assistants.

  • Phase 3 — Awareness

    Pharmacy-based and community formats, including forum theatre.

  • Phase 4 — Referral to VCT centres

    Referral of individuals to Voluntary Counselling and Testing centres.

  • Phase 5 — Monitoring, evaluation and closure

    M&E, capitalisation and final narrative and financial report.

Results in figures

Verified results from the final narrative and financial report. These indicators relate exclusively to this project.

  • 60

    Professionals trained

    Pharmacists and assistants

  • 30

    Pharmacies equipped

  • 8,240

    People reached through awareness

  • 822

    Referrals to VCT centres

  • 20

    Forum-theatre workshops

  • 10

    Mobile testing days

Performance vs targets

IndicatorTargetResult%
Awareness7,0008,240≈ 118%
VCT referral750822≈ 110%
Training6060100%
Pharmacies equipped3030100%
Forum theatre2020100%
Mobile testing1010100%

Partners

  • Haut Conseil National de Lutte contre le SIDA (HCNLS)

    Lead institutional and financial partner

  • Association Action Citoyenne pour le Développement — 2ACD

    Implementing organisation

Financial summary

Published soberly for accountability. Detailed ledgers remain internal unless cleared for release.

  • Total expenditure14,935,000 FCFA
  • HCNLS funding12,000,000 FCFA
  • 2ACD own contribution2,935,000 FCFA
  • Budget execution rate99.57%

Institutional capacities demonstrated

  • Project design
  • Multi-stakeholder coordination
  • Institutional partnership
  • Training and capacity building
  • Community health and behaviour-change communication
  • Territorial deployment
  • Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
  • Administrative and financial management
  • Capitalisation

Capitalisation & outlook

The initial project is completed and closed.

Gains (skills, pharmacy networks, methodology) remain capitalisable.

The experience opens prospects for replication or extension of the model — without implying an extension already underway.

Possible replication in other territories, subject to partnerships and funding.

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