{
  "abstract": "In February 2025, the Health Research Intervention Kuthamini Afya Yetu (HEKA) programme research partnership held a 3-day workshop as part of a project aimed at developing a framework for community-based participatory mathematical modelling of HIV epidemics.1 The project is led by the Community Research and Technical Support Hub—an emerging research-focused hub aimed at uniting key population communities in research, learning exchanges and knowledge translation—and brought together a consortium of programme managers and monitoring and evaluation experts from seven community-based organisations run by and for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) across Kenya, alongside academic researchers. However, on 24 January 2025, just 10 days prior to our meeting, organisations globally had received notices to ‘stop work’—interrupting decades of HIV prevention and treatment service delivery, supported through US funding.2 The announcement of the stop work orders had an immediate effect on GBMSM communities. We therefore catalysed part of our workshop to reflect on the impact of the orders on GBMSM community organisations and their members.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "ISHTAR, Nairobi, Kenya",
        "Community Research and Technical Support Hub, Nairobi, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Jeffrey Walimbwa Wambaya"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "HIV & AIDS People’s Alliance (HAPA) Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Fortune Ligare"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Health Options for Young Men on HIV/AIDS & STI (HOYMAS), Nairobi, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Jedidah Wanjiku"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "HIV & AIDS People’s Alliance (HAPA) Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Kennedy Mwendwa"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Men Against AIDS Youth Group (MAAYGO), Kisumu, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Kennedy Ouma"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Men Against AIDS Youth Group (MAAYGO), Kisumu, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Victor Digolo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "An Empowered Just and Inclusive Society (AMKENI) Malindi, Kilifi, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Gilbert Asuri"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "ISHTAR, Nairobi, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Charles Kyalo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Health Options for Young Men on HIV/AIDS & STI (HOYMAS), Nairobi, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Pascal Macharia"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Health Options for Young Men on HIV/AIDS & STI (HOYMAS), Nairobi, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "John Maina Wambui"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "An Empowered Just and Inclusive Society (AMKENI) Malindi, Kilifi, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Anthony Noah"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "ISHTAR, Nairobi, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Byron Odhiambo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Kenya Youth Development and Education Support Association (KYDESA), Nakuru, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Allan Ogalo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Men Against AIDS Youth Group (MAAYGO), Kisumu, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Kennedy Olango"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Q-Initiative, Eldoret, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Loice Nekesa"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Kenya Youth Development and Education Support Association (KYDESA), Nakuru, Kenya"
      ],
      "name": "Silvano Tabbu"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Nancy Tahmo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada",
        "Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada",
        "Department of Medicine and Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Sharmistha Mishra"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "College of Community and Global Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada",
        "Institute for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Robert R Lorway"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "College of Community and Global Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada",
        "Institute for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Lisa Lazarus"
    }
  ],
  "title": "The consequences of dismantling community-led HIV programming in Kenya: a call to action from the HEKA programme research partnership in Kenya",
  "uid": "35420c9a-07ad-5439-97b5-35617289d612"
}