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Stephan Rabimov Joins Mpact Board
LatestNews · August 17, 2026
Stephan Rabimov Joins Mpact Board

Marketing Executive Stephan Rabimov Joins Mpact Global Board to Advance Technology, Public Understanding, and HIV Equity San Francisco, CA — August 2026 — Stephan Rabimov, a senior marketing leader who has shaped public understanding of proof-of-human technology at Tools for Humanity (World.org), ha

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QueerVax campaign artwork
HealthJuly 18, 2026
Benefits of vaccinations for the queer community

Vaccines are one of the few health tools that protect a whole community at once. QueerVax exists because access to them still depends on who you are and where you live.

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Community health workers meeting around a table
AdvocacyJuly 5, 2026
PrEP access in Southeast Asia: what CHASE Phase 2 found

Country by country, the gap between a PrEP policy existing and a person being able to start it is where most of the work still sits.

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Right To campaign artwork
AdvocacyJune 18, 2026
ESA Networks: defending GBMSM rights in East & Southern Africa

Criminalisation does not only prosecute people. It reorganises health systems around the assumption that some communities will not come forward.

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Community members at an Mpact gathering
CommunityJune 2, 2026
Mérida Positive: growing support networks in Yucatán

What a peer support network looks like when it is built by the people who need it, in a city where the nearest specialist clinic is a bus ride away.

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Global Fund engagement campaign artwork
NewsMay 20, 2026
Global Fund engagement: what changed in the 2026 cycle

Meaningful involvement is written into the guidance. Whether it happens still depends on who is in the room when the country dialogue is scheduled.

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Get Your Copy of Anal About My Health Comics: Issue 1!
HealthMay 25, 2021
Get Your Copy of Anal About My Health Comics: Issue 1!

We believe real stories are the key to sex education, and our communities do best when they learn from their peers. That’s why MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights has expanded our award nominated Anal About My Health campaign into this series of comics on sexual health and harm reduc

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Getting to Know Andrew Spieldenner, MPact’s New Executive Director
NewsMarch 17, 2021
Getting to Know Andrew Spieldenner, MPact’s New Executive Director

As of March 1st of this year, Dr. Andrew Spieldenner has joined our team as the new executive director of MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights. We sat down with Andy to learn a little bit more about him, and to pick his brain about his vision for the future of MPact! […]

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