Over the past two decades, South Africa has made significant gains in delivering HIV services to millions of individuals. However, challenges such as inadequate testing for at-risk persons and sub-optimal retention in care illustrate that human behaviour poses a "last mile" challenge to the HIV response. Behavioural economics offers insights for developing low-cost solutions, or "nudges", that can increase effectiveness of HIV services. Indlela is a first-of-its-kind "nudge unit" designed to strengthen the behavioural science capacity of implementers and researchers in South Africa and to support rapid testing of behavioural interventions. Indlela supports several HIV projects through co-design and impact evaluation of contextually appropriate, low-cost, scalable interventions to improve HIV outcomes. In this session, the Indlela team and key stakeholders will highlight the value of having a behavioural science unit to advise HIV programmes, share lessons and results from the nudge unit, and outline opportunities for further application of behavioural economics to the HIV response. During this session, Indlela also looks forward to the launch of the NUDGE Handbook, a practical guide for the application of behavioural insights to diverse health topics.

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