reduction of risk behaviours, and access to healthcare. Those initiatives were implemented by members of the SW and MSM peer group who were influential in eliciting behavioural change among their peers. A total of 25 MSM peer educators trained other peers to disseminate risk reduction information within their social networks. Among SW, six peer educators were trained and were integrated in a semiprofessionalized fashion on NGOs outreach teams in which individual goals and evaluation plans were designed collaboratively. Moreover, based on the connections built between these SW, a network of SW was established with the aim of recognition and valorisation of sex work in the country.

Also, new HIV testing strategies were collaboratively designed and developed by community partners aimed to improve access to HIV health services to subgroupsthat often did not access formal healthcare due to stigma and discrimination-related barriers. HIV testing was traditionally only available at formal healthcare services, but the knowledge produced from this project raised stakeholders\' awareness, especially policy-makers, towards the urgency of developing HIV testing strategies that would cover those most vulnerable and out of reach of existing health structures. Examples of such initiatives were the establishment of new proximity responses such as mobile units and community-based centres for HIV testing and counselling targeting those most vulnerable (including sex workers and injection-drug users).

In this interventional phase, adjustments to activities were required according to each area and population and often to organization/community partner. Several "subprojects" with specific implementation procedures and processes were created, which increased the project workload. Overall, the involvement and