Additional Key Benefits Leveraged by Coach Mpilo
| Rapid response | Coaches can be recruited in any community, trained in 4 days, and immediately deployed. |
| Low cost | Coaches are paid a modest salary and a transport/data stipend, and otherwise require minimal infrastructure or support. |
| Relieving pressure on clinic staff | Clinic staff can refer challenging cases to a coach. |
| Stigma reduction | Stigma is reduced among family and community members by providing living proof that a man with HIV can thrive on treatment. |
| Leveraging the power of peer outreach | Peer-outreach programs have been used in key populations programs for many years. |
| Putting men living with HIV at the forefront of the response | “Nothing about us without us.” |