As countries advance toward resilient HIV programs, there is increasing emphasis on prioritizing essential HIV services, informed by epidemiological need and economic feasibility. Integrating these prioritized services into routine health care is a critical strategy to ensure that essential service interventions are delivered more efficiently, reach people where they already seek care, and remain accessible over time. Service integration aims to optimize resource use, improve continuity and quality of care, and embed HIV services within broader health delivery platforms.
This webinar was designed to facilitate the sharing of experiences, practical lessons, and emerging approaches for integrating prioritized HIV service packages into routine health care.
- Download Slides
- English Recording
- French Recording
- Webinar Q&A
- Resource: Nigeria HIV Service Integration Checklist (Excel)
Background and Rationale
Shifts in HIV financing and new health cooperation agreements are accelerating the move away from parallel, disease‑specific programs toward more integrated service delivery. By embedding HIV services across different levels of care, from community to tertiary facilities, countries can strengthen continuity, improve efficiency, and enhance overall quality of health services. However, countries are at different stages of HIV service integration and face diverse challenges related to policy alignment, governance, health workforce, service organization, data use, and community engagement. Understanding how integration is operationalized in practice (including what services are integrated, how, when, where, and by whom) is critical to safeguarding HIV impact amid changing financing landscapes.
Objectives
- Highlight Ministry of Health leadership and coordination roles, including community engagement, in implementing integrated HIV service delivery.
- Examine and document country approaches to integrating prioritized HIV services within broader health delivery platforms in ways that strengthen health system resilience and optimize resource use, building on clearly defined, epidemiology- and cost-informed service packages and well-articulated integration pathways (who, what, when, where, and how) across the health system.
- Promote cross-country learning on practical strategies to integrate prioritized HIV services while safeguarding service continuity, quality, and efficiency.
 Expected Outcomes
By the end of the webinar, participants will:
- Clarify the roles and responsibilities of Ministries of Health, health workers, communities, and partners in delivering integrated HIV services.
- Gain insights into how integrated services are implemented across different levels of care.
- Identify where and when integration is most feasible and impactful, taking into account health system capacity, service readiness, and patient pathways.
- Recognize how integration could contribute to health system resilience, efficient use of resources, and optimized investment, particularly under changing financing.
- Generate actionable lessons to inform national planning, implementation, and future CQUIN technical support, including follow-up on monitoring and evaluation.