DSD for Key and Priority Populations
As countries scale up differentiated service delivery (DSD) for HIV, there are important implications for key populations—sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, transgender people, prisoners, and others.
Designing person-centered DSD prevention, testing/linkage, and treatment models that are attuned to the issues of stigma and access specific to each group will be critical to ensuring equity and achieving HIV epidemic control.
Meetings and Conferences
CQUIN in collaboration with the South-South HIV Prevention Learning Network (SSLN) held a virtual meeting focused on DSD for key populations (KP) with the goal of sharing current science and guidance; catalyzing the exchange of best practices; and supporting partner countries to improve the quality and coverage of HIV services for sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people and persons who inject drugs.
The four-day meeting was held on August 25-26,30-31, 2021.
Access meeting plenary, parallel sessions, Q&As, slide presentations, and more on the key populations meeting page here.
CQUIN held its second “community of practice” meeting focused on differentiated service delivery for adolescents living with HIV in October 2017.
The three-day gathering, held October 25-27 in Johannesburg, South Africa, brought together nearly 70 participants from all nine CQUIN countries.
Read more and access the meeting resources here
Webinars
In October 2020, CQUIN hosted a webinar on Optimizing HIV Services for MSM in Zimbabwe.
Access webinar resources here
Breakout Sessions
CQUIN Fourth Annual Meeting
In December 2020, CQUIN hosted its Fourth Annual Meeting, where the key populations CoP, hosted a breakout session on Differentiating HIV Services to Meet the Needs of Key Populations.
Communities of Practice
Launched in October 2018, the CoP focuses on building capacity for DSD-specific quality management, including the development of DSD-specific quality standards, indicators, and quality assurance (QA) tools, and exchanging resources to support quality improvement (QI) of DSD programs. The CoP enables network countries to contribute towards the scale-up of high-quality DSD programs by exchanging best practices related to DSD quality management; identifying opportunities to co-create resources, and working to strengthen networks of practitioners and policymakers to promote ongoing cross-country learning.
- 19 countries are actively engaged in the CoP
- Mr. Martin Msukwa, CQUIN Regional Advisor, is the technical lead, supported by Ms. Gillian Dougherty, Senior QI Advisor at ICAP New York, and Ms. Phephile Dlamini, Project Operations Coordinator from ICAP in Eswatini.
- In June 2019, CQUIN hosted an all-network workshop on DSD Quality and QI, and the network continues to explore each of the three elements of the classic “Juran Triad” as they relate to DSD – quality planning, quality assurance, and quality improvement.
- In 2020, the community of practice reacted to the lack of global and national quality standards for DSD by co-creating a DSD quality standards framework for less-intensive DART models; the English version is here and the French version is here.
- In 2021, the CQUIN Quality and QI Community of practice has developed and piloted quality standards for DART models toolkit in three countries. The tool is intended to serve as a generic and adaptable resource for stakeholders to assess and improve DART quality. The development and piloting processes are described here.
- In 2022, CQUIN will host an all-network meeting on DSD-specific quality management, support each member country to develop DSD-related quality management action plans, refine the Quality domain in CQUIN’s capability maturity model dashboard, and support an expanding portfolio of DSD-for-QI training initiatives.