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Strong Lab Services Critical for the Scale-Up of Differentiated Service Delivery
In late 2017, the African Society of Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) launched the Laboratory Community of Practice (LabCoP) initiative to support lab systems strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa. Its initial focus will be on scaling up HIV viral load monitoring to achieve epidemic control. We spoke with Charles Kiyaga, MSc.; Pascale Ondoa, MD, PhD, MSc; and Legese A. Mekuria, PhD, MSc, MPH, about the crucial role that lab services play in bringing DSD to scale.
Coverage, Quality, and Impact of Differentiated Service Delivery: CQUIN at One Year
Video: Partnering to Advance Differentiated Service Delivery
Maputo, Mozambique—The HIV Coverage, Quality, and ...
Swaziland Leverages Lessons from CQUIN Partner Countries to Accelerate and Improve DSD Scale-up
Swaziland has taken a proactive approach to scaling up differentiated service delivery (DSD). Since joining the ...
Mozambique’s Road to DSD Scale-up – An Interview with Dr. Aleny Couto
Dr. Aleny Couto has spent the last six years leading efforts to curb Mozambique’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. As director of STI and HIV/AIDS Programs at the Mozambique Ministry of Health, Dr. Couto is in charge of designing public health policies and strategies to attain HIV epidemic control. According to Dr. Couto, differentiated service delivery is an important part of addressing the epidemic.
Perspectives on Differentiated Service Delivery – Dr. Nomthi Lukhele: “CQUIN Helps Us Keep an Open Mind”
Dr. Nomthandazo “Nomthi” Lukhele is the National ART Coordinator for Swaziland’s National AIDS Programme (SNAP) at the country’s Ministry of Health. Dr. Lukhele spoke with us about how differentiated service delivery (DSD) is changing the HIV care and treatment landscape in Swaziland, and about CQUIN’s role in helping SNAP explore new approaches to one of their top priorities: monitoring and evaluation (M&E).
CQUIN Support Helps Advance Differentiated Service Delivery in Zimbabwe
The network is seconding staff to ministries of health to spearhead the expansion of DSD at national scale. This is one of many efforts by the learning network to help partner countries in sub-Saharan Africa reach the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets and achieve epidemic control. Dr. Clorata Gwanzura, pictured here, is working toward scale up in Zimbabwe.
ASLM Launches Laboratory Systems Learning Network (LabCOP) in partnership with CQUIN
"At a recent meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) launched a new initiative called the Laboratory Systems Strengthening Community of Practice (LabCoP). LabCoP is a learning network of multidisciplinary country teams working together to create knowledge and share information, experiences and best practices."
CQUIN Countries Gather to Advance Differentiated Service Delivery for Adolescents
Johannesburg, South Africa – The HIV Coverage, Quality, and Impact Network (CQUIN) held its second “community of practice” workshop, focused on differentiated service delivery for adolescents and young adults. The three-day gathering, held from October 25-27 in Johannesburg, brought together nearly 70 participants from all nine CQUIN countries.
Perspectives – Dr. James Hakim on the REALITY Trial and the Future of Differentiated Service Delivery for Individuals with Advanced HIV
The University of Zimbabwe Professor of Medicine has been working on combating HIV/AIDS for decades. We caught up with Dr. Hakim at the CQUIN workshop for patients at high risk of advanced HIV disease progression to ask him about the REALITY trial, a study on advanced treatment for HIV patients in four countries that he and his colleagues worked on together. It is a testament to how far the fight against HIV has come.
ICAP Explores Differentiated Service Delivery Models for Adolescents Living with HIV
New York – With support from ICAP’s CQUIN learning network, a team of pediatricians from ICAP at Columbia University is working with the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) to learn from adolescents living with HIV about their preferences regarding care and treatment.
South-to-south Experience Sharing: Lessons from Kenya
Mbabane, Swaziland – At a CQUIN experience-sharing meeting hosted by ICAP Swaziland, Dr. Maureen Syowai from ICAP in Kenya greeted the Swazi and Zimbabwean audience with a warm “Sanibonani". Dr. Syowai skillfully conveyed her country’s experiences with implementation and scale-up of differentiated service delivery (DSD) to an audience of about 30 participants from ICAP Swaziland, the Swaziland National AIDS Program (SNAP), and the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC). Her presentation quickly blossomed into a lively dialogue with the audience, sparking new ideas for systematic and rapid roll-out of DSD.
Ethiopia Launches Differentiated Care Initiative Focused on Appointment Spacing
New York – As Ethiopia moves to a “test and start” approach to HIV treatment, the number of people eligible for antiretroviral therapy (ART) has greatly increased. In response, Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and its partners are exploring innovative approaches to increasing ART coverage, which UNAIDS estimates was 59 percent in 2016.
Archived Webinar: Male Engagement in HIV Services
September 19, 2017
Drs. Ruanne Barnabas and Monisha Sharma from The University of Washington in Seattle discuss strategies to strengthen men's engagement in the HIV care cascade in sub-Saharan Africa.
Archived Webinar: Differentiated Service Delivery at IAS 2017
August 24, 2017
Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, Director for Health Systems Strategies at ICAP at Columbia University discusses differentiated service delivery highlights from the IAS 2017 conference in Paris, France, July 23-26.
Mozambique’s Ministry of Health Observes “Bold Models” During South-to-South Learning Visits to Swaziland and Malawi
Mbabane, Swaziland – Gathered around an outdoor workstation in Mbabane, Swaziland, a team of clinicians and ...