On April 17, 2019, CQUIN hosted an interactive discussion on six-month MMS, featuring practical experience and lessons learned from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Zambia
From June 23-26, 2019, The HIV Coverage, Quality, and Impact Network (CQUIN) convened 165 experts in Nairobi, Kenya to address the issue of quality and differentiated service delivery (DSD). The workshop featured three keynote addresses, three panel presentations, four breakout sessions, and one tools lab, all aiming to enable CQUIN country teams to define DSD
Keynote Address Achieving Quality DSD: Recipient of Care Perspective Mr. Lawrence Khonyongwa, Executive Director, Malawi Network of People Living with HIV Parallel Breakout Sessions | Achieving Quality for Specific DART Models Breakout Session | Individual Country Team Strategies
Keynote Address Using Quality Improvement to Enhance HIV Services Mr. Ivan Teri, Program Optimization and Service Quality Improvement Advisor, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Panel Discussion | Quality Improvement Case Studies Program Quality and Efficiency in DC Implementation Ms. Maureen Inimah, QI Coordinator, National AIDS & STI Control Program, Kenya Using and Electronic Information System
Opening Remarks The Quality Imperative Dr. Miriam Rabkin, Director of Health Systems Strategies, ICAP at Columbia University The CQUIN Learning Network Dr. Peter Preko, CQUIN Director, ICAP at Columbia University Keynote Address A Big Picture View of Quality for HIV Services Dr. Charles Holmes, Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Global Health and Quality, Georgetown
Teams from Uganda and Zambia won the recent “Shark Tank” competition, which took place on the final day of the HIV Coverage, Quality, and Impact Network (CQUIN) and World Health Organization (WHO) workshop focused on opportunities and challenges that differentiated service delivery poses for TB/HIV services. Each team will receive modest funding for an innovative
Since CQUIN’s inception, M&E of DSD has been a top priority for member countries. In March 2018, CQUIN’s M&E community of practice rolled out the Differentiated M&E Framework, and ministries of health in at least six CQUIN countries have used it to guide the development of national tools and strategies for M&E of DSD.
In June 2018, CQUIN supported a team from the Zambia MOH to participate in a south-to-south learning exchange hosted by the Eswatini National AIDS Program (ENAP) and ICAP in Eswatini. What they saw was a revelation.
Many countries have shifted to three-month multi-month scripting (MMS), but few provide six months’ worth of ART at one visit. Ethiopia is the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to implement six-month MMS at scale and has learned lessons that can inform other countries as they adopt this approach.
Satvinder (Vindi) Singh, a medical officer who leads TB/HIV and quality of care within the HIV Department at the World Health Organization, reflects on the recent CQUIN and WHO meeting on DSD for TB/HIV services.
