Join ICAP’s Elaine Abrams, MD, for a CQUIN Network webinar, Wednesday, November 28th at 9:00 a.m. EST.
Jeffrey Walimbwa is an active member of CQUIN who advocates for the rights of marginalized groups to access health care. In partnership with the Kenya Ministry of Health, and with technical support from ICAP at Columbia, he’s conducting a survey to investigate barriers that community members face when they are accessing drugs or services at health facilities.
Analyzing data from Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania, the study team found a great need for innovative DSD models for persons living with HIV who have advanced disease. Chloe Teasdale, PhD, MPH, associate research scientist at ICAP and lead study author, discusses the study, which was published in the Journal of International Aids Society (JIAS) in December 2018.
In 2017, ICAP at Columbia University launched CQUIN. Over two years, the network has grown substantially and continues to receive strong support from ministries of health, implementing partners, recipients of care, civil society, and other stakeholders.
We sat down with Ruby Fayorsey, MD, MPH, deputy director of the Clinical and Training Unit at ICAP, to discuss ICAP’s compendium of Test and Treat All resources focused on HIV testing, starting ART in the era of Treat All, DSD, and the implementation of routine viral load monitoring.
In September 2018, CQUIN convened a three-day interactive workshop with DSD implementers from four countries in—Malawi, Eswatini, Uganda, and Zimbabwe—in Lilongwe, Malawi, focusing on the use of quality improvement methods to enhance DSD.
Join ICAP’s Elaine Abrams, MD, for a CQUIN Network webinar, Wednesday, November 28th at 9:00 a.m. EST.
Michael Odo, MB BCH, MSc, MPH, is the technical advisor for HIV care and treatment for the Department of HIV/AIDS, at the Malawi Ministry of Health. At CQUIN’s Science and Practice of Scale-up Workshop, Dr. Odo discussed Malawi’s successes reaching 90-90-90, the challenges ahead, and how CQUIN is helping the Ministry make the leap toward community-based care and treatment.
In February, CQUIN launched an online DSD community of practice designed to support DSD coordinators. Part of CQUIN’s diverse portfolio of activities to accelerate DSD scale-up, the community consists of ministry of health staff and DSD coordinators from 10 countries, who meet twice a month to share ideas on planning activities, discuss solutions to common challenges, and exchange tools and resources.
CQUIN recently supported teams from Eswatini, Kenya, and Malawi to visit Uganda on a joint south-to-south learning exchange hosted by the Uganda Ministry of Health National AIDS Control Program. From June 10-14, the teams visited The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), a pioneer in Uganda’s HIV/AIDS response. The exchange included three field visits to observe Community Drug Distribution Points (CDDP) and Community Client-Led ART Delivery (CCLAD) and facility based DSD models.
