CQUIN’s second annual meeting, “Fostering Scale Up of Differentiated Service Delivery to Achieve Sustainable Epidemic Control”, was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from November 5-7, 2018. The meeting enabled CQUIN member countries to review their progress towards DSD scale-up, share best practices and challenges, prioritize and plan for 2019, set new targets for DSD coverage, and describe their optimal mix of DSD models.
Representatives from the eleven network member countries (Cote d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) attended the meeting. Country teams included representatives from ministries of health (MOH), agencies and implementing partners of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and civil society. In addition, global and regional stakeholders included representatives from ICAP at Columbia University, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GF), CDC Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International AIDS Society (IAS), the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), Boston University, and others.
Also available with French and Portuguese Introduction and Executive Summary