Ethiopia

Differentiated Service Delivery in Ethiopia

Facility-Level
Coverage

%

Percent of health facilities providing less-intensive DART models.

(1,354/1,425) of facilities are providing less-intensive DSD models. Source: 2022 CQUIN DART CMM self-staging results

% In Less-Intensive
Differentiated Treatment Models

%

Percent of people on ART who are enrolled in less-intensive DART models.

90% of people on ART have been enrolled in a less-intensive DART model. Data source: 2022 CQUIN DART CMM self-staging results

Multi-month ART Dispensing

20

%

Percent of people on ART receiving ≥ 6 months of ART at a time. 

54% Multi Month ART Dispensing are 6+ months. Data source: DHIS2 April-June 2022 Report

DART Model
Diversity

Number of groups for whom less-intensive DART models have been designed and implemented.

FBI, FBG, CBI and CBG are all implemented [over and above the conventional models of care]. Data source: DHIS2 April-June 2022 Report

Differentiated Service Delivery Implementation in Ethiopia

Ethiopia joined the CQUIN learning network in 2017. Prior to joining, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) had prioritized the scale-up of differentiated service delivery (DSD), launching a national program in October 2016 to focus on a single less-intensive model—the appointment spacing model (ASM) with six-month multi-month ART distribution (6-MMD).

Following an intensive pilot phase, Ethiopia’s ASM initiative was launched in June 2017 and is now available at 1,108 health facilities nationwide, 79 percent of all health facilities providing ART. As of October 2019, more than 194,400 people were enrolled in ASM, representing 87 percent of eligible recipients of care. CQUIN is partnering with ICAP in Ethiopia, FMOH and the Oromia Regional Health Bureau to conduct a qualitative study exploring facilitators and barriers to ASM enrollment.

DSD oversight in Ethiopia is provided by a technical working group of the National HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment team within the FMOH. Community engagement is also paramount to Ethiopia’s program, with recipients of care engaged in all aspects of DSD planning and support, providing regular feedback through formalized mechanisms, and contributing to the progress of Ethiopia’s DSD program.

These collaborative efforts have contributed towards the planning and rollout of additional less-intensive models launched in 2019, including community-based ART groups (CAGs) and a model tailored for adolescents with HIV. Ethiopia continues to scale up DSD implementation programs and has focused its lens on diversifying models and improving M&E tools to better understand how to reach recipients of care with critical medication.

Given the success of its Appointment Spacing Model – one of the first large-scale models to provide 6-MMD – Ethiopia hosted a south-to-south visit in 2019. CQUIN teams from Eswatini and Mozambique visited to learn more about the initiative and brought important lessons home to their colleagues.

Resources

Taking Differentiated Service Delivery to Scale in Ethiopia

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