Filling the Gaps in Best Practices and Innovations for HIV Programming
16-17 May 2018
Theme 1: Community Health Worker Programs that Support HIV Prevention and Treatment Services
Theme 2: Reaching High Risk Men with HIV Prevention, Testing and Treatment Services
Specific Areas of Interest Include:
Theme 1: Community Health Worker Programs that Support HIV Prevention and Treatment Services
- Facility-community engagement to increase demand for HIV Testing Strategies (HTS) and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
- Community-based HIV service delivery
- Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol and substance abuse
- Successes in Ward Based Outreach Teams and other community structures
- Faith-Based Organizations and community structures mobilizing and shaping influential community perceptions related to HIV
- Monitoring, mentoring, and supervision to enhance qualitative and quantitative performance of Community Health Workers (CHWs)
- Active linkage of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) from community settings to facilities to initiate ART
- Active re-linkage for ART defaulters and Lost to Follow Up (LTFU)
- Care and support for patients on ART, including retention, adherence, and loss to follow up
- Educational services offered at adherence clubs, social services, and Centralised Chronic Medicines Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) pick-up points
- Training and mentoring for Community Health Workers
- Standardized scopes of work
- Care of the caregivers: Safety of Community Health Workers in communities
- Performance expectations and management of Community Health Workers
- Monitoring and Evaluation systems for Community Health Workers efforts
Theme 2: Reaching High Risk Men with HIV Prevention, Testing and Treatment Services
- Men’s health seeking behavior and demand creation
- VMMC, including HTS and linkage for men testing positive
- Optimized HIV testing and treatment strategies, including linkage to care, adherence and retention
- Same day, same site initiation in men
- Differentiated service delivery models
- Expanded access to ART
- Franchise models
- General Practitioner models
- Men’s clinics
- Workplace programs
- Addressing alcohol and substance abuse
- Linkages with other men’s health issues (NCDs, sexual and reproductive health)