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Filling the Gaps in Best Practices and Innovations for HIV Programming
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February 14, 2022

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)

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