WHO's Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes (HHS) collaborates with the Global Fund on the Differentiated Services Delivery (DSD) Strategic Initiatives (SI), that incentivizes increased program quality and efficiency along the HIV testing treatment and advanced disease cascade, through promotion of best-practices, acceleration of country implementation and leverages technical assistance for the expansion of differentiated testing and treatment models and virtual interventions across the HIV cascade.
WHO is collaborating with FHI360, Mozambique Ministry of Health, Fundação Ariel Glaser and EGPAF to promote the sharing of best-practices and lessons learned on the use of community engagement approaches to improve HIV service delivery across the cascade, including DSD for HIV treatment models.
Webinar objectives
- Provide an overview of WHO guidance on community engagement principles, it’s uses for QA/QI, enabling factors, problems and considerations for integration in National QoC strategies.
- Introduce uses of community engagement approaches for QA/QI across the HIV continuum of care and for differentiated service delivery HIV treatment models.
- Share experiences from Mozambique and Malawi, two examples of programs that are in the process of operationalizing and that have successfully implemented community engagement as QA/QI practices across the HIV cascade and for DSD.
Agenda
Date: 6 July 2022 | Time: 15:00 pm to 16:00 pm CEST
The session is in English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Portuguese.
This webinar included:
| Session title | Presenter |
| Welcome and introduction | Clarice Pinto, WHO |
| Overview of community engagement (CE) principals for QA/QI | Asiya Odugleh-kolev, WHO |
| CE uses for QA/QI accross the HIV continuum of care and for DSD ART models | Ivan Teri, EGAPF |
| Technical assistance for the integration of CE in the national QOC strategy in Mozambique | Yara Paulo, QI focal point Ministry of Health, Orlando Munguambe, National QI implementation manager, and Helder Macul, DSD focal point at Ministry of Health |
| Engaging communities to ensure accountable and responsive approaches to improve quality of HIV service delivery | Meghan Dicarlo, FHI360 and Elizabeth Mpunga, FHI360, Malawi |
| Discussion with panelists | comoderated by Maureen Inimah, Ministry of Health, Kenya, and Baker Bakashaba, TASO Uganda |
| Closing remarks | Clarice Pinto, WHO |