The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $110,000 project grant to Treatment Advocacy And Litera CY Campaign to implement the COMMUNITY LED MONITORING TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF HIV CARE IN ZAMBIA THROUGH CLIENT FEEDBACK project from March 1, 2022 to December 30, 2022. Under this award, Treatment Advocacy And Litera CY Campaign will work to improve HIV care quality in Zambia by establishing a community-led monitoring program that gathers client feedback. The grant is part of the...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Global AIDS federal grant program (CFDA 93.067), aims to accelerate Malawi's PEPFAR laboratory logistics and infrastructure for quality improvement. The $25,300,000 award to Ciheb Initiative LIMITED, a non-profit organization in Malawi, will support activities from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2029. The key products and services to be...
This federal Project Grant award of $709,872 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), aims to develop and test a couple-based intervention to address perinatal depression and improve prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV adherence in Malawi. The project has two main objectives: (1) to develop a couple-based intervention using problem-solving therapy and couple...
This Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs provided $120,179.59 to Ciheb Zambia LIMITED for community-led monitoring to improve the quality of HIV care in Zambia through client feedback. The grant was awarded on April 1, 2021 with a completion date of January 31, 2022. Under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Programs (CFDA 19.029), the grantee and three sub-awardees—Ndekeleni Development Foundation, Youth Development Organisation, and...
This Project Grant award, totaling $1,325,208.00, was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program. The grant funds a research study titled "Sequential Strategies to Reach and Reengage Individuals After Lapses from HIV Care in Zambia." The study aims to assess the effectiveness of different strategies for returning individuals with HIV treatment lapses to care and keeping them reengaged long-term. The key...
The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded Amref Health Africa HQ a $120,337.33 Project Grant under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Programs (PEPFAR, CFDA 19.029) to support community-led monitoring to improve the quality of HIV care in Zambia. The grant period runs from April 1, 2021 through January 31, 2022. Through this funding, Amref Health Africa HQ will work with trained community members in Zambia to collect client feedback on HIV care. The objective...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $710,187 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to adapt, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of the CARES adherence support intervention for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year project include: 1) Adapting the CARES intervention to...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs, provided under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program (CFDA 19.029), supports a community-led monitoring initiative to improve the quality of HIV care services in Zambia. The $104,988 award, granted on March 18, 2024, will enable the recipient organization, Family Development Initiatives LIMITED, to train local community members to collect client feedback on...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $15,221,142, was granted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Global AIDS program (CFDA 93.067). The award aims to develop, implement, and sustain high-quality comprehensive facility and community-based HIV 95-95-95 cascade activities for children, adolescents, and adults in Cameroon, under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Key objectives include increasing enrollment in...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $707,796 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to extend and evaluate the implementation and maintenance of the Malkia Klabu (MK) intervention. The MK program creates youth-friendly drug shops that provide HIV prevention services and contraception to adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa. This study...
SUSTAINING HIV EPIDEMIC CONTROL THROUGH EFFICIENT CASE FINDING AND QUALITY CARE AND TREATMENT SERVICES IN MALAWI - MALAWI HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST HIV BURDENS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, WITH AN ESTIMATED 1.07 MILLION PLHIV AND OVER 850,000 OF THESE ON ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (ART). MALAWI'S HIV EPIDEMIC IS COMPLICATED BY HEALTH SYSTEMS CHALLENGES IMPOSED BY LOW RESOURCES. OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES, THE COUNTRY HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS TOWARD HIV/AIDS CONTROL BEING ONE OF THE FEW COUNTRIES THAT ACHIEVED THE UNAIDS 90-90-90 TARGETS. MALAWI HAS ALSO MADE TREMENDOUS PROGRESS TOWARDS ELIMINATING MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV (MTCT) WITH TRANSMISSION RATE AT 6 WEEKS CURRENTLY BELOW 2%. DESPITE THE SUCCESSES, CHALLENGES REMAIN, WITH SEVERAL KEY AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS REMAINING HARD TO REACH WITH IMPORTANT HIV SERVICES. RETAINING PATIENT ON TREATMENT IS ALSO PROBLEMATIC AS LESS THAN 75% OF PERSONS STARTING ART REMAIN ON THE TREATMENT 12 MONTHS AFTER INITIATION. THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI'S PRIORITY HAS SHIFTED TO FINDING THE REMAINING PLHIV, STARTING AND RETAINING THEM ON ART. RIGHT TO CARE (RTC NPC) IN CONSORTIUM WITH LOCAL PARTNERS; RIGHT TO CARE MALAWI, DAPP, YONEKO PROPOSES A MULTI-COMPONENT EVIDENCE-BASED DATA DRIVEN PROGRAMME THAT WILL IMPROVE ACCESS AND UPTAKE OF QUALITY HIV SERVICES, EXPANDING THE COHORT OF PLHIV ON ART AND ACCELERATING PROGRESS TOWARDS THE ATTAINMENT OF THE UNAIDS 95-95-95 TARGETS FOR EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN MALAWI. THE CONSORTIUM'S APPROACH CONSISTS OF TRIPLE "A"- ASSESSMENT, ANALYSIS, AND ACTION, HELPING TO DELIVER INNOVATIVE EVIDENCE DRIVEN PATIENT-CENTRED, DIFFERENTIATED HIV SERVICES. THIS APPROACH IS EXECUTED THROUGH A HUB 'N' SPOKE STRATEGY, USING ROVING TEAMS TO PROVIDE SITE LEVEL TECHNICAL SUPPORT THAT INCLUDE TRAINING, MENTORSHIP, AND COACHING. CONTEXTUALLY ADAPTED INNOVATIVE VIRTUAL MENTORSHIP STRATEGY WITH THE AID OF VIDEO MEETING PLATFORMS ZOOM AND MICROSOFT TEAMS WILL BE USED BY RTC TECHNICAL SPECIALIST TO SUPPORT SITE LEVEL STAFF. THESE STRATEGIES WILL HELP TO DELIVER THE SET OF ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO RESPOND TO THE MOH PRIORITIES AS SET IN THE NSP 2020-2025 AS WELL AS THE OUTCOMES PRESENTED BY CDC IN THE PRESENT RFA. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE ONE OF THIS PROPOSED PROGRAMME WILL FOCUS ON IMPLEMENT EFFICIENT HIV CASE-FINDING STRATEGIES WITH IMMEDIATE LINKAGE TO TREATMENT FOR THOSE NEWLY DIAGNOSED WITH HIV AND PREVENTION SERVICES FOR HIV-NEGATIVE AT-RISK INDIVIDUALS. THIS IS AIMED AT FINDING THE REMAINING PLHIV TO BRING THEM INTO THE COHORT ON ART. IN STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE TWO, RTC CONSORTIUM PRESENT ACTIVITIES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN CONTINUITY AND QUALITY OF HIV CLIENT-CENTERED CARE INCLUDING LINKING NEWLY DIAGNOSED PLHIV TO ART, BRINGING BACK PERSONS PREVIOUSLY ON ART WHO DEFAULTED AND SUPPORTING THE USE OF DATA TO DRIVE PATIENT MANAGEMENT. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE THREE OF THIS PROPOSED INTERVENTION PROVIDE TRAINING, SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION, AND MENTORSHIP AT DISTRICT LEVEL TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONING OF PROGRAMMES TO LOCAL CONSORTIUM PARTNERS, RTC MALAWI, DAPP AND YONECO AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. THE DISTRICT HEALTH TEAMS AND MOHP STAFF AS WELL AS LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE SUPPORTED THROUGH CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES SO THAT THE PROGRAMME CAN BE SUCCESSFULLY TRANSITION TO LOCAL LEADERSHIP FOR MANAGEMENT. THESE ACTIVITIES CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT REFLECTION, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND RETHINK WHERE NECESSARY. FOR THIS, RTC WILL BE IMPLEMENTING ROBUST PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT USING ADVANCED ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES TO GLEAN INFORMATION FROM PROGRAMME AND PROVIDING TIMELY FEEDBACK TO BOTH SITE LEVEL STAFF, DISTRICT MANAGEMENT TEAMS AS WELL AS RTC PROGRAMME MANAGERS, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE.