NEW! HIV/AIDS Technical Brief

Chronic Care

• Technical Report: A Baseline Assessment of Self-management and Community Support for HIV/AIDS Patients at Four Facilities in Morogoro, Tanzania
• Supporting Patient Self-Management to Improve Chronic HIV Care and Treatment in Tanzania
• A Comprehensive and Patient-centered Approach to Improving Chronic HIV Care and Treatment in Uganda
• Improving Chronic Care Enrollment for HIV-positive Pregnant Women: Experience from Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
  

Cost-effectiveness

• Cost-effectiveness of improving services to people with HIV in Nicaragua
  

Expert Patients

• Research and Evaluation Report: Task Shifting in HIV/AIDS Service Delivery: An Exploratory Study of Expert Patients in Uganda
• When Patients Become Experts (The Global Journal)
• "Helping others to live healthier lives": Roles, Responsibilities, and Challenges of Expert Patients in Uganda
  

• Strengthening Health Management Information Systems at Uganda's Public Hospitals: SUSTAIN Project's Experience
  

• Strengthening the Health Workforce in Tanzania
  

• The Routine HIV Testing Project, Botswana
• Child and Adolescent HIV Testing and Counselling Programme, Botswana
• Increasing HIV Testing and Counselling in the Kingdom of Swaziland
• Increasing Provider-Initiated HIV Counselling and Testing in South Africa 

Injection Safety

• Promoting Injection Safety to Reduce Infections in Patients and Health Care Workers

In-service Training

• A Global Improvement Framework for Health Worker In-service Training: Guidance for Improved Effectiveness, Efficiency and Sustainability
  

Job Aids, Training Tools, and Counseling Cards

• Condom Usage
  
• La Verdad: ¿Importa con Quién Lo Haces?
  
• Uso Siempre y Bien un Condón en Cada Relación Sexual (Vaginal, Oral, y/o Anal)
  
• En Cada Relación Sexual, Usá Condón Siempre y Bien
• No Importa con Quien lo Vas Hacer
• Infant and Young Child Feeding
  
• Infant and Young Child Feeding with a Special Focus on HIV/AIDS
• Maambukizo ya Virusi vya UKIMWI na Ulishaji wa Watoto Wachanga
• Nutrition Integration
  
• Integrating Nutrition Into HIV/AIDS Care and Support Programs: Job Aides for Community Volunteers
• Integrating Nutrition Into HIV/AIDS Care and Support Programs: Training References for Trainers of Community Volunteers
• Comprehensive Nutrition Care and Support: Facility-Level Job Aids

Nutrition Integration

• Integrating Nutrition Interventions into Routine HIV/AIDS Care: Challenges, Solutions, and Lessons Learned from Uganda
• NuLife Highlights Brief: Food and Nutrition Interventions for Uganda

Palliative Care

• Improving Pain Management for People with HIV in Rural Uganda

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission

• Results from the Pilot Phase of an ART/PMTCT Improvement Collaborative in Cote d'Ivoire
• Improving the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in South Africa
• Assuring Infants and Mothers Get All PMTCT Services (AIMGAPS): Best Practices Emerging from a Collaborative Improvement Effort to Increase PMTCT Service Uptake in Tanzania
  

Provider-Initiated Counseling and Testing

• Provider-Initiated Counseling and Testing (PICT): An Overview (Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine)

Quality Improvement/Health System Strengthening

• Improving the Quality of STI and HIV Services in Guatemala
• Streamlining Equipment and Supplies Procurement among Laboratory Stakeholders in Uganda
• Feasibility of Using Quality Criteria to Monitor and Improve the Quality of HIV Services
• Increasing Stewardship for HIV Service Delivery by Improving Financial Management Practices at Public Hospitals in Uganda
  

Research and Evaluation

• How to Implement a Gaps Analysis Framework to Guide Quality Improvement in ART Programs
• Feasibility of Proposed Quality Criteria for Monitoring and Improving HIV Services

TB/HIV

• Spotlight: TB/HIV
• Improving Tuberculosis Treatment Completion Rates: Experience from Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
  

Vulnerable Children and Families

• Improving Care for Vulnerable Children in Kenya: Results from Piloting Service Standards
• Implementing Standards-based Quality Improvement Processes at the Community Level for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: The Strengthening Community Safety Nets (SCSN) Project, Ethiopia
• Improvements in Quality of Care and Support Services for Vulnerable Children in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania