Integrated Network Combating HIV/AIDS in Tete - Phase 2 | ICRH

TEAM MEMBERS 

PERIOD 

PARTNERS

• Provincial Health Department of Tete, Mozambique
• Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Belgium
• Médecins sans Frontières - Belgium

OBJECTIVES

Main objective:

• The capacity of the Tete Provincial Health Department to provide quality HIV/AIDS/STI services is strengthened

Specific objectives:

• HIV transmission from mother to child is reduced in a context of improving reproductive health services for pregnant women and their newborns in Tete Province
• The improved STI care is consolidated and expanded to the whole province
• The capacity for management of HIV/AIDS services in the province is improved

ACTIVITIES

• Training and supervision of reproductive health staff
• Backstopping in case of interruptions in the supply of critical drugs or other supplies
• Monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the services
• Operational research
• Community mobilisation
• Peer education among high-risk populations
• Support of specific reproductive health services for high-risk populations
• Capacity building to improve the management of HIV/AIDS services at provincial level

EXPECTED RESULTS

• Improved HIV counselling and testing at reproductive health services in Tete Province
• Prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and other STI
• Improved follow-up of infants born to HIV+ mothers, including safe feeding practices and prophylaxis of opportunistic infections
• Improved family planning, in particular among HIV+ women
• Consolidated improved STI care in the areas supported during phase 1 of the project
• Expanded and improved STI care to the whole province
• Improved STI care and other reproductive health services for high-risk populations
• Improved capacity of the Provincial Health Department in the planning, coordination and monitoring of HIV/AIDS/STI services