HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis

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Strengthening the health workforce is critical in the fight against HIV and AIDS, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where health worker shortages and the impact of AIDS threaten the ability of national health systems to function. A resurgence of tuberculosis, a common HIV coinfection, is making the situation worse in many developing countries.

IntraHealth collaborates with health care leaders, health workers, and communities to increase access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care services. Our key approaches include:

• Improving the performance of health workers in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and related health care services
• Designing strategies to rapidly recruit and deploy health workers to deliver HIV/AIDS services
• Bringing antiretroviral therapy (ART) services to hard-to-reach populations
• Increasing access to voluntary HIV counseling and testing for women and men, and to prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services
• Developing mothers’ support groups for HIV-positive women
• Addressing stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV
• Improving workplace safety to protect health workers against HIV and other blood-borne risks
• Integrating HIV/AIDS services with other health care services, including family planning and tuberculosis.

Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Panama, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia

Leadership: Karen Blyth, Director of HIV/AIDS Programs

More information is available in this overview and in IntraHealth Innovations in HIV/AIDS.

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Current related projects:

• The Central American Capacity Program
• Enhancing Client Access: Integrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services in Rwanda
• The Improving Access and Uptake of Routine Confidential Counseling and Testing Project
• The Namibia HIV Prevention, Care, and Support Program
• The Provider-Initiated Testing and Counseling (PITC) Project
• The Reduce the Impact of HIV in Southern Sudan Project
• The USAID Community PMTCT Project
• The USAID HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program

Previous related projects:

• USAID Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Project
• The Provision of Prevention and Awareness Services among Uniformed Cadres in the Fight against HIV/AIDS in Southern Sudan 
• The Southern African Human Capacity Development Coalition