USAID HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program (HCSP)

The USAID HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program (HCSP) is working to reinforce Rwanda’s health care system and expand access to HIV/AIDS clinical services in the USAID Northern Zone districts of Gasabo, Gicumbi, Nyagatare, and Rulindo. The program provides support for approximately 60 hospitals and health centers in HIV/AIDS clinical services and systems strengthening. The HCSP team is working toward two critical objectives:

  • Building capacity in national and district-level Rwandan institutions to support and manage Rwanda’s health networks
  • Expanding HIV/AIDS clinical activities and clinical service capacity for patient care in selected district health networks.

The program aims to meet its objectives through the following five strategies:

  • Ensuring clinical excellence by supporting decentralized clinical training, supervision, and quality assurance and an enhanced work environment
  • Extending services through innovation and integration related to offering mobile services, elevating the role of community caregivers, addressing infant feeding, and integrating HIV and family planning services
  • Linking with communities to increase access to services by extending professional care providers into the community and expanding community-health facility partnerships
  • Incorporating gender-sensitive and appropriate services through provider training, service improvements, male involvement, and increasing women’s access to information, income-generating activities and decision-making
  • Promoting leadership, management, and accountability through human resources strengthening; using data for management, decision-making and transparency; forming partnerships with the private sector; and financial accountability.

Partners on this IntraHealth-led program include the Ministry of Health; the Rwandan districts of Gasabo, Gicumbi, Nyagatare, and Rulindo; University of North Carolina Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases; and Mildmay International.

Contact: Christian Stengel, Chief of Party
P.O.Box 6199
Kigali, Rwanda

More information is available in the HCSP brochure.