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. Over the next five years the program will provide support for up to 60 hospitals and health centers in HIV/AIDS clinical services and systems strengthening. The HCSP team will work 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 resource 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 Rwandan 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.