HIV & AIDS

We’re committed to achieving an AIDS-free generation by 2030—and we believe health workers are the key to making this vision a reality. That’s why we focus on health workers and the systems that support them as we tackle each hurdle that remains between us and the end of the epidemic.

Our key approaches include:

Scaling up innovative HIV-prevention strategies, including provider-initiated testing and counseling, voluntary medical male circumcision, and gender equality in HIV services
Supporting comprehensive HIV/AIDS care through service integration, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, antiretroviral therapies for hard-to-reach populations, palliative care, and addressing gender inequalities, stigma, and discrimination
Designing national strategies to rapidly recruit and deploy health workers, strengthening national policies and guidelines, and supplying health-sector leaders with crucial health workforce information using IntraHealth’s iHRIS software
Optimizing the performance of health workers, organizations, and systems by applying IntraHealth’s Performance Improvement and Optimizing Performance and Quality tools

Selected Achievements

Provided voluntary medical male circumcision to over 579,000 men and boys in Tanzania, thereby reducing recipients' risks of contracting HIV through heterosexual intercourse by 60%.

Provided HIV testing and counseling to over 1 million people in Tanzania.

Provided training for 8,500+ health workers in Kenya to provide services in family planning, HIV, and maternal and child health services.

Trained health workers in Kenya to screen for cervical cancer among women of reproductive age, particularly those who live with HIV.

Established 230 mothers’ support groups for HIV-positive women at facilities in Ethiopia offering PMTCT services—the groups have increased uptake of antiretroviral prophylaxis (98% among pregnant mothers and 96% among infants).

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Selected Achievements

Provided voluntary medical male circumcision to over 579,000 men and boys in Tanzania, thereby reducing recipients' risks of contracting HIV through heterosexual intercourse by 60%.

Provided HIV testing and counseling to over 1 million people in Tanzania.

Provided training for 8,500+ health workers in Kenya to provide services in family planning, HIV, and maternal and child health services.

Trained health workers in Kenya to screen for cervical cancer among women of reproductive age, particularly those who live with HIV.

Established 230 mothers’ support groups for HIV-positive women at facilities in Ethiopia offering PMTCT services—the groups have increased uptake of antiretroviral prophylaxis (98% among pregnant mothers and 96% among infants).

Enrolled over 15,600 adults and children Namibia in antiretroviral therapy, including over 8,000 HIV-positive pregnant women.

Helped recruit 128 new health workers to address HIV in Namibia’s rural northern regions.

Educated 275,000+ people in South Sudan about HIV prevention.

Provided HIV testing and counseling services to 132,000+ people at 31 health facilities in South Sudan.

Helped recruit 730 new health workers funded by PEPFAR for high-volume HIV/AIDS treatment sites in Uganda.

Helped Uganda add over 7,200 new health workers to its health system by helping the health sector use powerful health workforce data to advocate for greater funding from the Uganda Parliament.

Provided HIV testing, counseling, and prevention services for over 400,000 people in Zambia via lay counselors; all clients that tested positive were referred for care and treatment.

Trained 300+ lay counselors in Zambia to advise clients living with HIV on adhering to their antiretroviral medication, avoiding transmission or re-infection with HIV or other sexually transmitted infections, and the proper use of condoms.

Improved health worker performance and HIV services in 58 hospitals throughout Central America using our Optimizing Performance and Quality tool.

Scaled up and built demand for PMTCT services in Ethiopia, including supporting PMTCT-MNCH service integration in 1,025 health centers—about 1.4 million pregnant women have received HIV testing, and thousands of HIV-positive women have received treatment.

Collaborated with Ethiopia's Ministry of Health to develop guidelines such as the training package for basic emergency obstetric care, a roadmap for safe motherhood, and plans to scale up Option B+ and eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

Established 230 mothers’ support groups for HIV-positive women at facilities in Ethiopia offering PMTCT services—the groups have increased uptake of antiretroviral prophylaxis (98% among pregnant mothers and 96% among infants).

Partnered with the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University to pilot the Pratt Pouch in Zambia, a drug delivery system that enables women who deliver outside of health facilities to administer antiretroviral doses directly to their newborns.

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Selected Achievements

Provided voluntary medical male circumcision to over 579,000 men and boys in Tanzania, thereby reducing recipients' risks of contracting HIV through heterosexual intercourse by 60%.

Provided HIV testing and counseling to over 1 million people in Tanzania.

Provided training for 8,500+ health workers in Kenya to provide services in family planning, HIV, and maternal and child health services.

Trained health workers in Kenya to screen for cervical cancer among women of reproductive age, particularly those who live with HIV.

Established 230 mothers’ support groups for HIV-positive women at facilities in Ethiopia offering PMTCT services—the groups have increased uptake of antiretroviral prophylaxis (98% among pregnant mothers and 96% among infants).

Enrolled over 15,600 adults and children Namibia in antiretroviral therapy, including over 8,000 HIV-positive pregnant women.

Helped recruit 128 new health workers to address HIV in Namibia’s rural northern regions.

Educated 275,000+ people in South Sudan about HIV prevention.

Provided HIV testing and counseling services to 132,000+ people at 31 health facilities in South Sudan.

Helped recruit 730 new health workers funded by PEPFAR for high-volume HIV/AIDS treatment sites in Uganda.

Helped Uganda add over 7,200 new health workers to its health system by helping the health sector use powerful health workforce data to advocate for greater funding from the Uganda Parliament.

Provided HIV testing, counseling, and prevention services for over 400,000 people in Zambia via lay counselors; all clients that tested positive were referred for care and treatment.

Trained 300+ lay counselors in Zambia to advise clients living with HIV on adhering to their antiretroviral medication, avoiding transmission or re-infection with HIV or other sexually transmitted infections, and the proper use of condoms.

Improved health worker performance and HIV services in 58 hospitals throughout Central America using our Optimizing Performance and Quality tool.

Scaled up and built demand for PMTCT services in Ethiopia, including supporting PMTCT-MNCH service integration in 1,025 health centers—about 1.4 million pregnant women have received HIV testing, and thousands of HIV-positive women have received treatment.

Collaborated with Ethiopia's Ministry of Health to develop guidelines such as the training package for basic emergency obstetric care, a roadmap for safe motherhood, and plans to scale up Option B+ and eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

Established 230 mothers’ support groups for HIV-positive women at facilities in Ethiopia offering PMTCT services—the groups have increased uptake of antiretroviral prophylaxis (98% among pregnant mothers and 96% among infants).

Partnered with the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University to pilot the Pratt Pouch in Zambia, a drug delivery system that enables women who deliver outside of health facilities to administer antiretroviral doses directly to their newborns.

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HIV/AIDS Overview

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