- Partner with the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) to contribute to the prevention, promotion, surveillance, control and management of priority diseases (both communicable and non-communicable disease) in Zimbabwe
- Engage, capacitate and empower communities to take charge of promotive and preventive health issues
- Develop appropriate community and formal health worker capacity to support universal health care
- Contribute to the body of evidence-based knowledge on health care through systematic collection and analysis of available health information, through
- implementation and biomedical research, networking and experience sharing
- Participate in policy development, advocacy and demand creation for universal health coverage
- Support implementation of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) and HIV services along the entire continuum of care in line with national guidelines
- Promote data use for decision making–supporting district health executives and facilities to use DHIS and other data to inform program strategie
Care & Treatment
In collaboration with the MoHCC, ZimPAAC works in 372 facilities in 17 districts deploying more than 800 skilled health care workers to meet the UNAIDS “95-95-95” targets towards HIV epidemic control:
- Ensuring 95% of all persons living with HIV know their status by providing integrated testing
- Ensuring 95% of individuals diagnosed with HIV are initiated on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and retained in care
- Ensuring 95% of people on treatment are virally suppressed
Zim-TTECH activities encompass:
- Building the capacity, skills and knowledge of health care workers through training and site-level mentoring at health facilities to strengthen health service by improving patient linkages between HIV testing, initiation on treatment, and retention in care rates.
- Working with health facilities to improve the availability and quality of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services through site support and quality improvement projects.
- Supporting public facilities to offer client-centered services to vulnerable and most at risk groups, such as key and priority populations.
- Increasing uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis services through training, technical assistance and direct client support.
- Conducting index testing through community linkages activities that help clients, and their sexual partners and biological children, access HIV testing.
- Providing community outreach to identify persons needing HIV services and linking them to HIV testing and treatment services, such as partner testing and tracking of patients lost to follow-up.
- Strengthening PMTCT services in alignment with MoHCC plan to eliminate mother-to-child transmission.
- Strengthening TB/HIV collaborative activities to ensure screening, prevention and follow-up of clients.
- Distributing TB preventive therapy for ART clients.
- Providing differentiated service delivery through multi-month refills, Family and Community ART Refill Groups.
- Increasing access to services for children and adolescents through Africaid’s Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS)
- Strengthening and expanding access to cervical cancer screening and treatment of precancerous cervical lesions for women living with HIV