The PEPFAR Technical Working Groups for Care and Support, PMTCT, Pediatric Treatment, OVC and Nutrition hosted a Field Driven Learning Meeting for U.S. government staff and partners in Africa from November 8-10, 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The purpose of the three day meeting was to share promising practices and approaches to integrating HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for pregnant women, infants and their mothers, and pre-school aged children and their mothers. Specifically the workshop allowed for South-to South sharing of successes and challenges.

The focus of this meeting looked beyond providing a single service to these populations to address a single need. Rather, presentations focused on a combination of services that meet the continuum of health and social service needs of clients, both through facility and community interventions across a lifetime. Specifically, the meeting aimed to:

• Identify programs and approaches focused upon client identified needs and priorities which support a continuum of care approach to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health and social services for these target groups. The meeting will highlight evidence and evaluation findings of programs as well as innovations.
• Provide a forum for country programs to share innovations and promising programs focused on the provision of a continuum of health and social services for these target populations. These innovations/programs may address challenges in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs.
• Develop a catalog of PEPFAR-supported interventions that integrate facility and community based HIV and MNCH services around the mother-child dyad (inclusive of evaluation results, where available.)
• Identify 1-2 potential next steps for each country program to improve the quality of existing integrated services and develop innovative programs. These next steps may include proposals for implementation, further evaluation, South-to-South/cross-learning technical assistance, or other next steps not yet identified.
• Explore quality improvement opportunities and methods of routine monitoring and evaluation of integrated programs.

 

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Presentations