EQUIP Health

The USAID Global Health Office of the US Global AIDS Co-ordinator partnership visit with the special guests Dr. Vamsi Vasireddy - Senior Technical Advisor for Clinical Financial Sustainability PEPFAR and Aaron Schubert - Team lead for health systems strengthening (HSS) at the Laudium Community Health Centre today.

Looking at service delivery, capacity building and health systems strengthening at this facility that provides services to over 13, 000 patients a year.

Global Collaboration, Learning, Sharing

As the International AIDS Conference comes to a close, we're absolutely inspired by our global peers. We shared over 30 presentations of EQUIP insights and results from our work in PEPFAR countries, and returning home with rich new insights. We're ready to get back to work, delivering technical assistance and services to Ministries of Health and local implementation partners, and helping reach UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets.

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Today We Focus On Zimbabwe at

✅ Donnely Magure, EQUIP Kheth'Impilo Study Coordinator, discusses stability criteria for getting into community ART groups.

✅ Frank Chirowa, EQUIP Central Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Manager & Health Economist, looks at costs and access of ART delivery.

✅ Terence Fusire, EQUIP Kheth'Impilo Technical Advisor, considers barriers to achieving the third 90 in .

In focus at International AIDS Conference: Access to HIV Care and Treatment. Dr Ntombi Sigwebela, Deputy Chief of Party at EQUIP shared the EQUIP Right to Care South Africa EQUIP experience in dealing with HIV in the migrant population that moves between Lesotho & South Africa.

Today at the International AIDS Conference - Dr Michael Marco, Head of Right to Care South Africa’s Scientific Program Planning, unpacks the experience in of tracing HIV-positive patients lost to follow up (and not yet on antiretroviral treatment (ART).

What does the Pharmacy of the future look like? Join Dr Thembi Xulu our Chief of Party at the Global Village at 12 for her talk “Pharmacy Automation: Pharmacy of the Future Now!”

Read more here: http://rightepharmacy.co.za/

We're joining over 15,000 global leaders, policy makers, researchers and advocates in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for the 22nd International AIDS Conference. Take part in the movement and register today! www.aids2018.org

AIDS 2018 > Home

Dr. Melinda Wilson - Senior Technical Advisor receives PEPFAR 15 year appreciation award. Photographed with Dr. Thembi Xulu - Chief of Party EQUIP & Prof. Ian Sanne CEO, Right to Care South Africa.

Dr Thembi Xulu, chief of party of EQUIP, the first African-led global consortium to deliver rapid scale-up of innovative HIV treatment and prevention solutions in Africa, is with Prof. Ian Sanne, CEO of SA’s largest health NGO based in South Africa, Right to Care, and Dr Wysler, the EQUIP country director in Haiti, Dr. Brian Brink receiving award for Best performance improvement through partner management award & Best achievement for VMMC award

This International Nurses Week EQUIP Health salutes nurses across 17 PEPFAR countries who are helping deliver rapid scale-up of innovative HIV treatment and prevention solutions through their dedication and care.

But first: Life Saving Treatment for Myanmar

The World Health Organization (WHO)'s first global study on HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) coinfection revealed that not only are people with HIV at much higher risk of HCV infection (on average 6 times more likely), but high-risk populations, such as people who inject drugs (PWID), have an extremely high prevalence of HCV infection – over 80%.

This is where the pioneering EQUIP program comes in for the country of Myanmar, one of our 17 PEPFAR countries.

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You don't need to wait to start treatment when you test positive for HIV. The sooner you start taking medication, the better. This is what Harry Chama from Zambia learnt when he tested positive in June 2017. Contact us if you want to know how HIV testing and treatment work.