In the 9 districts PIH operates in 123 health facilities; these include government, CHAM and private health facilities where clinical and other support services are offered. PIH staff support provision of direct service delivery through HIV testing services, participating in ART provision, PrEP provision, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) management, Cervical cancer screening and management, Psychosocial Counseling and participating in the provision of several HIV services Differentiated Service Delivery models. Beyond the facilities, PIH also supports the national program in the development and review of HIV policies, guidelines and training curricula. PIH’s CORE clinical team also supports management of HIV drug resistance through a network of Clinical partners.
CORE project has a work force of close to 1200 employees, 75% of whom are Health Care Workers (HCWs) providing Direct Service Delivery in 123 facilities across the 9 supported districts. Direct Service provision is hinged on four (4) main domains; these include, HIV Counseling, Testing and linkage to care, Client retention and back to care services, Provision of high impact prevention services such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, and, availability of high quality service level data to inform programming. In addition, CORE supports minor infrastructure renovations, where need arises and provision of enablers to be used by service providers.
PIH has a Clinical Centre of Excellence, a public health facility called Moyo; it provides high standard free consultations and clinical care to the general public registered in the Malawi ART program. Services at Moyo CoE mirrors the domains described above; additionally, it also provides advanced Cervical Cancer screening methods and treatment, Hepatitis B screening and management, Integrated HIV and Non-communicable Diseases screening, treatment and monitoring, Integrated HIV and Older People living with HIV (OPLHIV) services, and, Drug Resistant TB screening and management, among others.
In collaboration with other implementing partners (IPs) in the various districts, CORE project also supports response to emerging outbreaks, such as Cholera, and weather-related disasters. See the link for stakeholders that PIH work with, in the HIV and TB space.
To see Client Oriented Response for HIV Epidemic Control (CORE 1) implementing districts and sites click link here
See also some of the open and closed projects below for Partners in Hope
