UNAIDS estimates that there are 870,000 new HIV infections among women and girls each year.1 Globally, adolescent girls and young women often lack adequate health care services; access to programs that prevent and address violence; and access to HIV/STI education, testing, and treatment.
I-TECH has worked to increase access and improve health care programs and services for adolescent girls and young women through innovative in-service training in Tanzania, supporting the build of a gender-based violence database in Kenya, building clinician capacity in the Caribbean region, and starting the DREAMS program in Namibia.
I-TECH Tanzania has implemented many pre- and in-service training initiatives and materials, as well as adopted TrainSMART. TrainSMART I-TECH Tanzania adopted TrainSMART, a database system created by I-TECH, to track health care worker (HCW) training, and has integrated TrainSMART with the national Human Resource Information System (HRIS). The TrainSMART system helps to ensure a strong and…
O’Bryan G, Chirairo H, Munyayi F, Ensminger A, Barnabee G, Dzinotyiweyi E, Mwandingi L, Ashipala L, Forster N, O’Malley G, Golden M. Assisted Partner Notification Services in Namibia: Comparison of Case-Finding in Persons With New and Previously Diagnosed Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and Success as a Platform for PrEP Referral. Sex Transm Dis. 2024 Mar 1;51(3):214-219. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001922
I-TECH began supporting the implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as part of Namibia’s combination HIV prevention strategy in 2017. I-TECH’s support for PrEP in Namibia is focused on three key areas: site-level direct service delivery support for PrEP for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW); site-level technical assistance to strengthen facility-based delivery of PrEP for…
As a key component of I-TECH’s support to HIV care continuum strengthening in Namibia, I-TECH supports the Ministry of Health and Social Services in efforts to achieve the UNAIDS target of “90% of people living with HIV will have a known status.” I-TECH supports above-site HIV testing activities at region-and national-levels, as well as technical assistance and…
