HIV/AIDS

12 Mar Achieving and Sustaining HIV Epidemic Control with Better Health Workforce Data: Use of National Health Workforce Accounts to Achieve 95-95-95 Targets

Posted at 14:52h in Global, HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, National Health Workforce Accounts (3.3), Reports, Resources

This briefer provides an overview of National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA) and illustrates opportunities for PEPFAR and implementing partners to optimize PEPFAR investments through use of NHWA for better decision-making....

12 Nov Increasing Site-Level Staffing Levels: Does It Improve Site Performance?

Posted at 19:43h in Advancing Malawi's Health Workforce, HIV/AIDS, Malawi, Malawi Resources, Reports

In 2017, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Malawi received funding for the recruitment and deployment of health workers to selected PEPFAR priority sites located in areas with the highest HIV/AIDS burden. This was a welcome initiative in a nation working...

15 Aug Brief Series on Informing HIV Workforce Sustainability Planning: A Case Study from Uganda

Posted at 13:49h in Global Resources, HIV/AIDS, Leadership and governance, Technical briefs, Uganda Resources

Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, human resource challenges have hindered countries’ efforts to achieve HIV epidemic control. To accelerate access to the services needed to realize the 95-95-95 goals[1], the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other donors, such as the Global Fund...

23 Jul Health Workforce Assessment in Jakarta for Effective HIV Policy Implementation: Challenges and Opportunities toward Epidemic Control

Posted at 16:15h in Aligning HRH Competencies with Local Health Needs (1.3), HIV/AIDS, Indonesia HIV-HRH Assessment, Indonesia Resources, Other resource, Productivity and Performance (1.1)

This article was originally published in the Jurnal Ekonomi Kesehatan Indonesia, Vol 3, No 2 (2018) Of Indonesia’s estimated 631,635 people living with HIV in 2018, only 12 percent are on treatment. Strategic efforts are needed in Indonesia to implement the recently released HIV “Test...

01 Jul Donor-Supported Human Resources for Health Inventory Tool

Posted at 15:18h in Eswatini Resources, Global Resources, HIV/AIDS, Lesotho Resources, Namibia Resources, Performance and productivity, Tanzania Resources, Tools

What is the HRH Inventory Tool? To better understand the scope and nature of donor-supported investments in the health workforce, the Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) Program developed a tool to help countries inventory and analyze donors’ investments in health workers. The...

04 Feb Infographic: Back to Basics — The Botswana Experience with Community-Led Improvement to Achieve HIV Epidemic Control

Posted at 17:22h in Botswana Resources, HIV/AIDS, Other resource, Performance and productivity, Supporting HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Botswana

Botswana was one of the first countries in Africa to make HIV treatment available within its public health sector. According to UNAIDS, in 2017 84 percent of people living with HIV were accessing treatment. However, Botswana is still one of the countries most affected...

25 Jan Indonesia HIV-HRH Assessment: Recommendations for implementing and scaling up the Test and Treat policy

Posted at 23:05h in HIV/AIDS, Indonesia HIV-HRH Assessment, Indonesia Resources, Reports

In 2018, Indonesia's Ministry of Health estimated that 36% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Indonesia had been diagnosed as HIV-positive, 33% of whom were on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Strategic efforts are needed to achieve PEPFAR’s “90-90-90” goals: 90% of all PLHIV know...

12 Dec HOT4ART: A Tool for Optimizing HRH to Deliver more HIV Services through Task-Sharing & Scaling Up of Differentiated Service Delivery

Posted at 16:07h in Côte d'Ivoire Resources, Eswatini Resources, Global Resources, HIV/AIDS, Lesotho Resources, Mali Resources, Method for Standardized Use of Site-Level HRH Data (1.6), Performance and productivity, Resources, South Africa Resources, Tools

Updated April 2020: New tool version for rapid use and decision-making! Providing client-centered HIV care requires a strong, well-managed health workforce. In order to deliver effective HIV services—as well as to maintain essential HIV services during public health emergencies—it is important for health facilities, above-site stakeholders,...

12 Sep Webinar: Mobilizing Domestic Resources for the HIV Workforce — Estimating investment needs

Posted at 16:38h in Global Resources, HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, Making the Case for HIV/AIDS HRH Investment (4.2), Uganda Resources, Videos/Webinars

Webinar (August 28, 2018, 61 min): Sufficient financing of the HIV workforce is critical to achieving 95-95-95 targets and maintaining achievements. To ease health worker constraints, many countries have received donor support for health workers in providing HIV services. Greater analysis of the required...

31 Jul Generating Evidence for Investment in the HIV Workforce: Methodological Manual

Posted at 18:47h in Global Resources, HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, Making the Case for HIV/AIDS HRH Investment (4.2), Tools

As countries scale up access to HIV services, they will need to consider how to overcome human resources for health (HRH) constraints — including competing demands for health workers’ time — and to secure adequate, predictable funding for the HIV workforce. Ministries of health...