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USAID RHITES-SW IMPLEMENTERS WHERE to FIND US REACH APPROACH the United States Agency for International Development's Regional APPROACH USAID RHITES-SW • Integrated supportive • Training health care workers to supervision visits, tools implement the highest quality services IMPLEMENTERS • Integrated workplans routed in globally-recommended and data reviews service guidelines • Shared promising • Integrated funding Our partners in RHITES-SW include Amref Health practices • Partnerships District National • Integrated Africa (AMREF) and the Mayanja Memorial guidelines & tools Support Support Hospital Foundation (MMHF). • Integrated data collection platforms • Improved Facility-Level Community • Integrated client flow Support Support outreach • Multidisciplinary • Coordination with management teams local partners • Expanded family- • Strengthened data centered care gathering • Integrated tools and IMPACT reporting REACH The United States Agency for International Development’s WHERE TO FIND US Regional Health Integration Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation to Enhance Services in Plot 7 Galt Road, Boma, Mbarara; Plot 15 Kitante South-West Uganda Project, Close, Kampala, Uganda Website: http://www.pedaids.org/country/uganda/ 2015-2020 This project was made possible by the United States KAMPALA Agency forInternational Development and the Ibanda Rubirizi Kiruhura Rukungiri Buhweju generous support of the American people. Bushenyi Kanungu Sheema Mbarara Mitooma Isingiro Ntungamo Rubanda Kisoro Rukiga Kabale EGPAF-supported regions Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS RHITES SW provides services in 771 health facilities in Foundation 16 districts ABOUT IMPACT of RHITES SW October 2015-to date The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) is lead implementing partner on this five- year project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The USAID HIV Prevention Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services TB in South-West Uganda Project (RHITES-SW) aims • Reached 2,918,986 people with HIV testing services, to enhance integrated HIV service delivery in including 590,536 pregnant women and 24,879 • Identified and treated 13,554 TB cases, including the aforementioned region. Activities under the HIV-exposed infants RHITES-SW project serve to increase the availability, those of 746 children below age 15 accessibility, and quality of integrated health services • Provided HIV prevention services to over 110,500 key including HIV prevention, care, and treatment, and priority populations; placing 2,521 on treatment as TB, maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH), prevention (pre-exposure prophylaxis) family planning, and other primary care services for • Reached 189,868 men with VMMC Ugandans in 16 districts in the South West (SW). MNCH Service Delivery Areas • Provided antenatal care services to 441,928 EGPAF’s Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV pregnant women Strategies Transmission (PMTCT) • Fully immunized 249,933 children below age five Nutrition District Maternal • Reached 476,540 pregnant and lactating women with Approach Health Malaria PMTCT services • Created access to ART for PMTCT among 29,029 HIV- Strategic HIV positive, pregnant and lactating women Integration Newborn and Child (HTC, C&T, TB • Averted 33,953 HIV infections Survival EMTCT, VMMC) Malaria Turning Evidence into • Treated 1,470,017 people for malaria, including Action Labs FP 221,429 children and 19,437 pregnant women HIV Care and Treatment • Provided malaria long-lasting treated mosquito nets and presumptive treatment to 325,184 pregnant and Results: lactating women 1. Improved service delivery • 62,525 people initiated on antiretroviral therapy (ART), 2. Improved quality including 1,619 children below age 15 3. Increased resources 4. Improved management • Approximately 91% of all people on ART through 5. Increased health behavior supported sites have attained viral load suppression.
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