AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Zambia
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Zambia has been working to control the country’s AIDS epidemic since 2002, and has since formed fruitful partnership with the WHO, Humana People to People and local health programs like the Ministry of Health and the Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ). Currently, AHF Zambia operates in six districts throughout the country – Chikankata, Monze, Choma, Lusaka, Kitwe and Solwezi – where they provide treatment and care through five government/mission-supported sites and one clinic exclusively operated by AHF in the capital city of Lusaka. In 2009, a mobile testing program was introduced in the country, which allowed AHF Zambia to send mobile testing units (MTUs) into communities that were too far for people to visit clinics for testing, identify people living with HIV there, and support their linkage into care.
In October of 2013, AHF Zambia and Humana People to People agreed to collaborate on an effective outreach program in which trained providers visit communities in Zambia’s southern province and go door to door offering free HIV counseling and testing to every member of the household. Those who test positive are then linked into care with their nearest clinic. Through this program and other testing efforts, 90,394 Zambians were tested for HIV in 2013, of which 7,577 tested positive (an 8.4% positivity rate).
LOCATION: Chikankata, Monze, Choma, Chifundo, Meheba, Twatasha
RECENT TRAINEE PROJECTS:
–Worked with the government of Zambia on joint project with the Gates Foundation to find a tool to track resource flow and identify high impact interventions in national HIV/AIDS programming