AAPH is providing services include conducting facility Data Quality Assessments (DQA), Service Delivery Auditing (SDA) as well as data management and support on death audit data collection for the Afya Jumuishi+ HIV care and treatment project. Management and Development for Health (MDH) through Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding is implementing HIV care and treatment services in the regions of Kagera, Dar es Salaam and Tabora. The program is currently implemented across both facility and community levels to enable scaling up and provision of quality integrated HIV care services for the Tanzanian community.
Conducting research in Tanzania, specifically health research, requires coordination with local government officials following the acquisition of ethical clearances and approvals from NIMR and TMDA. This is because they have been placed to manage the affairs of the state and ensure the people’s safety. However, there is no clear guideline on how to engage these authorities and operationalize health research. To some extent, this may deter attempts to conduct health research by healthcare managers and providers. It therefore prudent to establish clear national guidelines that will remove ambiguities in the sub-national process of health research after attaining ethical clearance and approvals from relevant agencies. These guidelines will also goad healthcare managers to set research targets, as well as encourage and avail resources for implementation of health research among their ranks in order to solve local problems and ultimately achieve UHC in Tanzania.
A one-day workshop was organized and conducted in Dodoma under the leadership of the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC) with support from key stakeholders of Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) in Tanzania, November 22, 2021. The workshop brought together the said stakeholders to discuss one main agenda that was initiated by the MOHCDGEC on measurement of RMC related services in Tanzania. This workshop provided a prioritized list and implementation plan/ideas for measuring RMC service provision that selected for integration into routine HMIS/DHIS-2 indicators.
The Afya Kwanza & Afya Jumuishi programs aim at delivering comprehensive HIV prevention, care, treatment and support services in the following supported regions; Dar es Salaam, Kagera, Geita and Tabora.
Evaluation of Management and Development for Health (MDH) HIV/AIDS Programs.
AAPH is worked with its close partner Management and Development for Health (MDH) to conduct formal evaluation of its various ongoing interventions to identify the best models and key gaps that will inform improvement and increase program performance of its HIV care & treatment programs in Dar es Salaam and Kagera regions.