On World Tuberculosis Day (March 24, 2021), Ciheb celebrates Botswana’s progress in combatting TB. Ciheb, through the Accelerating Botswana through the Last Mile of Epidemic Control (ABLE) project, is also helping to further that progress.
In Nairobi County, Kenya, health authorities have taken ground-breaking steps toward reducing the spread of HIV among people who inject drugs.
Tanzania has made considerable advancements in establishing national and integrated health information systems using the District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) platform.
Ciheb in Kenya staff working on the PACT Endeleza project have identified art therapy as a method to help child and adolescent people living with HIV to address psychosocial and emotional issues.
Ciheb in Kenya is leading a five-year smoking cessation study among HIV-infected people in Nairobi, Kenya. The study is examining how combinations of pharmacological and behavioral interventions may improve the chances of maintaining long-term smoking abstinence.
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People who inject drugs are a population who are at higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Since 2014, Ciheb has been helping to establish medically assisted therapy (MAT) clinics in Kenya to mitigate the adverse consequences of drug use and protect public health.
Nairobi City County has been an epicenter of Kenya’s COVID-19 outbreak. It is also where Ciheb's PACT Endeleza project supports facilities that provide HIV testing services. Read how we have responded to the pandemic to ensure continued services.
The Ciheb Zambia team was part of a group that developed a clinical decision support system to guide clinicians through each step of HIV care for pediatric patients.
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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has been working to support African Union Member States to rapidly detect and respond to COVID-19.
For five years, Ciheb has been helping strengthen Nigeria's disease surveillance and response capacity and has recently ramped up efforts in response to COVID-19.
Ciheb physicians have been developing clinical guidance for COVID-19 cases in Zambia, while also providing telementoring support to rural doctors and nurses and guiding a local group in manufacturing cloth masks for hospitals.
Ciheb Kenya has been supporting TB screening and referrals and laboratory capacity building. On World TB Day, a new screening algoritm was launched to help address TB burdens among schoolchildren.
The Boresha Maabara project has been supporting 108 laboratories in 10 Kenyan counties. The support includes facilitating comprehensive planning so that the labs are able to stay on track in meeting their public health objectives. Recently, the project facilitated a laboratory strategic planning meeting for Nairobi City County.
Ciheb brought the ECHO Project to Nigeria as a pilot initiative in 2018. Today, it is helping expand its utilization among other implementers.
Keumbu Sub-County Hospital is collecting and using data to guide service delivery. The results have been impressive.
To highlight the importance of communities in the global AIDS response, UNAIDS is celebrating this year’s World AIDS Day, December 1, under the banner “Communities make the difference.” Find out how Ciheb is helping support communities.