Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT)
of HIV Resources
Improving Retention, Adherence and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers
The “Improving Retention, Adherence and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers” is a resource recently developed by ICAP for adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa. The materials in this Toolkit are designed to aid multidisciplinary care teams in providing women, families, and babies with increased support for retention, adherence, and psychosocial wellbeing throughout the continuum of PMTCT care. The materials are intended to improve the knowledge, skills, and confidence of a range of professional and lay health workers within PMTCT programs, thus enhancing the scope and quality of services available to PMTCT clients and their families. In addition, the forms and guides included in the Toolkit are intended to support the development of the systems needed to successfully improve retention, adherence, and psychosocial wellbeing among all PMTCT clients. All of the materials included in the Toolkit are generic in form, and thus allow Ministries of Health, provincial and district authorities, health facilities and health workers, and implementing partners to adapt the content to suit specific programmatic and policy contexts.
Download Entire Kit (PDF)
Download Sections:
Cover Sheets (PDF/Word)
Tabs (section dividers) (PDF)
Foreword and Acknowledgements (PDF/Word)
Introduction (PDF/Word)
Adapting the Toolkit Materials (PDF/Word)
Trainer Manual (PDF/Word)
Module 1 Slides (PDF/PPT)
Module 2 Slides (PDF/PPT)
Module 3 Slides (PDF/PPT)
Module 4 Slides (PDF/PPT)
Module 5 Slides (PDF/PPT)
Module 6 Slides (PDF/PPT)
Implementation Workshop Participants Manual (PDF/Word)
Counseling Cue Cards (PDF/Word)
Counseling Checklists for HIV Testing (PDF/Word)
Psychosocial Assessment Guide (PDF/Word)
Adherence Preparation and Support Guides (PDF/Word)
Adherence Assessment Guide (PDF/Word)
Clinic Appointment Book and Appointment Card Templates (PDF/WordBook/WordCards)
How to Use the PMTCT Video (PDF/Word)
Video DVD Label (PDF)
Download PMTCT Toolkit sections available in French (PDF)
Toolkit sections available in French include:
Counseling Cue Cards
Counseling Checklists for HIV Testing
Psychosocial Assessment Guides
Adherence Preparation and Support Guides
Video: Saving Two Lives: A Patient Education Video on Adherence to PMTCT
More Tools
- PMTCT Standards of Care
- Pregnancy Planner for PMTCT
- Pregnancy Planner for PMTCT Guide
- PMTCT/VCT Site Overview Fact Sheet
- PMTCT/VCT Site Assessment Tool
- PMTCT Readiness - Rapid Site Assessment
- PMTCT Package of Care to Be Providing According to Health Facility
- PMTCT Counseling Cue Cards (Lesotho)
- PMTCT French Version: Counseling Checklists for HIV Testing, Psychosocial Assessment Guide, and Adherence Preparation and Support Guides
- Infant Feeding Technical Update (2007)
- Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV Infection (2007)
Websites
- PMTCT Counseling and Testing Support Tools (Women, Children, and HIV website)
- Scale up of HIV-related prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment for infants and children: A Programming Framework (produced by the Inter-agency Task Team on PMTCT; NOTE: Scroll down or click link for "Paediatric Treatment and Care)"
Publications
- REPORT: Creating Hope: The Story of the MTCT-Plus Initiative
INTERACTIVE: Creating Hope: The Story of the MTCT-Plus Initiative - REPORT: Third Annual PMTCT.Pediatrics Meeting: Final Meeting Report (2010)
- REPORT: Preventing Pediatric HIV Infections and Improving the Health of Women & Families (The USAID-Supported Expansion of the MTCT-Plus Initiative)
- Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnany Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Infants in Resource-Limited Settings: Towards University Access (World Health Organization publication)
- Expert Consultation on Operations Research on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and pediatric HIV care, support & treatment (2009)
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