Innovations

New initiatives and approaches are regularly developed to meet the challenges of HIV/AIDS and the needs of individuals and affected families. Some of these innovations include:

• Comprehensive Family Care Centers
• Pediatric Centers of Excellence for training in HIV/AIDS care and treatment;
• Tuberculosis/HIV Model Centers
• Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Centers
• South-to-South Partnership for Pediatric HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment;
• Clinical Mentorship Initiative;
• Nurse mentors program;
• Training for medical technicians and pharmacy assistants;
• “Fast-track” approach for program initiation in rural areas;
• Family escort systems to promote HIV testing and TB screening;
• Prescription cards for illiterate patients;
• Self-sufficient, patient-support groups;
• “Expert clients” to provide adherence counseling;
• Peer educators program to provide education, support, outreach, and navigation to patients;
• Tiered laboratory system providing state-of-the-art tests;
• Food banks;
• Income-generation programs;
• Solar-powered clinics and laboratories;
• Unifeid Reporting System;
• Computer-based systems for data collection and monitoring of program quality.