India

I-TECH began working in India in 2003 at the Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine (GHTM) as a technical partner in capacity building activities benefiting clinical and program staff assisting the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO). Through an annual residential HIV fellowship program—funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and managed in collaboration with the Directorate of Medical Education and Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society—I-TECH provided clinical and leadership training to doctors.

I-TECH also played a key role in selecting, establishing and building the capacity of 10 Centers of Excellence (CoE) in HIV/ AIDS care under NACO, who is, in turn, responsible for providing technical mentoring and trainings to all 540 Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Centers across the country.

I-TECH India Private Limited (I-TECH India PL) was established as an independent entity in India in 2015 but remains closely affiliated with its longtime partner, the University of Washington. I-TECH India PL works with national and state governments and organizations to create robust and well-organized health systems through: better service delivery, capacity building of the health workforce, enhancement of health information systems and data quality, and formulation of guidelines and operating procedures.

I-TECH remains the lead partner to the Government of India and the CDC for implementation of HIV/ AIDS care and treatment activities in India. We support interventions at the national, regional, and site level, including online learning programs for health professionals in the Southeast Asia region. I-TECH India PL program activities are in line with the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets and focused on the “middle and third 95” through work in cluster regions of Maharashtra and three North Eastern states of Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram.

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Mozambique has one of the fastest growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the end of a 17-year civil war in 1992, leaders have worked to leverage country resources to build infrastructure and improve the quality of life for Mozambican citizens. Despite this promising growth, many public-sector programs are under-resourced, and much of the population still has limited access to quality health care.

With a population of 24 million, Mozambique has fewer than four physicians for every 100,000 inhabitants. More than 1.4 million people are estimated to be infected with HIV. The population also has high rates of tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases, malaria, and diarrheal diseases such as endemic cholera, all of which worsen the impact of HIV and AIDS when there is co-infection.

Drawing on expertise from its global network, including the University of Washington and the University of California, San Francisco, I-TECH began working in Mozambique in 2005. Since then, its technical support to the Ministry of Health (MISAU) has been focused on addressing the shortage of health care providers in the country through clinical training and curriculum revision and development. I-TECH also works to improve the quality of HIV prevention, care and treatment services, including antiretroviral treatment (ART) and voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). Ongoing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities, including technical assistance to MISAU, measure the effectiveness of health care programs and provide quality data for decision-making and program improvement.

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VMMC for HIV Prevention in Mozambique

I-TECH assists the Mozambique Ministry of Health (MISAU) to improve the quality, safety and performance of the VMMC sites through external quality assurance visits and mentoring of site staff. I-TECH has helped to design and conduct an evaluation of demand creation activities that were designed to motivate men age 15-49 ...
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