USAID Zambia Integrated Health is improving health outcomes for Zambians through equitable access to integrated, high-quality, client-centered services, products, and information.
The project will not only provide comprehensive HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support services for people living with HIV but will also integrate family planning, reproductive health services, and maternal and child health services. The activity builds on the achievements and milestones Zambia has achieved to date to control the HIV epidemic.
GOAL
Improve health outcomes of Zambians through equitable access to high-quality, client-centered HIV, TB/HIV, maternal and child health, and family planning and reproductive health services, products, and information, and to strengthen the integration of services to provide holistic, comprehensive care.
SEMI-ANNUAL KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
USAID Zambia Integrated Health works in Central, Copperbelt, and North-Western provinces. Achievements across the three provinces from October 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, include:
- Trained 170 health workers including midwives, nurses, and clinicians in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV.
- Connected 5,880 pregnant women with lifesaving HIV treatment to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV during pregnancy.
- Recruited, deployed, and trained 120 adolescent health community-based volunteers to increase uptake of health services among adolescents.
- Screened 34,696 women living with HIV for cervical cancer.
- Tested 473,259 adults and children for HIV. Of those who tested positive, 12,799 clients were linked to lifesaving HIV treatment.
- Provided 5,207 infants with a virologic HIV test.
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