Community-based indicators for HIV programs: Presentation of a collection

The webinar will focus on a new online collection of community-based indicators for HIV programs.

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Join MEASURE Evaluation for a one-hour webinar on July 31, 2018, at 10am EDT. The webinar will focus on a new online collection of community-based indicators for HIV programs and will be led by MEASURE Evaluation’s Jackie Hellen and Dawne Walker.

Information from community-based health programs is important for understanding what HIV programs are doing to test, treat, and retain in care people who are living with HIV. However, until now there has been no centralized registry of community-based indicators to inform HIV programming at the community level.

In 2017 and 2018, MEASURE Evaluation mapped HIV community-based data elements—for vulnerable children, key populations, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, and prevention and outreach programs—to develop this collection of indicators for community-based HIV programs. The collection includes detailed indicator definitions and reference details, examples of data use for select indicators, links to additional resources, and a means to feedback and make recommendations. To develop this collection, we gathered data collection tools from implementing and governmental partners in Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Botswana to see what measures they use to monitor and evaluate HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs at the community level.

Use of validated indicators allows programs to measure if the beneficiaries of community programs are being assessed and tested, are receiving needed services, and if people living with HIV are adhering to treatment. Use of indicators also increases the likelihood that programs are monitored and that, therefore, more community data is reported into health information systems where they may be used to inform program, management, and service delivery decisions.

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Speakers

Jackie Hellen, MPH: Jackie currently supports the MEASURE Evaluation project in her role as senior monitoring and evaluation associate at the Palladium Group, providing technical expertise to the community-based information systems (CBIS) and orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) portfolios.

Dawne Walker, MS, MPH: Dawne is the senior CBIS advisor to MEASURE Evaluation, where she leads the project’s thinking around developing and implementing CBIS, documenting CBIS best practices, and developing new CBIS tools and guidelines where needed.

When Jul 31, 2018
from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Where Webinar
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Filed under: Community-based health information systems , Community , CBIS , Community-based , HIV
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