Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2010 2011 2012

Details for Mechanism ID: 9390
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2012
Main Partner: University Research Corporation, LLC
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Private Contractor
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

No FY 2012 funding is requested for this mechanism.

URC will use FY 2011 funding in the MTCT, HTXS, HLAB budget codes to carry out activities remaining in its work plan designed to build the capacity of the Ministry of Health and AIDS (MSLS) to improve and monitor quality in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment activities at its health facilities.

Vehicles-Through COP11: 3-New requests in COP12: 0-Total planned vehicles for life of mechanism: 3

Funding for Laboratory Infrastructure (HLAB): $0

No FY 2012 funding is requested for this mechanism.

URC will use FY 2011 funding to carry out activities remaining in its work plan designed to build the capacity of the Ministry of Health and AIDS (MSLS) to improve and monitor quality in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment activities at its health facilities.

In the HLAB budget code, URC will:

-Organize a workshop for the validation of the national accreditation guide, accreditation tools, evaluation tools and coaching. This accreditation guide is currently being elaborated.

-Organize a workshop for the validation of a monitoring plan.

-Train laboratory chiefs involved in documentation (procedures, instruction, operational mode, etc)

-Organize coaching visits to sites involved in the quality improvement and accreditation processes

-Conduct lab assessments

-Organize a workshop for the presentation of the program results

-Train 12 evaluators for CRESAC (responsible for national lab accreditation)

-Organize a thematic workshop for the implementation of laboratory accreditation standards

-Strengthen CRESAC technical capacities

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT): $0

No FY 2012 funding is requested for this mechanism.

URC will use FY 2011 funding to carry out activities remaining in its work plan designed to build the capacity of the Ministry of Health and AIDS (MSLS) to improve and monitor quality in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment activities at its health facilities.

In the MTCT budget code, URC will:

- Organize three learning sessions for 61 PMTCT sites- Perform three coaching visits to 61 PMTCT sites- Set up a team of experts on community activities contributing to quality improvement for PMTCT- Assess community activities contributing to quality improvement for PMTCT- Organize meetings for the definition of community activity standards- Organize a meeting of community workers to review the standards- Test the community activities standards- Organize a workshop for the validation of the community activity standards

Funding for Treatment: Adult Treatment (HTXS): $0

No FY 2012 funding is requested for this mechanism.

URC will use FY 2011 funding to carry out activities remaining in its work plan designed to build the capacity of the Ministry of Health and AIDS (MSLS) to improve and monitor quality in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment activities at its health facilities.

In the HTXS budget code, URC will:

- Organize two ART learning sessions and conduct two coaching visits to 79 ART sites- Conduct a study on ART retention- Train staff of PEPFAR partner in quality improvement-Organize three learning sessions for 15 pharmacy collaboratives-Organize three coaching visits-Organize a workshop for the validation of good practices in the area of pharmacy-Provide two days training in quality process to 10 regional directors-Provide two days training in quality process to 20 health districts chiefs-Provide three days training in technical assistance to quality process to 20 regional coaches-Collect on a monthly basis onsite data related to quality activities-Produce quarterly reports on quality activities at the regional level-Set up a team on care of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)-Evaluate activities of care of PLWHA-Organize meetings for the definition of standards for care of PLWHA-Organize a meeting for treatment health staff to review the standards-Test the standards-Organize a workshop for the validation of the standards-Organize a workshop for the integration of quality into the National HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Program (PNPEC)-Organize three meetings for the follow-up of activities related to activities connected to quality in PNPEC programs-Evaluate the level of implementation of the quality in HIV programs in Cote dIvoire-Elaborate a toolkit for improving the quality of HIV programs

Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS activities and services
Child Survival Activities
Military Populations
Mobile Populations
Safe Motherhood
Tuberculosis