This guide is an accompaniment to a job aid that the LIFT II team created. The job aid and guide were written following a qualitative assessment for the purpose of supporting service providers in delivering a standardized and comprehensive referral counselling experience for clients. Beginning with an explanation of the purpose of the job aid… View Article
Read more »The job aid is designed for use by 1) LIFT II referral volunteers (RVs) and field supervisors (FSs), 2) staff at NACS sites, and 3) the staff of organizations within the LIFT II referral networks (RN). The primary objective of the job aid is to improve the quality and consistency of referral counselling offered by… View Article
Read more »This commentary identifies the many gaps that exist in moving policy at global, national, and local levels to ensure that youth are being factored into the 90-90-90 goals in Africa. The authors identify the national policy gaps, the facility procedural gaps, implementation barriers–and specifically gender-specific implementation barriers–and gaps in family, community and social support for… View Article
Read more »The compendium presents the approaches and theoretical frameworks used by the projects, the quantitative and qualitative results, and looks more broadly at the potential for sustainability and lessons learned from these projects. Learning from the compendium are included in a companion document, “Guidelines on Best Practices for Adolescent- and Youth-Friendly HIV Services – An Examination… View Article
Read more »We know that adolescents bear a high burden of HIV risk in sub-Saharan Africa, but what do we know about the best ways to reach adolescents with youth friendly HIV services? MEASURE Evaluation reviewed the evidence from 13 projects and compiled documentation of the seven best practices, four promising practices, and two emerging practices in… View Article
Read more »This brief brings together the critical mass of evidence emerging from recent rigorous impact evaluations of government-run cash transfer programmes in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This brief summarizes the evaluation findings that social protection programs have economic and productive impacts for the economy, for the poor and for national development. A key lesson learned… View Article
Read more »Globally, countries are working toward achieving the goal of having 90% of people diagnosed with HIV on sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART). This has been difficult to achieve in PMTCT programs in sub-Saharan Africa owing to a variety of factors and while enrollment in PMTCT has increased under Option B+, which initiates all HIV-positive pregnant or… View Article
Read more »Adolescent orphans are a high risk group for HIV in Africa. Explanations and interventions are often focused on reducing sexual risk among adolescents. However these results show that maternal transmission is the predominant pathway of HIV transmission among orphaned adolescents. The results from this study are important in directing program attention toward reducing maternal… View Article
Read more »There are cultural and economic issues contributing to child marriage and this research contributes to an arsenal of evidence needed to make the cultural shifts and policy changes against child marriage. This paper quantitatively examines the intergenerational effects of girl child marriage, or the developmental and health outcomes of children born to women who marry… View Article
Read more »Testing is the first step to reaching 90% with diagnosis and 90% with treatment, yet there are so many reasons why children do not make it to a clinic to be tested for HIV. Community testing services are essential for reaching children, but what is the right way to reach the most at-risk children and… View Article
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