Urambo, NACOPHA to partner in monitoring interventions

Urambo District Executive Director Baraka Zikatimu has pledged to work closely with the National Council of People Living with HIV in Tanzania (NACOPHA) in their efforts to improve HIV response through Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) interventions.

This initiative, funded by USAID Tanzania through the Hebu Tuyajenge Project, aims to empower recipients of HIV services to collect feedback on the availability, accessibility, acceptability, affordability, and appropriateness of HIV services.

At a training session held at Urambo District Conference halls, where the goal was to enhance the skills of treatment advocates, Mr Zikatimu recognised and appreciated the valuable efforts of NACOPHA in carrying out HIV-related activities.

He expressed his commitment to working together with NACOPHA to enhance the standards of HIV services in Urambo.

“The CLM approach has proved to be an effective way of improving collaboration between council health management teams and PLHIV, as well as strengthening the relationship between PLHIV and facility staff where they receive HIV services.

Feedback from other councils’ shows a remarkable increase in the utilisation of testing services and ART, leading to an increase in the number of PLHIV with viral suppression” he said.

The implementation of CLM by NACOPHA and councils is guided by the National and Community Quality Improvement Frameworks as well as the UNAIDS strategy of Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV.

NACOPHA is grateful to PEPFAR/USAID for their support and to the councils for their strong collaboration in ensuring the quality of HIV services is improved.